really tough model name pronunciations --how bad does it get?

A lot of locals pronounce Panama City as Panny Maw or Pana Maw, without the City added to it.  The same people pronounce Wal Mart and K-Mart as Wal Mark and K-Mark.

My first wifes family in Maine loved to point at places on the map and get me to say them. So I wrote Bexar county Texas, game over. Now I`m here in Austria having a good time with v and w. Not to mention Der, Die, and Das. I can´t seem to get the concept of the across.                  

Rick Martin wrote:

Though I'm an ole Fla Cracker now I was born in Chicago, Ilinois. Ya know "Chi-town" and I still cringe when the state is pronounced  Illinoise rather than leavin the s silent. Sorry the only other mangle I can offer is Kissimmee, FL. Tourists usually mispronounce it Kiss-a-me and I don't unless the tourist is a super model.   Rick Martin

I was born and raised in Florida just north of Tampa.  Here are a few more Seminole and Calusa names for you to ponder:

Pithlachascotee, Chassahowitzka, Choctawhatchee, the now-infamous Kissimee, Okefenokee, Homosassa

There are so many more, too.

How about people's names?

Almost everyone in the English speaking world knows who Kylie Minogue is.

But way back in the 80's when she was just a (but still nationally known) rising Aussie TV starlet, I recall hearing a radio voiceover guy proudly announcing the appearance of "Kylie Minnow-goo" at a local shopping mall. 

Phil

I must be the one who has never heard of her.............

 

David

PatlaborUnit1 wrote:

Phil I must be the one who has never heard of her.............   David

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, David!  

Here in Utah we have a town called Tooele. Most people outside of Utah don't even get close, and some people here can't even pronounce it. {TOO-ILL-UH}. Spoken quickly and somewhat slurred if your from utah. like {Too-Will-Uh}. Nobody really knows where this name came from. Lots of speculation but no fact.

Mike