My personal favorite is Havre de Grace, Maryland -- HAY-ver duh GRACE.
When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2007 5:40:44 am PDT #5841 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - Aug 21, 2007 5:45:33 am PDT #5842 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Havre de Grace
There's a place in NS named Havre Boucher and the locals pronounce it "Harver Bushy."
Other great mangled pronunciations: Port Mouton = Port Ma-TOON, L'ardoise=LORD-ways
There is one place in NS that I have no idea how to pronounce: Necum Teuch. It's just down the road from Ecum Secum (EEK-um SEEK-um).
Ginger - Aug 21, 2007 5:51:36 am PDT #5843 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Atlanta Ponce de Leon = pahnce de lee'-on
shrift - Aug 21, 2007 5:55:24 am PDT #5844 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Because of where I grew up, I have an aptitude for pronouncing Indian place names and Polish surnames. Ypsilanti and Dowagiac and Wisniewski and Majewski!
beekaytee - Aug 21, 2007 6:02:28 am PDT #5845 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
"Harver Bushy."
Not sure why, but this strikes me as a Jossverse character name.
sumi - Aug 21, 2007 6:13:54 am PDT #5846 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
It does, doesn't it?
Either someone from Firefly or possibly more cowboy vampires.
Trudy Booth - Aug 21, 2007 6:20:07 am PDT #5847 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My family in Indiana pronounces "Terra Haute" as "tear ho" .
Hey, it's their state... but it always cracks me up.
sumi - Aug 21, 2007 6:23:51 am PDT #5848 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Isn't it Terre Haute? (Not Terra Huate)
Dana - Aug 21, 2007 6:26:22 am PDT #5849 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Someone remind me it's too early for lunch, even if I did get to work a half hour earlier than usual.
Sue - Aug 21, 2007 6:30:09 am PDT #5850 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I'm sorry, Dana, it's right about lunch time for me. I'm going just as soonas I figure out what's wrong with my Unforgettable Fire CD.
But the longer you hold out on lunch, the shorter the afternoon is.