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Gonna pick this thread to drop some random trivia. A county near mine is named Montague. Being a good little English Lit nerd, upon moving to Texas I proceeded to pronounce it "Mon Tuh Gyoo" (rhymes with "view"), because in Romeo and Juliet that's the only pronunciation that preserves the meter and rhyme scheme. I was quickly informed that it's "Mon Tayg" (rhymes with "vague"). This is not insane, but it is very annoying.
They're saying their own town name wrong but also I'd say mon tayg for fun
This pronunciation is very Texas, and hilarious ๐
I had to go to Mobile, Alabama for work once. I kept calling it mo-bul.
All the locals called it mo-beel and kept trying to correct me. Fun times.
Not moh-bile? That's my go to.
I used to live near a town called Nevada (nuh-vay-duh), and boy was it fun to rule them up by calling it Nevada (neh-vah-duh, like the state)
Oh man, that sounds like you're referring to the one in Missouri. I riled up a number of folks that way.
How about the New Madrid fault? Apparently that is the new MAH-drehd. I fought against that one, mostly because folks laughed at me for pronouncing it like the rest of the entire world would expect.