Mispronunciations

Add Lima Locomotive Works, located in Lima, Ohio, i.e. NOT "Lima, Peru"! 

How about "gon-dough-la" vs. "gondulah?"

The grammar police are at it again. Unfortunately, I am one of them...

MELGAR

Reading Railroad?  John

Monon.

Not long after the breakup up of Conrail; I can recollect a conversation with a former NS account manager who referred to the “Juanita” shops in Altoona.  Of course; it’s spelled Juniata and pronounced “joo-nee-atta.

In a similar vein and relevant to this topic only because it involved a railroad man; I had several Canadian Pacific people in Carlsbad, NM for a potash mine visit.  While having dinner that evening; the waitress asked if we wanted dessert.  One of the guys from Montreal said he’d like a piece of (and I’m spelling this phonetically) - peecan pie.  The waitress looked at him and said “huh”?  He repeated “a piece of peecan pie please”.  She said “hold on” and came back with two other waitresses; asking him to repeat his order for their benefit.  When he did; all three started laughing and our waitress told him “hon; around here it’s pronounced (again phoenetically) - peekahn.”

Curt

Try "Ouachita" (Mountains)

Andre

Just be nice guys...already have had an alert....

Alan; you’re kidding I hope.

Curt

juniata guy posted:

Alan; you’re kidding I hope.

Curt

I agree! What could possibly have been offensive in the few posts above?

OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:

Just be nice guys...already have had an alert....

Really, some people need to give it a rest and you can report me if your that vain.

How about Worcester Mass.   Is it WOR-Cester or is it WO-R-cester.  Only us who live in mass know for sure and the end of the line on the old B&A now CSX.

MELGAR posted:

The grammar police are at it again. Unfortunately, I am one of them...

MELGAR

Well, in my opinion, this thread is really not about "grammar". Note that the title is about proper pronunciation.

An "alert"??  What I see posted is very innocuous.

Surely someone hit the "Alert" button by mistake.

Andre

Hot Water posted:

Add Lima Locomotive Works, located in Lima, Ohio, i.e. NOT "Lima, Peru"! 

You mean as in the bean!

" Berkshire Mountains"

Only you Americans would forget that it's pronounced "Barkshire." . As in a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.  We English toffs can always find something to feel Lake Superior about.

Some people study linguistics at the graduate level.  Funded studies provide expenses for students to travel parts of the US of A with a list of words and a voice recorder.  People from various parts of the US are asked to read aloud the words on the list in what could be referred to as their native colloquialism.  Those audio tapes are then reviewed at the end of the semester.  John in Lansing, ILL

Sometimes it depends on your local dialect as well. Here in Northern Illinois we used to have a horse farm / park called ShIreland.

We also add the letter "S" to every grocery store even if it doesn't have an "S". I'm going down to the Jewels to pick up some grocery.

Just don't pronounce the "S" in our state name.

The Soo Line = comes from the phonetic spelling of Sault, as in Sault St. Marie.

Gary, I pronounce Worcester "WOO-ster" like boogie.  Andre, I have always said "WASH-i-ta".  Are those correct?

Railroaders on the D&RGW used a long I in Rio Grande: RY-oh-Grand.  Never pronounce the silent e in Grande.  Here are a few other local pronunciations for railroad locations:

Dalies, NM  =  Dal-EEZ     Waynoka, OK  =  Wye-NO-kuh or One-OH-kuh       Gallup, NM  =  Gallop (like a horse's gait)