One of these days I'm going to have to make it to that fair, even though I never see ads for Puyallup or WA car dealerships anymore...

Did their hearts palpitate?

/Washingtonian

It would be funny if they read about it while floating down the river using their Blackberry or something...

I see what you did there.

Honestly I don't see teh funny in the headline... First Puyallup and Tacoma are pretty close to each other, and second the Puyallup River runs out to Commencement Bay in Tacoma...

Did they come at a trot or a gallop?

I'm not seeing the funny either. It's pronounced PYOO-ALL-UP. Was subby trying to make it say "pull you all up" or something?

Yeah, it's closer to "pyoo-ahl-ip" subby. You're either reaching, or you've never been there before.

/never done the pyuallup
//but I've seen the ads
///KVOS in Bellingham FTW!

JonnyBGoode: I'm not seeing the funny either. It's pronounced PYOO-ALL-UP. Was subby trying to make it say "pull you all up" or something?

I live in the area and don't get it either, so I'm assuming it is because I know the correct pronunciation...

bobbette, for some reason I have you favourited with the note "I owe this farker a beer" but I can't remember why. What did you do?

JonnyBGoode: I'm not seeing the funny either. It's pronounced PYOO-ALL-UP. Was subby trying to make it say "pull you all up" or something?

I read it as "pile-up" but I also have no idea what subby is talking about so...

Puyallup you say? I have a run there, chummer.

I Mukilteo'd at the headline

I was amused, reading it as "pull y'all up."

/East Coaster.

Subby most place names in the Northwest are taken from Native American Culture. Most people from Washington, Oregon, or Idaho don't know whether to laugh or slap the taste out of your mouth when you mispronounce their city/town names. Here are a few of the most commonly farked up ones:

Puyallup (pew-al-up)
Yakima (yeah-kim-aww)
Chewela (ch-eh-way-la)
Chehalis (shh-eh-hay-lis)
snoqualmie (sno-kwall-me)
saskatchawan (sass-catch-ah-juan)
wapato (whop-ah-toe)

Im guessing subby knows the correct pronunciation and is from this area. For GOD's sake, he quoted the News Tribune so he can't be from outside Pierce County.

If the male in the vehicle is still missing, I bet the police intend to Sequim. If you don't like that pun, whats it Tahuya?

Someone once told me that Puyallup is the biggest (maybe even the only) town that begins and ends with the letter P.

ArmyWarVet: Subby most place names in the Northwest are taken from Native American Culture.

Or, my personal favorite:

Sequim (squim)

/Native Americans be stealin all muh vowels!

Queensowntalia: I was amused, reading it as "pull y'all up."

/East Coaster.

I'm with you there, but with the added bonus that I was born in Tacoma and have been to (and pronounced wrong) Puyallup.

Paulistinian: Puyallup you say? I have a run there, chummer.

This is what I was looking for. Thanks!

ArmyWarVet: Subby most place names in the Northwest are taken from Native American Culture. Most people from Washington, Oregon, or Idaho don't know whether to laugh or slap the taste out of your mouth when you mispronounce their city/town names. Here are a few of the most commonly farked up ones:

Puyallup (pew-al-up)
Yakima (yeah-kim-aww)
Chewela (ch-eh-way-la)
Chehalis (shh-eh-hay-lis)
snoqualmie (sno-kwall-me)
saskatchawan (sass-catch-ah-juan)
wapato (whop-ah-toe)


My favourite is the neighbouring town from where I grew up in Ladner, BC: Tsawwassen.

It's pronounced: Ta-wass-en.

No outsiders ever get it right. Ever.

Ishkur
My favourite is the neighbouring town from where I grew up in Ladner, BC: Tsawwassen.

It's pronounced: Ta-wass-en.

No outsiders ever get it right. Ever.

I've heard it as Su-wassen on the BC Ferries PA announcements. Must've been recorded in Toranna.

ArmyWarVet: Subby most place names in the Northwest are taken from Native American Culture. Most people from Washington, Oregon, or Idaho don't know whether to laugh or slap the taste out of your mouth when you mispronounce their city/town names. Here are a few of the most commonly farked up ones:

Puyallup (pew-al-up)
Yakima (yeah-kim-aww)
Chewela (ch-eh-way-la)
Chehalis (shh-eh-hay-lis)
snoqualmie (sno-kwall-me)
saskatchawan (sass-catch-ah-juan)
wapato (whop-ah-toe)

You are obviously from the west side of the Cascades. It is correctly pronounced yeah-kim-uh. As in "Uh, what did I do so wrong in life that I got stuck in this dirty farking city"

Paulistinian: Puyallup you say? I have a run there, chummer.

One of the best video games ever made!

/Decking was easy money

I grew up in the area (Federal Way), went to the fair every year when I was in school, and I found the headline amusing. So there.

ArmyWarVet: Subby most place names in the Northwest are taken from Native American Culture. Most people from Washington, Oregon, or Idaho don't know whether to laugh or slap the taste out of your mouth when you mispronounce their city/town names. Here are a few of the most commonly farked up ones:

Puyallup (pew-al-up)
Yakima (yeah-kim-aww)
Chewela (ch-eh-way-la)
Chehalis (shh-eh-hay-lis)
snoqualmie (sno-kwall-me)
saskatchawan (sass-catch-ah-juan)
wapato (whop-ah-toe)

Yeah, but the locals there do royally fark up 'Des Moines'...

/and yes, Sequim is the best name up that way for sorting out the outsiders...

I take it there is at least one mod living in the greater Seattle area (currently, or in the past). Perhaps U-Dub grad

If they died, maybe they'll experience Re in Carnation.

Yay for the Pacific Northwest!
We have some of the most un-accented American English there is. I've heard that TV and radio broadcasters that hail from here are desirable for their neutral-sounding speech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_English

/Skookumchuck
/Wakepish
/Yakawawa
//Do the Puyallup.

ArmyWarVet: Subby most place names in the Northwest are taken from Native American Culture. Most people from Washington, Oregon, or Idaho don't know whether to laugh or slap the taste out of your mouth when you mispronounce their city/town names. Here are a few of the most commonly farked up ones:

Puyallup (pew-al-up)
Yakima (yeah-kim-aww)
Chewela (ch-eh-way-la)
Chehalis (shh-eh-hay-lis)
snoqualmie (sno-kwall-me)
saskatchawan (sass-catch-ah-juan)
wapato (whop-ah-toe)

Wrong, it's only 3 syllables.
Shuh-Hay!-luss

/Lewis County escapee

SKOOKUMCHUCK!

It IS "sa-wa-sen"

/fer-crisake-almighty

Thanks guy, now I'm homesick.

shidekigonomo: SKOOKUMCHUCK!



subtle?
/36-year tacomaITE

hey it's probably the best puyallup related headline that you could make. not great but it's not really much of a stretch. the way it reads is obviously 'pull yall up'. + .75

/lifelong tacoman
//can see puyallup river from my apartment
///well, the dirty brown bit of the bay where it dumps out :)

So they didn't have OnStar?

I stayed at the HIE in Puyallup for three months while working on a project for Boeing.

Do I get a cookie?

I was born in Puyallup.

JakeSB: Did their hearts palpitate?

/Washingtonian

Dammit.

The water in that area is waist deep till almost the I-5 bridge. In some places the sandbars are only shin deep.
The bodies will show up in the "natives" nets that are strung across the river at the Freeman road intersection (new window).

Too bad the state will never dredge all the rock and silt out of the concrete liner they put in back in the day.

/Salmon fishing in the Puyallup river
// Subby is an idiot

I give subby a +1

Why so much hate in these replies?

/born and raised in Longview, Wa

Since I'm a local (including 8 years in Tacoma), I didn't get the pronunciation joke; however, I understood the headline differently. Until this year, I couldn't figure out how to get to Puyallup. It confused the heck out of me. So I read that rescue crews hope to find the city of Puyallup... Just like I used to hope I could find it every September.

It is easy to find Puyallup.

Get on Hwy 512 from I-5. Drive 7 or so miles. Go down the hill. Hurrah! You're in Puyallup!

I Think I know less about this place now than I did before I came into the thread.

MrSteve007: I was born in Puyallup.

Damn, that's a time-saver. Genetic Engineering?

/no mess

eomoe: It is easy to find Puyallup.

Get on Hwy 512 from I-5. Drive 7 or so miles. Go down the hill. Hurrah! You're in Puyallup!

What confuses me is that you can get there from both the north side and the south side of Tacoma. It's taken me years to figure it out. And despite having spent so much time in Pierce and south King counties, I'm not actually sure which one is the 512. Way too many highways around here. I only know 5, 16, 7, and 99.

I live in Issaquah and still have to deal with people who can't pronounce it, so I'm getting a kick...

Used to live several years in Tacoma. NEVER heard Yakima pronounced Yeah-kim-aww. It was more like YAK-im-aww.

Death of Rats: eomoe: It is easy to find Puyallup.

Get on Hwy 512 from I-5. Drive 7 or so miles. Go down the hill. Hurrah! You're in Puyallup!

What confuses me is that you can get there from both the north side and the south side of Tacoma. It's taken me years to figure it out. And despite having spent so much time in Pierce and south King counties, I'm not actually sure which one is the 512. Way too many highways around here. I only know 5, 16, 7, and 99.

Curious if you're a Californian transplant or not. Californians - especially Southern Californians - are as used to calling their freeways by names as by numbers. As in, "Take the Ronald Reagan Freeway to the San Diego Freeway, then get on the Golden State Freeway and go down until you get to the Long Beach freeway, then get off on the Artesia freeway...

Out-of-towners go, "huh?"

I used to live in Tacoma and I figured out the headline. Took a minute though.

JonnyBGoode: Used to live several years in Tacoma. NEVER heard Yakima pronounced Yeah-kim-aww. It was more like YAK-im-aww.

Even better, it's the 'western' pronunciation of the 'Yakama' (yah-ka-ma) tribe. Which made for some controversy when the tribe bought the Yakima Sundome & basketball team a few years back and changed the I to an A, just to match their claimed, revised tribal pronunciation.