Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:26     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:Boutetort is Bot a tot
Fauquier is Foe kee aye in Wmsburg
Talliaferro is Toliver


Fauquier is Fak-kier. DH grew up in Fauquier.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:25     Subject: Re:How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Fah-Keer

Furnt Roll
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:23     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:Boutetort is Bot a tot
Fauquier is Foe kee aye in Wmsburg
Talliaferro is Toliver


Say what now? How am I just finding this out?
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:15     Subject: Re:How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Stan-uhn

Buh-cannon

Boona vista
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:14     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:Buena Vista is Beau-na- Vista (like beau-tiful not bueno).


Good one.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:12     Subject: Re:How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Shenandoah is a river or a national park. There are no Shenandoah mountains!!! It's the Blue Ridge Mountains. And it's not Shannon-doah! It's Shenen-doah.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:09     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:wyth-ville how is this hard

Locals call it with-vile with a short i.

Staunton is pronounced Stan-ton.


That’s just stupid.


Stawn-ton is like nails on a chalkboard.


+1


It's Stan the man... not stawn.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:08     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Buena Vista is Beau-na- Vista (like beau-tiful not bueno).
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:07     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:wyth-ville how is this hard

Locals call it with-vile with a short i.

Staunton is pronounced Stan-ton.


That’s just stupid.


Stawn-ton is like nails on a chalkboard.


+1
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 18:04     Subject: Re:How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Wiffle
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 17:36     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:Norfolk?

Nor-Fuk


Nah-fuk.

Shen-doe Mountains

Buck-annon

Stan-ton, as someone else mentioned

The local pronunciations aren't wrong. As Joan Didion said, you're not a Californian unless you can mispronounce the Spanish place names correctly, and the same goes for Virginia, or anywhere else.

Quotsatana in Oregon is pronounced Ka-sayt-nee.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 17:25     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:All this thread is telling me is that Virginians are illiterate mouthbreathers who can’t grasp simple phonetics.


That's your takeaway.

Virginia has old names that have had time to settle into themselves and get comfortable. It's so British.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 17:16     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
All this thread is telling me is that Virginians are illiterate mouthbreathers who can’t grasp simple phonetics.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 17:04     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Norfolk?

Nor-Fuk


Naw-fuk if you’re really from here. Just don’t say -folk.


Thank you. Huge pet peeve of mine.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 17:04     Subject: Re:How to pronounce VA cities and towns
McClain, rhymes with the dead Senator. Not with lean. Or mean.