US Cities You're Pronouncing Completely Wrong

Americans are quite expert at butcheringthe names of strange places , but alas , these crime are also committed everyday on American grease . Here are 20 metropolis in our OWN DAMN COUNTRY that you ’re probably mispronouncing . Please , for the good of the nation , get your shit together .

NOT: Lah-FEY-et

We purchase Louisiana from the French , and ofcourseproceeded to totally slaughter the Gallic orthoepy of this urban center . That ’s so us !

NOT: BOY-zee

Just to mess with you a slight more , its track – Les Bois – is pronounced " Lay Bwah . " Even weirder , Boise is a legitcool place to spend a weekend . A lot to excogitate over on this one .

NOT: Hel-AY-na

There are a infernal region of a lot forged property in Montana , but none that are this easy to mispronounce .

NOT: Wilks-BAR

Behold , a townsfolk in Pennsylvania name after the Golden State Warriors ' two good players from 1975 - 1977 : Jamaal Wilkes and Rick Barry .

NOT: La HOLLA

Yeah , and la - holloa at us if you ’ve ever heard someone call it " La JOL - LA . " Same .

NOT: KISS-a-mee

Good move with this one – otherwise their town name would vocalize like Super Mario trying to get to first base .

NOT: Nor-FOKE

But if you ask folks from Norfolk a question , do they answer " yea " or " naw " ?

NOT: Spo-KANE

C’m on people , you spo - canget this rightfulness !

NOT: WOR-ches-ter and WOR-sess-ter

This IS New England , however , so you ’ll probably take heed it call WUSS - tah . Or even WISS - tah .

NOT: LOUEY-vill

And it is emphatically not LOU - iss - vill .

NOT: SEE-kwim

Yes , it has a funny name , but they make up for it by being one ofthe good dang beach township on the West Coast .

NOT: See-NEK-ta-dee

The Mohawk kindred of the Iroquois Nation originally call this region " Schau - naugh - ta - da , " which means " over the pine plains . " Not any prosperous to pronounce , however .

NOT: Wah-KESH-a

… or Wah - KE$HA for that matter , even though when you ask people why they pronounce the name of the town like that , they ’re all , " We R Who We R. "

NOT: SALT-saynt MA-ree

Soooooo , it does n’t vocalize anything like it look ? Got it .

NOT:DES Moyns

… or DES - money , for that matter . Although , with a poppin ' Book of Job market and low cost of life , you’d be forgiven if you move thereand call it that , privately .

NOT: Scan-EAT-ells

If you say you know how to articulate this place , it ’s probably time toeatyour password . Sorry , I got nothin . '

NOT: Pat-cha-goo

right pronunciation of this place : yetanother thing you only know if you ’re from Long Island .

NOT: Poo-ya-lup or Pooh-Y’all-up

The second one sounds like what Christopher Robin probably articulate whenever he went into the Hundred Acre Wood .

NOT: Beth… um, followed by something else, presumably.

NOT: CALL-uh-ROD-o

OK , not a urban center , but for the commodity of America , it ’d be cool if you stopped screwing this up . Colorado is label Col - uh - RAD - o. Rad .

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