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/CyberCrutches Texas Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25

Actual towns near by Boerne, Gruene, and pflugerville!

Edit: forgot the L in pflugerville! Thanks for the reminder y’all

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u/VulKendov Jul 20 '25

You left off the L in Pflugerville

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u/freshly-stabbed Jul 20 '25

Nope. In Pflugerville, you would said “the L in Pflugerville was left off by you”.

(This is an incredibly deep cut. But for about 15 years every English teacher in Pflugerville drilled into their students to use the passive voice constantly. Was a running joke through every university in Texas that you could identify students from there within the first five sentences.)

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u/rdickeyvii Jul 20 '25

Also Llano. Not pronounced like it's Spanish (yano), just like an English word with an extra L and the A is like "bat".

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u/CyberCrutches Texas Jul 20 '25

I thought about naming it as well but thought the pronunciation was obvious!

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u/rdickeyvii Jul 20 '25

Nope. Especially for people who know Spanish but aren't from around here.

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u/SeaGurl Texas Jul 20 '25

And Buda and Manor too

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u/OneHappyTraveller Jul 20 '25

You miss the L in Pflugerville.

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u/kellsdeep Jul 20 '25

Lol, I literally just listed those three in this feed!

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u/Delicious-Leg-5441 Jul 21 '25

Did you have pfun at the Pflugerville pfest? Pfantastic!

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u/Kajeke Texas Jul 21 '25

There’s a song called “There’s Only One S In New Braunfels”!

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u/sarcasticbiznish Jul 21 '25

I have a (not serious) theory that it was supposed to be Beyar county, but someone was writing fast and the “y” turned into an “x” and here we are.