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Does he have Worcester, MA?
Does he have Puyallup, WA?
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 2:21 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
Does he have Puyallup, WA?
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 2:21 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
Is... is it Iowa all the way down?
posted by sparklemotion at 2:21 PM on May 26, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by sparklemotion at 2:21 PM on May 26, 2015 [6 favorites]
Complete fail on Versailles, Indiana.
It's pronounced ver-SALES. Honest.
posted by Thorzdad at 2:25 PM on May 26, 2015 [5 favorites]
It's pronounced ver-SALES. Honest.
posted by Thorzdad at 2:25 PM on May 26, 2015 [5 favorites]
Yeah, a bunch of them are willfully wrong. I assume that someone just wrote some kind of script to have a computer produce all of them. I really just posted this to MetaFilter for the "what the..." factor.
posted by roll truck roll at 2:30 PM on May 26, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by roll truck roll at 2:30 PM on May 26, 2015 [7 favorites]
It's a way to make money, right? Procedurally generate a shitload of youtube videos that are likely to come up in search results and enough will be viewed to generate some income...
posted by mr_roboto at 2:34 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by mr_roboto at 2:34 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
Always say Boy-see, never say Boy-zee.
posted by smartyboots at 2:34 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by smartyboots at 2:34 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
Wait a minute. What is the relationship between Dexter Guerra and Jesse Smith? I'm guessing they're hitting up against some kind of limit to the number of videos they can upload and need to split accounts.
Cool Papa Bell: "Does he have Puyallup, WA?"
"Dexter Guerra" doesn't, but "Jesse Smith" does. The amusing thing isn't how badly the robot does with "Puyallup" but rather how badly it does with "Washington".
posted by mhum at 2:36 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
Cool Papa Bell: "Does he have Puyallup, WA?"
"Dexter Guerra" doesn't, but "Jesse Smith" does. The amusing thing isn't how badly the robot does with "Puyallup" but rather how badly it does with "Washington".
posted by mhum at 2:36 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
I kind of want to get this guy hooked up with Jon, but Jon has that manually filmed je ne sais quoi that computers just can't generate. Yet.
posted by sparklemotion at 2:37 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by sparklemotion at 2:37 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
But are ALL of these places "a great place to visit?"
posted by bleep at 2:39 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by bleep at 2:39 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
Welcome to Western Washington. Good fucking luck, you scrub.
posted by ZaneJ. at 2:41 PM on May 26, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by ZaneJ. at 2:41 PM on May 26, 2015 [7 favorites]
We all know about Louisville, KY (loo-uh-vul) but have you visited Louisville, TN (loo-iss-ville)? How about Lima, Peru (lee-mah) and Lima, OH (leye-mah like the beans)?
-- Your obd't correspondent in Maryville, TN (mur-vul).
posted by workerant at 2:45 PM on May 26, 2015
-- Your obd't correspondent in Maryville, TN (mur-vul).
posted by workerant at 2:45 PM on May 26, 2015
Also it's "Orry" County, not Whorry" County.
posted by octobersurprise at 2:56 PM on May 26, 2015
posted by octobersurprise at 2:56 PM on May 26, 2015
Can we talk about those barbarians down in South Carolina who pronounce it BEW-furt?
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 2:58 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 2:58 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
roll truck roll: "Yeah, a bunch of them are willfully wrong . I assume that someone just wrote some kind of script to have a computer produce all of them. I really just posted this to MetaFilter for the "what the..." factor."
Half-life 3 confirmed.
posted by boo_radley at 3:00 PM on May 26, 2015
Half-life 3 confirmed.
posted by boo_radley at 3:00 PM on May 26, 2015
If you're looking for something more international, check out this channel.
posted by phunniemee at 3:07 PM on May 26, 2015
posted by phunniemee at 3:07 PM on May 26, 2015
Can we talk about those barbarians down in South Carolina who pronounce it BEW-furt?
As opposed to what? Beautiful Beaufort. Checks out.
posted by phunniemee at 3:08 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
As opposed to what? Beautiful Beaufort. Checks out.
posted by phunniemee at 3:08 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
In the better Carolina, the identically spelled town is Boh-furt.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 3:52 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 3:52 PM on May 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
NOOwerk, New Jersey vs. NEW-WARK, Delaware.
Shout-out to Metrorail riders: who among you cringes when the announced destination is GROVZ-nohr (Grovesnor)? Of course, the automated Metro announcement is for Friendship HAY-EIGHT station (Friendship Heights).
Back on point: the BBC (pronounced BEEB) will tell you how to pronounce the names of some American cities. smartyboots, you'll have to let them know what's what when it comes to Boise.
posted by datawrangler at 4:10 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
Shout-out to Metrorail riders: who among you cringes when the announced destination is GROVZ-nohr (Grovesnor)? Of course, the automated Metro announcement is for Friendship HAY-EIGHT station (Friendship Heights).
Back on point: the BBC (pronounced BEEB) will tell you how to pronounce the names of some American cities. smartyboots, you'll have to let them know what's what when it comes to Boise.
posted by datawrangler at 4:10 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
Link seems to go to the W's in Iowa. So of course ya gotta check What Cheer. Nope, it's pronounced "Watcher."
posted by rlk at 4:38 PM on May 26, 2015
posted by rlk at 4:38 PM on May 26, 2015
Whenever I talk to someone located in Indiana and they have to say the name of my city, it always comes out "Min-nee-an-ap-olis". No idea what's up with that. Do I call it "Indyapolis"? No, I do not.
posted by Ickster at 4:41 PM on May 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Ickster at 4:41 PM on May 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
Ickster, I grew up in Indianapolis and have never once (mis)pronounced, nor did I growing up ever hear anyone mispronounce, the name of your city in the way you describe. Not that I put such barbarity below some of the Hoosier cohort, but really? How strange.
All of that just to relate the following. Anyone from Indianapolis is familiar with the Mexican restaurant Acapulco Joe's. Even before any real Mexican population evolved there (nowadays fairly significant), Acapulco Joe was slinging pseudo-Mexican fair downtown and, for a while at least, on the far northeast side of town. LEGEND HAS IT that Joe(se) came to Indianapolis in the 1950s by bus, and that he was trying to emigrate to Minneapolis but mispronounced the name and wound up in Indianapolis. Could not afford another bus ticket, so history was made. If that is apocryphal, I don't want to know the truth.
posted by JimInLoganSquare at 5:04 PM on May 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
All of that just to relate the following. Anyone from Indianapolis is familiar with the Mexican restaurant Acapulco Joe's. Even before any real Mexican population evolved there (nowadays fairly significant), Acapulco Joe was slinging pseudo-Mexican fair downtown and, for a while at least, on the far northeast side of town. LEGEND HAS IT that Joe(se) came to Indianapolis in the 1950s by bus, and that he was trying to emigrate to Minneapolis but mispronounced the name and wound up in Indianapolis. Could not afford another bus ticket, so history was made. If that is apocryphal, I don't want to know the truth.
posted by JimInLoganSquare at 5:04 PM on May 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
Oh, also, "Indianapolis" is pronounced "In-d'yn-aplis" when you are just saying it and trying to get that awful mouthful of a name expressed. You pronounce it "In-dee-uhn-a-poe-liss" when talking to a magazine subscription taker on the phone.
posted by JimInLoganSquare at 5:10 PM on May 26, 2015
posted by JimInLoganSquare at 5:10 PM on May 26, 2015
DuBois, Pennsylvania. Pronounced DOO-boys, not Do BOYS as that fool computer says. Trust me I live not far from there. And I'm old enough to remember a brand of local beer (disappeared in the 1960's) called DOO Boys BUD wiser. Budwiser, you see was a type of beer before it was a brand name, so Anheuser Busch could do nothing about it.
posted by tommyD at 6:54 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by tommyD at 6:54 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
that is NOT how you pronounce Nevada, Iowa.
Just like Cairo, Illinois, it's pronounced neh-VAY-da. No one knows why, it's just one of those shibboleths.
posted by ArgentCorvid at 7:43 PM on May 26, 2015
Just like Cairo, Illinois, it's pronounced neh-VAY-da. No one knows why, it's just one of those shibboleths.
posted by ArgentCorvid at 7:43 PM on May 26, 2015
Ooh, do Massachusetts next!
Americans Try To Pronounce Massachusetts Towns
(I still think Billerica, pronounced with three syllables, is an elaborate troll perpetuated by townies on the rest of the unsuspecting state)
posted by Mayor West at 5:12 AM on May 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
Americans Try To Pronounce Massachusetts Towns
(I still think Billerica, pronounced with three syllables, is an elaborate troll perpetuated by townies on the rest of the unsuspecting state)
posted by Mayor West at 5:12 AM on May 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
Just like Cairo, Illinois, it's pronounced neh-VAY-da.
Cairo, IL, is pronounced "neh-VAY-da"? That's just crazy.
posted by aught at 8:53 AM on May 27, 2015
Cairo, IL, is pronounced "neh-VAY-da"? That's just crazy.
posted by aught at 8:53 AM on May 27, 2015
The capital city of South Dakota is pronounced "peer".
Because South Dakota.
posted by MrJM at 9:31 AM on May 27, 2015
Because South Dakota.
posted by MrJM at 9:31 AM on May 27, 2015
MrJM, that's what I was referring to with my "willfully wrong" link. Being from South Dakota, I sometimes forget that not everyone actually knows that. Among South Dakotans, pronouncing it like the French name is just something you'd do as a goof.
posted by roll truck roll at 10:24 AM on May 27, 2015
posted by roll truck roll at 10:24 AM on May 27, 2015
I was hoping that they'd pronounce Michigan as "Mi-chya-gin" a la Welcome To Night Vale, but alas.
posted by cyberscythe at 12:43 PM on May 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by cyberscythe at 12:43 PM on May 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
Cairo, IL, is pronounced "neh-VAY-da"? That's just crazy.
well, it's pronounced, "KAY-roh", so kinda?
I don't know what happened to the rest of my sentence in that post
posted by ArgentCorvid at 12:45 PM on May 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
well, it's pronounced, "KAY-roh", so kinda?
I don't know what happened to the rest of my sentence in that post
posted by ArgentCorvid at 12:45 PM on May 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
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