Ha ha, yes we certainly do have a few hard - to -
pronounce town names!
Not exact matches
Pu - erh tea (
pronounced poo · air), is
named from the
town of Pu Er in Yunnan province.
Thanks to your video, I now know how the
name of your
town is
pronounced (my guess was waaaay off) so now I'm smarter than I was five minutes ago.
The start of the date scene in this city can be traced back to 1793, when Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe decided in his wisdom to shift the main settlement of Upper Canada to Toronto, a
town that back then he gave the very original
name of York, since he could probably not
pronounce the actual
name of the place given to it by the people who already lived there.
He
pronounces the Spanish
names of
towns to the south with a fluent flourish.
Nissan has another, better solution that's sure to turn heads the next time a blizzard whites out your
town: the 370Zki, a
name pronounced 370 - Ski.
It was
named after the Parisian family bank of Emile d'Erlanger which helped finance the
town's early development, but the
name is not
pronounced with a French or German accent.
Although his wife, Kathy, leaves
town with their four children, Abdulrahman (known as Zeitoun because few locals can
pronounce his first
name) stays behind, hoping to protect their home, their job sites, and their rental properties.
But the lines, like the regional lingo — knowing your belly sizes, calling things native (not local), knowing when to skip over perfectly good letters in order to properly
pronounce the
names of
towns like Gloucester (Gloster)-- are part of the experience.
Mrs Pear, Since you are from Canada, how do you
pronounce the
name of the
town that Elizabeth taught school in for a while?