End this family debate about the correct pronunciation of the last name "Saget"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't help you. We have several generations still working on
"worcestershire sauce".

oh god! my kid says "wore-chester-shire" sauce.

We say Woost-e-sheer

My dad used to call it “whats-this-here” sauce.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL I was from the South and thought my friends name was Beech um. Ummm it’s Beauchamp.

New Yorkers say HOW STUN instead of HEW STUN. Texans say HEW STUN.

No, both New Yorkers and Texans call the street in Manhattan HOWSTUN and the city in Texas HEWSTUN. Because they’re pronounced differently.[/quote

This is correct. Signed, New Yorker who has lived in Texas.

[Anonymous]

Well he's dead now innit

[Anonymous]

I knew a family who pronounced "Beaulieu" as "Boyer."
They deliberately got their own name wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In Missouri, we have Versailles, Lebanon, Nevada, Cairo, none of which are pronounced the way you'd assume.

I’m taking a wild guess here:

Ver-sales like car sales?

Le Banon (like Steve bannon)

Nev- Ada

Kay-row?

I put myself in mizzorah shoes, if I was an extra on ozark

Yes, except for Lebanon. It's LEB-nin. Or LEB-uh-nin, with the middle syllable barely there.

Ah that’s how they say it in PA as well.

Lebehnin or leb-in

[Anonymous]

Sea Goat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL I was from the South and thought my friends name was Beech um. Ummm it’s Beauchamp.

New Yorkers say HOW STUN instead of HEW STUN. Texans say HEW STUN.

No, both New Yorkers and Texans call the street in Manhattan HOWSTUN and the city in Texas HEWSTUN. Because they’re pronounced differently.

Wut?

Texans (Americans, generally) call the city in Texas HOO-STON. First syllable rhymes with blue, not few. The small town in Scotland is pronounced HYEW-STON.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL I was from the South and thought my friends name was Beech um. Ummm it’s Beauchamp.

New Yorkers say HOW STUN instead of HEW STUN. Texans say HEW STUN.

No, both New Yorkers and Texans call the street in Manhattan HOWSTUN and the city in Texas HEWSTUN. Because they’re pronounced differently.

Wut?

Texans (Americans, generally) call the city in Texas HOO-STON. First syllable rhymes with blue, not few. The small town in Scotland is pronounced HYEW-STON.

WHAT! So I’ve been saying HEWSTUN wrong this whole time?? You’re saying it’s HOO-STON, as in the word ‘who’ and then ‘ston’ as in ‘on’ (not ‘un’)?? Is this some kind of sick joke?

[Anonymous]

We knew a guy whose name was Joel, pronounced Jo-El, like he was Superman’s uncle or something.

Dude was from Florida and a total jerk.

[Anonymous]

I'd bet anything the name Saget was probably originally Zagat like the restaurant guide and got changed at Ellis Island.

[Anonymous]

Two things:

1) Houston, TX is not pronounced Hoo-ston. At least not by any of the many Texans I met while living in the state for years. It's Hew-ston.

2) Nobody's name got changed at Ellis Island: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-did-ellis-island-officials-really-change-names-immigrants-180961544/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew a family who pronounced "Beaulieu" as "Boyer."
They deliberately got their own name wrong.

I know Taliferios who say it "Tolliver." It's not wrong; it's likely a result of a Southern accent/dialect. Last names are pronounced the way the person whose name it is says they are.

[Anonymous]

Fun fact--it's Martin SCOR-Sez-e and that's his preferred pronunciation.

To my friend who keeps saying Gal Gadoh, it's Ga-dot. Just like it's spelled

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two things:

1) Houston, TX is not pronounced Hoo-ston. At least not by any of the many Texans I met while living in the state for years. It's Hew-ston.

2) Nobody's name got changed at Ellis Island: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-did-ellis-island-officials-really-change-names-immigrants-180961544/

My great grandmothers last name was a hard to pronounce so they put down her occupation instead for her last name which is how the name became Ballet. I’ve never met another one outside my family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two things:

1) Houston, TX is not pronounced Hoo-ston. At least not by any of the many Texans I met while living in the state for years. It's Hew-ston.

2) Nobody's name got changed at Ellis Island: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-did-ellis-island-officials-really-change-names-immigrants-180961544/

My great grandmothers last name was a hard to pronounce so they put down her occupation instead for her last name which is how the name became Ballet. I’ve never met another one outside my family.

Awesome! I have this gorgeous mental image of your great-grandmother fabulous in black and white-- am I right? Ballet Russes? Dramatic flight from the Bolsheviks in the 1920s?