Place Names That Sound Funny to Others.

[Thipu1]

You don't even want to know how my English teacher pronounced Arkansas

Oh, Melle.  Enquiring minds want to know.  (Gets out a soda and puts popcorn in the microwave).

[Danika]

You don't even want to know how my English teacher pronounced Arkansas

Oh, Melle.  Enquiring minds want to know.  (Gets out a soda and puts popcorn in the microwave).

Yes! I imagine it will remind me of the name of the seventh planet from the Sun.

[Slartibartfast]

You don't even want to know how my English teacher pronounced Arkansas

Oh, Melle.  Enquiring minds want to know.  (Gets out a soda and puts popcorn in the microwave).

Did it rhyme with Kansas?   

[Melle]

It kind of sounded like Dorothy had encountered a very stereotypical pirate in Oz. As in:

"Wherrrre ya from, matey?"
"Kansas!"
"ARRRRRR, Kansas!"

[mw8242]

I never found it weird because I grew up with them but in NJ we have towns called Brick & Wall. My friend from Texas finds it amusing we name towns after building materials.

[Thipu1]

I never found it weird because I grew up with them but in NJ we have towns called Brick & Wall. My friend from Texas finds it amusing we name towns after building materials.

My favorite NJ place name is Cheesequake.  I keep thinking of a tottering Stilton. 

[cabbageweevil]

It kind of sounded like Dorothy had encountered a very stereotypical pirate in Oz. As in:

"Wherrrre ya from, matey?"
"Kansas!"
"ARRRRRR, Kansas!"

With us Brits sometimes having problems with the way American place-names are pronounced: my uncle thought up a nice memory-aid for the pronunciation of Arkansas.
' The carpenter's wife wants him to listen to her, but to carry on with his work while he does; so she says to him, " 'ark an' saw".'

[Thipu1]

We had a French lady working with us for a while.  She insisted that Illinois (Ill-in-oy) should be pronounced 'Eel-known-wah'.     

In French that was fine but Illinois isn't French.   

[blue2000]

We had a French lady working with us for a while.  She insisted that Illinois (Ill-in-oy) should be pronounced 'Eel-known-wah'.     

In French that was fine but Illinois isn't French.   

That makes my head hurt. Shouldn't it be eel-een-wah? (If it was French).

[OSUJillyBean]

Living in former Native American territory, we get a lot of bizarre place names.  try these on for size:

Chickasha
Muskogee
Pushmataha
Okmulgee
Wewoka
Poteau
Talequah
Watonga

And of course: Why are there no more Indians in Oklahoma?
Broken Bow
Broken Arrow
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