Talk:List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

Matching Pronunciations with Existing Wikipedia Pronunciations

Clicking a few links at random, I ran into several cases where the pronunciation does not match the pronunciation on the city's page (eg, Abiquiú, New Mexico, Achilles, Kansas). Where did the unreferenced pronunciations come from? -- deflective (talk) 04:47, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Brevard County, Florida, USA

My rental car once broke down in Brevard County, in Florida, USA. Trying to identify my location by telephone to the rental company, I pronounced it the ways I - as a Briton - thought obvious and intuitive, with only a slight stress on the first syllable: brevəd, breevəd, even breyvəd, to no avail. So I spelled it out, and the rental agent responded, "oh, you mean brvAAARRRRd".

I therefore suggest that Brevard County be included in the list to reflect its counter-intuitive pronunciation with a heavily stressed, drawn out and rhotic second syllable.

I believe that the American actor George Peppard pronounces his surname along similar lines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.64.134.245 (talk) 07:34, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Article needs to be split

As this article has become a member of Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded, it needs to be split. I'll split to:

• List of places in the United States with counterintuitive pronunciations: A–L and
• List of places in the United States with counterintuitive pronunciations: M–Z

— Wbm1058 (talk) 02:35, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Contentious pronunciation

I considered adding the Massachusetts towns of Billerica and Chelmsford, but the locals in that area disagree on the pronunciation. Some say bill-RICK-a, others say BRICK-a. Chelmsford offers a variety, where the L or the R can be omitted, giving the possibility of CHEMSS-fudd, which is sometimes heard but perhaps regarded as inelegant. Snezzy (talk) 09:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Accent vs pronunciation

If I (Australian/British English) pronounce these names according to IPA, I sound American (even with say, Southern dialect American). I feel then, I have used an accent. Is this the same as received pronunciation of the name? Thank you. Manytexts (talk) 10:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

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Lebanon, PA

In the PA Dutch accent common in the area, "Lebanon" may even be pronounced "Lep-nin" without causing any confusion whatsoever.... PurpleChez (talk) 14:13, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Renaming proposal

I wonder if "counterintuitive" is a POV statement and is wholly dependent on what is familiar to the reader or to a certain group of readers, which is not WP:GLOBAL. It may be counterintuitive for a white American, but might not be counterintuitive for a Brit, or a Native American, or a latinophone or francophone, or anyone familiar with the linguistic origin of the name.

I suggest "List of United States place names that are frequently mispronounced." The word "frequently" isn't perfect, but it's less contentious than "counterintuitive" which is much more subjective. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 23:03, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Request to merge M-Z names into this one

I've moved the M-Z names into this list without much issue. I suggest we delete the M-Z list and make this the only one. Starbeam2 (talk) 14:33, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Respellings

Currently in the process of fixing all respellings to make sure they’re all correct. Güiseppi669 (talk) 15:45, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Update: Finished! Güiseppi669 (talk) 07:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)