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In reply to agfan1030 • 2:09a, 3/28/22
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agfan1030 said:
Definitely not hard to pronounce but fun to here comments ... Like from the last Ag home basketball playoff game.
"Shot that three from Dime Box."

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Elgin ... hard g or soft g
Hard g / gym
Soft g / rag
A hard g actually is a voiced velar plosive like my name (Greg). A soft g sounds like j and is an affricate and is usually due to a softening by the vowel that follows it like the g in George.

What that said the I doesn't soften the typical Central Texas pronunciation, but the rest of the world thinks especially of Elgin watches which uses the soft g or j sound.

One of the things that ought to be taught in our schools prior to high school language classes is IPA symbols and their meaning with auditory guides to confirm. Then at least we start with standardized notation before new languages…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G

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In reply to Shadow of CuervoAg • 8:23a, 3/28/22
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Shadow of CuervoAg said:
Mart


Just think of your dream store, and drop the Wal in front
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8:23a, 3/28/22
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Joshua, TX is pronounced josh-uh-way by the locals.
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In reply to KyleJ2012 • 3:38p, 3/28/22
KyleJ2012 said:
Palestine

is it "Palesteen"
or "Palestyne"
"steen" not "styne"
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In reply to Ragnar Danneskjoldd • 3:45p, 4/1/22
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Ragnar Danneskjoldd said:
I Should Be Working said:
New Braunfels. Not New Braunsfels.
Actually, its pronounced News Bransfels. Source: Im a lifelong NewsBraunsfelsian of the last 6 months.
Ack! Dont't listen! Not funny…

NB is growing so fast that there are a LOT of newcomers spreading this (among themselves, and leading perfectly happy visitors to A Bad End….)
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In reply to F4GIB71 • 4:18p, 4/1/22
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F4GIB71 said:
https://www.texasalmanac.com/drupal-backup/images/topics/TownPronunciationGuide.pdf

Here you go. Proper pronunciation of every town in Texas.
Maybe that is right, but growing up in the 70's in Plano I always heard Altoga as "Altogy" and Tioga as "Tiogy". This was from people who grew up nearby in Farmersville. Possibly some regional affectation.
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8:03p, 4/1/22
Little town east of Paris named for Detroit, MI. Pronounced Dee-troit.
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9:24p, 4/1/22
How about Papalote?
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4:46a, 4/2/22
Wamba pronounced wahmbee Bowie County.
All your base
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5:56a, 4/2/22
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I can imagine quite a few non-locals flubbing Hebron, thanks to a certain basketball player...
Jesus saves
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10:15p, 4/2/22
San Antonio (pronounced San Antone)
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10:49p, 4/2/22
In the 1950s, my grandparents took me fishing on the banks of the "Nav-a-sot" River. Western boundary of Leon County.
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9:52p, 4/3/22
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DeLeon
Llano
Boerne
Gruene
Refugio
Mexia
Lajitas
Elgin
Manor

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10:16p, 4/3/22
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Blanco
LaMesa
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In reply to RoyIII_Ag08 • 4:13p, 4/4/22
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RoyIII_Ag08 said:
Mexia, TX
Reminds me of the old Aggie joke.

An Aggie is driving home to Corsicana for the weekend, and stops by a Dairy Queen in Mexia. Places his order, then says to the person taking it "how do you pronounce the name of this place" ? She replied "D..a..i..r..y....Q..u..e..e..n.


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9:30p, 4/4/22
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God Bless Dr. Wayne Ahr. His 45 min lecture on why it's "Muh-hair" will always stick with me. No clue why Mexia's pronunciation had anything to do with petroleum geology, but I felt like a real Texan who knows stuff after.
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9:43p, 4/4/22
"Muh-hair" is exactly how everyone pronounced Mexia in our neighboring community!
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1:47p, 4/5/22
Santone?
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They will come and join the best…”
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In reply to Ragnar Danneskjoldd • 3:54p, 4/5/22
Ragnar Danneskjoldd said:
I Should Be Working said:
New Braunfels. Not New Braunsfels.
Actually, its pronounced News Bransfels. Source: Im a lifelong NewsBraunsfelsian of the last 6 months.
Invite all your new neighbors to next year's Wurstfest, haben ein oder sechs Bier, und listen to the Alex Meixner band sing, "There's only one S in New Braunfels"
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In reply to F4GIB71 • 4:31p, 4/5/22
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5:14p, 4/5/22
Vielen Dank. I can't remember who wrote the original but the German doesn't make any sense. Love it anyway. I always figured they wrote those words only because hotels and Braunfels rhymed.

How is your cheese called
You are three hotels
We can't smoke here (grammatical error)
We're going back to New Braunfels
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9:45p, 4/5/22
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1. sachse
2. Mexia
3. Waxahachie
4, watauga

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10:09p, 4/5/22
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Chillicothe
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1:00a, 4/6/22
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Papalote
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10:24a, 4/6/22
I've heard some people say that the good folks in Cadwell put the emphasis on the 2nd syllable. Any truth to that?
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In reply to aaronjm75 • 11:25a, 4/6/22
aaronjm75 said:
I have a few, just because I grew up in what could be the dumbest part of texas.

Bowie, TX (think Jim Bowie, not David Bowie)
Montague County (pronounced Mon-teg, not mon-te-goo)
Alvord, TX (I know what your thinking... its not that hard, Al-vord... but ask any local and they will wrongly pronounce it al-void)
Who is this? Having taught there for 17 years, I get it 100%!
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11:27a, 4/6/22
Bogata (Buh- Go- Tah)

Cooper (Cuh-per)
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In reply to BuckshotJ • 8:33a, 4/7/22
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BuckshotJ said:
Santone?


Sannen Tone
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