Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 11:31     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Fries - pronounced Freeze

Henrico - Hen -RYE - co

Crozet - Crow -zey

Suffolk - Suf - f@ck (like Norfolk)

Massaponax - Mass-a-pon-AXE

Richmond - RICH - mun (I'm born and raised there, that's how it was said growing up)
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 09:20     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
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.



It was a woman’s last name. 1747
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 09:18     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Cat-hat-pin?
Or Cath-arpin?

I’m a local and I’ve never gotten this right.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 09:15     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

W&M?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 08:29     Subject: Re:How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote: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.


You’re mistaken, there IS a Shenandoah mountain. It’s part of the Appalachian along VA/WV. Blue Ridge Mountain is also part of the Appalachian and can be found as part of Shenandoah national Park, which may be the confusion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_Mountain
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 03:40     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Paso Robles is my favorite of these.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 03:07     Subject: Re:How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:None of these seem that complicated.

/NY and Boston person


True. No different from New Yorkers snickering superciliously when people mispronounce Houston St.

Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 02:29     Subject: Re:How to pronounce VA cities and towns
None of these seem that complicated.

/NY and Boston person
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 00:35     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:Assawoman?
Manassas?


You know there's a new town being built between Dumfries and Manassas.

Dumasses.

Don't forget to tip your waitress.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 00:33     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:All this thread is telling me is that Virginians are illiterate mouthbreathers who can’t grasp simple phonetics.


Bless your heart.


and he can't even come back with something humorous. You know he's from the polluted part of New Jersey.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2023 00:25     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Vienna?

VIE EE NA of course.


Uh, no.


Just the classy folk like me.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 19:58     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Say Shenandoah like senator but really fast
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 19:51     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Yes the county is Faw-keer.

The dorm at W&M is Faux-kee-ay. The above are all forms at W&M.


Taliaferro has been renamed: https://tribetrek.wm.edu/items/show/66
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2023 19:20     Subject: How to pronounce VA cities and towns
Don't forget Butt Hallow Rd off 81.