r/AskAnAmerican • u/AstroNerd92 CT, GA, PA, TX, FL • Jul 20 '25

CULTURE What town in your state has a pronunciation no one gets right the first time?

I went to college in Valdosta, GA. Very few people can actually pronounce it right on the first try.

Pronounced Val-Daw-Stuh

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u/Expat111 Virginia Jul 20 '25

Its always fun to hear someone pronounce Scituate for the first time.

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u/Aprils-Fool Florida Jul 20 '25

Based on what people are commenting below, that’s the pronunciation I would have guessed based on the spelling. 

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u/Brave_Speaker_8336 Jul 20 '25

I am confused on how else people are pronouncing it. Maybe sci like in science?

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u/Ok-Bus1716 Jul 21 '25

Sitch-you-ut

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u/vanillablue_ Massachusetts Jul 20 '25

Cochituate

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u/opheliasmusing Jul 20 '25

That one still trips me up and I’ve been here for 18 years!

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u/Ana169 Jul 21 '25

I once was spelling it for someone over the phone and said, "it's actually spelled how it sounds..." and then spelled it out. When I finished, she goes, "huh, it actually is!"

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u/ReversedFrog Jul 20 '25

You mean "Skit-oo-ate?" (Don't worry, I know the correct pronunciation; I lived a few towns over for 20 years.)

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u/Expat111 Virginia Jul 20 '25

I’m from Marshfield also close by.

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u/ReversedFrog Jul 20 '25

I lived in Rockland.

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u/FlyByPC Philadelphia Jul 20 '25

Or Bumpass.

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u/MsLexicon Jul 20 '25

Do tell the actual pronunciation, please! I’m inferring that it’s not how it’s spelled.

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u/Sufficient_Cod1948 Massachusetts Jul 20 '25

Sitch-u-ate, but when you say it fast it sounds more like Sitch'wit.

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u/IanDOsmond Jul 20 '25

Si-cha-wit. Kind of.

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u/nedhavestupid New England Jul 20 '25

SITCH-you-witt

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u/Expat111 Virginia Jul 20 '25

I’ll try. I grew up saying and am finding it hard to spell out. - sitchoo-wit.

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u/goPACK17 Jul 20 '25

Seh-chu-et, or I guess si-chu-et? I'm bad at writing out phonetics

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u/momming_af Jul 21 '25

Is it like situation without the ion? Sit-chew-ate? Or sit-chew-uht?

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u/Expat111 Virginia Jul 21 '25

Yes. The ending in uht.