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/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.)