it's boy-see, not boy-zee

Walla Walla. Keokuk. Cucamonga.

Natchitoches (Louisiana).

Hint: it's pronounced nack-uh-tish.

/lived there once

I'll wait for the video of Massachusetts residents trying to say Karlsruhe. It'll be "wicked" funny, I'm sure.

/Chicagoan going to college near Boston

Worcester.

Winktologist: Worcester.

Wuh-stah

Well,that's 48 seconds of my life I'll never get back.Crap,I just wasted another 48 writing this.

LindLTaylor: Yeah but can you pronounce Großbreitenbach?

My guess is gross-brighten-bock

Wow. I guess the internet really is over.

I offer Islandia, Patchogue, Massapequa and/or Hauppauge.

Puyallup..... Sequim

ya know, this could be followed directly by "the average American trying to speak."

Subby out yourself because we're probably neighbors

/grew up in succasunna

Bryn Mawr, Schuykill and Uwchland.

I'm a bit out of practice with my German, but I think that was a German technical university trying to lay down the smack on MIT.

Alright, all of you Americans pronounce "Oregon" correctly (Oregonians excluded).

I caught a spy who tried to tell me he was born in Olathe.

Bathia_Mapes: Alright, all of you Americans pronounce "Oregon" correctly (Oregonians excluded).

Or gone

gatsome: Bathia_Mapes: Alright, all of you Americans pronounce "Oregon" correctly (Oregonians excluded).

Or gone

I take it back, it might have a hint of that e in there, so I'd say it's more like "Or-eh-gone" but said quickly.

Bathia_Mapes: Alright, all of you Americans pronounce "Oregon" correctly (Oregonians excluded).

Throat Warbler Mangrove.

/what do I win

You win the internets!

gatsome: Bathia_Mapes: Alright, all of you Americans pronounce "Oregon" correctly (Oregonians excluded).

Or gone

Close.

vossiewulf: /what do I win

You'll get nothing and like it!

gatsome: gatsome: Bathia_Mapes: Alright, all of you Americans pronounce "Oregon" correctly (Oregonians excluded).

Or gone

I take it back, it might have a hint of that e in there, so I'd say it's more like "Or-eh-gone" but said quickly.

Ory-gun.

/but can they pronounce Leominster, Woburn, Amherst, Waban, Tewksbury, and Masconomet?
//how about Narragansett?

El Chode: Subby out yourself because we're probably neighbors

/grew up in succasunna

Not subby but I also grew up in Succasunna.

/go gaels

I Like Bread: Bryn Mawr, Schuykill and Uwchland.

partial to Bala Cynwyd myself

El Chode: Subby out yourself because we're probably neighbors

/grew up in succasunna

Subby. Grew up in Netcong. Howdy neighbor

El Chode: Subby out yourself because we're probably neighbors

/grew up in succasunna

You forgot to say the magic word.

Ho-Ho-Kus

/not subby either

Psumek: I Like Bread: Bryn Mawr, Schuykill and Uwchland.

partial to Bala Cynwyd myself

El Chode: Subby out yourself because we're probably neighbors

/grew up in succasunna

Subby. Grew up in Netcong. Howdy neighbor

Grew up in Stanhope, 1000 feet from Musconetcong river; less than 5 miles from Succasunna.

Howdy neighbors

OrangeDuster: I offer Islandia, Patchogue, Massapequa and/or Hauppauge.

Let's start with De Troit, then consider New Orléans, not to mention Baton Rouge.

\Ditroyt, Norlins, Bat Nroozh

humanshrapnel:
El Chode: Subby out yourself because we're probably neighbors

/grew up in succasunna

Subby. Grew up in Netcong. Howdy neighbor

Grew up in Stanhope, 1000 feet from Musconetcong river; less than 5 miles from Succasunna.

Howdy neighbors

Don't remember going to HS with you, but must have.

/Patriots class of 97.
//brother was class of 87

FYI, Karlsruhe is home to Germany's premier technological university. This commercial is saying: Karlsruhe is a lot easier to say (for Germans) than Massachusetts, where MIT is. Thus, KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) is better for Germans. The more you know.

Most of these unpronounceable American place names are of Native American origin.

Psumek: Grew up in Stanhope, 1000 feet from Musconetcong river; less than 5 miles from Succasunna.

Howdy neighbors

Don't remember going to HS with you, but must have.

/Patriots class of 97.
//brother was class of 87

Yup, we must've, however I don't remember you either.
Do you miss Carmine's?

/Class of 94

puckrock2000: gatsome: gatsome: Bathia_Mapes:
//how about Narragansett?

Anyone that has been to Redbones can get that one easy.

I'm a fan of Belle Fouche, SD

I had Marvelous Marvin Hagler as a guest on my radio show in Brockton, Massachusetts. Every person on this tape pronounced it better than Marvin. "Massatooshiatts"

Paris1127: /Chicagoan going to college near Boston

You mean "Bhas-ten"?

/car, Harvard Yard, etc.

oldandwiser: Puyallup..... Sequim

Hoquiam

I blame the Bee Gees.

puckrock2000: gatsome: gatsome: Bathia_Mapes: Alright, all of you Americans pronounce "Oregon" correctly (Oregonians excluded).

Or gone

I take it back, it might have a hint of that e in there, so I'd say it's more like "Or-eh-gone" but said quickly.

Ory-gun.

/but can they pronounce Leominster, Woburn, Amherst, Waban, Tewksbury, and Masconomet?
//how about Narragansett?

Pemigiwasset?

Bastiat's Last Disciple: FYI, Karlsruhe is home to Germany's premier technological university. This commercial is saying: Karlsruhe is a lot easier to say (for Germans) than Massachusetts, where MIT is. Thus, KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) is better for Germans. The more you know.

Do premier German universities usually feel it necessary to run commercials? I'd love to see what a TV spot for MIT would look like, actually.

Or is KIT the German equivalent of a place like ITT?

Nacogdoches, Texas even spellcheck thinks its a mistake

Why don't americans try :

Autumn
Mirror
Aluminium (yes, that's how it should be spelt as it is a metal made from alumina and the convential suffix for an element is 'ium' as in alumin[ium] pluton[ium] stront[ium] and NOT aluminum)

Oh, and perhaps some floridans should try MAP

The Incredible Sexual Egg: Winktologist: Worcester.

Wuh-stah

Acctually it's Wi-stah, unless you're from Needum

Peabody - Peh-bud-dee
Woburn - WOO-burn
Worcester - Wustah
Gloucester - Glosta
...and on and on. When I first moved here from NYC, my requests for directions were met with some really blank looks. Thank God for GPS.

Whatever you do, don't mention the war.

Hellz Donkeys: Peabody - Peh-bud-dee
Woburn - WOO-burn
Worcester - Wustah
Gloucester - Glosta
...and on and on. When I first moved here from NYC, my requests for directions were met with some really blank looks. Thank God for GPS.

You forgot some good ones.

Haverhill - HAY-vrull
Ledyard - Ledger

/I like in Woburn, so I'm getting a kick...
//the real long-time locals say "wubbin"

humanshrapnel: Psumek: I Like Bread: Bryn Mawr, Schuykill and Uwchland.

partial to Bala Cynwyd myself

El Chode: Subby out yourself because we're probably neighbors

/grew up in succasunna

Subby. Grew up in Netcong. Howdy neighbor

Grew up in Stanhope, 1000 feet from Musconetcong river; less than 5 miles from Succasunna.

Howdy neighbors

I used to gook pounds upon pounds of ribs and chicken in the back of the Stanhope House as a summer job in college.