Can someone pronounce"Juniata" for me

The "J" is silent.

 

Larry

In what????

Spo- KANN.

 

but back to San Joaquin - my dad, many years ago, dated a woman who said she was from the San Joe-a-Quinn valley in California.  An obnoxious woman.

 

Wah- KEEN.

 

Redding RR.?

Many years ago, when Denver still had two daily papers, a woman wrote in to the editorial section of the Rocky and she was absolutely appalled by the common local pronunciation of Buena vista (beOOna) and went rattling on about how utterly advanced and sophisticated those in her recent home town were compared to the peons out here in Colorado. Her recently vacated home town? Worcester MA. Got a good chuckle out of that. 

 

My theory is that however the locals pronounce it, then it's right - no matter where local is. 

Nicely said & I agree.

 

Tom

Recall speaking to an engineer working helper assignments out of Minturn on the D&RGW pronouncing Buena Vista as "Bween uh Vista"   and Pueblo as "Pweeblo".   But, then there is "Kaa-row" for Cairo, in Illinois. "Mar-sales" (Marseilles), too.

Worcester (wooster)MA....good one tripleo..that one gets everybody.

Don't ever refer to the Arkansas River as the Arkan-saw river in Kansas.  I learned the hard way - in Kansas its the Ar-Kansas River.

 

Curt

How about the suburb of Chicago where the well know hobby shop with the same name is located.  Spelled DesPlaines.  I've heard Tatoo got it right, as in Daplane.

If you pronounced it that way you would be asking where is the men's room?

Junie-atta with the atta pronounced same way as if you were saying: atta boy, way to go!

 

Simon

Don't know why my earlier post was deleted but I've heard it pronounced "otter" by the locals.  June-Knee-Otter.

 

Farmer Bill,

 

Simon sez:

 

There may be otters in the river, but there are none in the pronunciation!

 

 

While we're in the keystone state, Duboise is pronounced DOO boys, and Versailles is pronounced VerSails.

 

While we're on a pronunciation jag how is Strasburg pronounced? I know how we've always said it and I did find a Strasburg website that gave the phonetic (apparently it was founded by a Frenchman not a German like I had thought) but one of our customers in Straburg pronounces it as STROSS-BERG while everyone and everything I can find says STRAZ-BERG like I've always said it. What say ye, oh learned men of the rails?

 

Jerry

LOL....

Don't ask the Brits!!!  How in the world did "schedule" become "saidjewel"?!?!?!

I was going to pronounce "Juniata" one nee ahta as 10 years in San Diego silenced a lot of 'J's' Glad the Pennsylvania guys set us straight.Barney video above is funny.

Thanks for starting this thread, willygee.  I agree with Ron Leese.  Great idea.

 

Here are a few more to add:

• To its employees, the D&RGW was the Ry-uh Grand.
• Some Santa Fe stations as pronounced by railroaders -- Buenos, Texas: Bway-nuss.
• Dalies, NM:  Dall-eez
• Rivera, California (now Pico-Rivera): Ry-veer-uh
• Cadiz, California:  Kay-deez
• Waynoka, Oklahoma:  Wy-no-kuh
• Miami, Texas:  Mah-am-uh
• La Junta, Colorado:  La Hunt-a
• Boise City, Oklahoma:  Boys City
• Raton, NM:  Ra-tone (short a, as in rat)
• Mojave, California:  Mo-ha-vee (broad a, as in ha-ha)

You're not alone, KD.  I was right there with you in the "slow group". 

Would somebody be kind enough to help me with these:

 

Connaut, Ohio, on the Nickel Plate

 

Kanawha as in river or C&O steam engine

Be glad you aren't headed into Western PA and have to pronounce "Youghiogheny" or into NEPA and have to pronounce "Mahanoy City"!

Were these 'locals' transplants from the  'BAH-stin' area?  Seems like every word ending in the letter 'a' gets an 'r' sound added to it, made all the more famous by El Presidente Jack Kennedy.   Remember his famous missle crisis....down in Cyou-ber? (Cuba)

 

In the "Kids say the darnedest things!" category....    Years ago one of our fellow employees kept us informed his son's pronunciation efforts as he was just learning to read.  Two I recall.....

 

Navajo: Nay-vah-joe (he saw the beginnings of the word 'naval' in the word.) was one....

 

Then, here 'up north' we have a common sign posted at most highway overpasses providing the ubiquitous seasonal warning..."Bridge May Be Icy"....which puzzled his son....'Dad, why is the bridge icky?'

 

So, how about Schuylkill? 

 

Here's a pronunciation guide for y'all....'known to the State of California'!!...

 

CA-PA Pronunciation Link

 

muggles.

 

KD

 

 

 

 

Last May I took a train from Strasbourg in France to Reims. I've decided that the only way I can properly pronounce that City is to say "rants" while at the same time trying to stifle a sneeze and getting whacked in the nether regions with a two-by-four. Even then, what I uttered was a poor imitation.

 

Reims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saul_XBJaLA

 

Go ahead, give it a try.

Pretty sure the Spanish pronunciation is close to wah-nee-tah..

Kanawha is pronounced " Kay-Four" or sometimes "Big-Mike" !  

Schuylkill=Sky-kill

Schuykill is closer to skookill, according to what I've heard.  I'm not from Philly but close by, and my wife lived in Merion Park, a western suburb on the old PRR main line.

san wah-KEEN

If you're ever in Georgia and pass through a town named Vienna, it's pronounced VY-enna, not vee-ENNA like the city in Austria.

 

Vienna sausage, however, is pronounced like the Austrian capital, even in Vienna, GA. Go figure.

 

People around here incorrectly pronounce Genoa Salami as gen-OH-wa, instead of GEN-oh-wa. Heard one lady recently asking for PAR-va-lon (Provolone) cheese to go with her gen-OH-wa Salami.

 

At night I get WGN radio clear as a bell here, south of Atlanta. Can't get a single Atlanta station as they are all low power after sunset.

 

Any time they mention Des Plaines, whether the city or the river, they pronounce it just the way it is written, Des Plaines.

Well, how about Iraq and Iran?  Most of the world pronounces them Starting with "ih", but if you are in the military, they must be started with "eye".

 

We had an overnight in Pueblo many years ago - the lady who drove the hotel van called it Pee-eblo.  At one time Pueblo had a lot of railroad activity.

All this gives me taste for a ˈyē-ˌrō sandwich.  But first I will have a glass of Grand Mer-ə-nər.

Provolone rhymes with Bologna, go figure.

Here's another, The Tuolumne River

Proper names are pronounced by the owners of those names. So in Illinois (no s) we have a town called San Joe's...

When I was in Boy Scouts we did a week canoe camping trip in Maine. On the way up from Baltimore we got lost so we stopped at a diner and one of the leaders called his AAA to find out where we were and how to get back on track. AAA wanted to know what town we were in and the waitress told us Pibbidy. Well the AAA guy couldn't find that town so he asked for a spelling, the waitress then told us P-E-A-B-O-D-Y.

 

Jerry

Oddly enough, people here in Atlanta say YEE-ro,  which is the proper Greek pronunciation, whereas in New York, which has the largest Greek population outside of Athens, Greece,  they say JY-ro.

 

Now if they could only learn to say Genoa correctly.

two-ol-u-me or 2-ol-oo-me

 

I love this thread.