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Name a place that when people pronounce it you know if they are a from there. [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 OP

Please identify the area you grew up Effete Snob Feb 2022 #1

FYI, I'm not from Gallipolis and my mother's maiden name is NOYB! Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #6

Ah, Noyb! I grew up with some Noybs. From the Hamtramck Noybs? Effete Snob Feb 2022 #11

LaSalle-Peru, Illinois. raging moderate Feb 2022 #2

🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #7

Cairo, Ga. Chainfire Feb 2022 #3

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #8

Ditto for Cairo, Illinois. raging moderate Feb 2022 #12

and Cairo, NY also. Totally Tunsie Feb 2022 #63

and Milan, Ga. Pronounced "Mi-Lan" not "Mill-ahn" like Italy. NightWatcher Feb 2022 #45

Hoschton, Ga (Hoosh tun) Phentex Feb 2022 #96

Boca Raton, FL piddyprints Feb 2022 #4

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #9

Nawlins, La. Chainfire Feb 2022 #5

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #10

Stolen from google search but bottomofthehill Feb 2022 #13

🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #15

Incredible, all these phonetic exceptions in one state :) chia Feb 2022 #53

It's Massachusetts, that's not all of them. bottomofthehill Feb 2022 #76

I assumed as much. :) chia Feb 2022 #78

Gnadenhutten Alliepoo Feb 2022 #14

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #16

Didn't know that and I live in Ohio. Bellaire is Blaire doc03 Feb 2022 #32

And Lima Ohio is Lime-ah yardwork Feb 2022 #75

there's one of them in PA too nebby70 Feb 2022 #36

Mexia, TX. (nt) Paladin Feb 2022 #17

🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #19

The locals use the proper Spanish pronunciation. Paladin Feb 2022 #27

You beat me to it. My mother used to say it so I never mispronounce it (or would cuz I never see it) CTyankee Feb 2022 #77

And Palestine. n/t cloudbase Feb 2022 #30

Beaufort SC genxlib Feb 2022 #18

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #20

Sheboygan, WI Pobeka Feb 2022 #21

😏 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2022 #22

Worchester, MA sanatanadharma Feb 2022 #23

There's no "h" in Worcester. Totally Tunsie Feb 2022 #64

You are right and I ought to have known, growing up... sanatanadharma Feb 2022 #67

Ya' mean "Whu-stah"? Totally Tunsie Feb 2022 #69

You must be from Bhu-stun sanatanadharma Feb 2022 #84

Whatever you do don't look up Toll Booth Willie (Adam Sandler) on youtube. CentralMass Feb 2022 #81

Worcester, MA. CentralMass Feb 2022 #24

Boise padfun Feb 2022 #25

Minnesota Emile Feb 2022 #26

Presque Isle, Maine. LastDemocratInSC Feb 2022 #28

I hear some people call Presque Isle PA Press Q Isle doc03 Feb 2022 #37

Here's another one like that: LastDemocratInSC Feb 2022 #41

In Michigan Leith Feb 2022 #87

Luouavil, Kentucky Captain Zero Feb 2022 #29

Des Moines, Ia. Itchinjim Feb 2022 #31

Versailles Township cloudbase Feb 2022 #33

drat -- was just gonna post that -- nebby70 Feb 2022 #38

Great minds, and all that. cloudbase Feb 2022 #42

grew up there and still have my memories clumped together with a gum band nebby70 Feb 2022 #56

Me, too. cloudbase Feb 2022 #58

so if I told you ... nebby70 Feb 2022 #92

Concord NH sarge43 Feb 2022 #34

Central Pennsylvania Freddie Feb 2022 #35

I've been saying Utz's name wrong all this time. Totally Tunsie Feb 2022 #66

I think now that they've gone nationwide Freddie Feb 2022 #74

Lots of Ohio ones. Lancaster and Lima sinkingfeeling Feb 2022 #39

San Francisco lark Feb 2022 #40

Having been born in New Orleans Bucky Feb 2022 #61

When I went to grad school in Louisiana (moving from California) it was interesting to realize petronius Feb 2022 #89

Newark, DE woodsprite Feb 2022 #43

New Ark😹 we can do it Feb 2022 #94

Milwaukee. If from that area, the l is silent. BoomaofBandM Feb 2022 #44

Medina, Ohio EYESORE 9001 Feb 2022 #46

Beaufort, NC (different from Beaufort, SC) DinahMoeHum Feb 2022 #47

Pass Christian, MS DinahMoeHum Feb 2022 #48

Not a town but Bantamfancier Feb 2022 #49

Las Vegas Polly Hennessey Feb 2022 #50

Let me guess,,, femmocrat Feb 2022 #52

Duquesne, PA femmocrat Feb 2022 #51

Calgary AB ironflange Feb 2022 #54

I can name a place that when people give it a nickname, you know they're not from there. sakabatou Feb 2022 #55

Like how people from New Orleans don't ever say "The Big Easy" Bucky Feb 2022 #60

Or people who call San Francisco, "Frisco." sakabatou Feb 2022 #62

Boston, Massachusetts Emile Feb 2022 #57

Real Houstonians know how to drive from Kuykendahl Rd to Fuqua St w/o writing it down. Bucky Feb 2022 #59

Cairo, Georgia (pronounced like Karo syrup by the residents) csziggy Feb 2022 #65

Greenwich, CT. Totally Tunsie Feb 2022 #68

Prague, OK Behind the Aegis Feb 2022 #70

Hueneme...as in Port Hueneme CA Tikki Feb 2022 #71

Ojai and San Joaquin, CA Totally Tunsie Feb 2022 #72

Puyallup, WA Trailrider1951 Feb 2022 #73

Pierre, South Dakota frogmarch Feb 2022 #79

Buena Vista, Georgia Solly Mack Feb 2022 #80

That's close to home for me. tosh Feb 2022 #83

It is both unexpected and a surprise. Solly Mack Feb 2022 #85

Sequim, WA Angleae Feb 2022 #82

Are people actually *from* Sequim? I thought it was all retired Californians... petronius Feb 2022 #88

This message was self-deleted by its author DesertGarden Feb 2022 #86

Puyallup, Washington. Aristus Feb 2022 #90

Baltimore. Mr.Bill Feb 2022 #91

Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio we can do it Feb 2022 #93

Lewes, DE we can do it Feb 2022 #95

Houston County, Georgia JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2022 #97

Armada, Michigan. Also, Lake Orion, Michigan. JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2022 #98

Talliaferro County, GA (pronounced as Tolliver) CottonBear Feb 2022 #99

Houston Street in NYC. smirkymonkey Feb 2022 #100

Noo Joisey nt Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #101

Madrid, Maine bluedigger Feb 2022 #102

Ontonagon MI VGNonly Feb 2022 #103