School Names that are often Mispronounced

dhsdog06 said:
Even here in the area both schools are located, there's this weird habits of adding i's where there are none. Arch-i-bold. Fair-i-view. I really don't get it.
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It’s not an easy transition to make the ‘ch’ sound into a ‘b’ sound without making a short ‘i’ noise in between. No idea how the middle ‘i’ gets in there in Fairview, though.
 
Not from the area, but I knew some people who called Wooster like Worcester, MA, then in turn would say Go Woo in sports cheers.

Can someone clarify? Is it Wuh or Woo?
 
Sykotyk said:
Buck-tel is how I've heard it mispronounced a lot.

East Palestine (though the train wreck has gotten their name widely known but the Tine-Teen last syllable was a common error).

Conneaut. I learned from traveling that people really did think it's "Canoe" the water vessel or "Cah-newt". It's Con-EE-Ought.

Pymatuning Valley. This is more my grandmother's generation and others in the area where that Western PA drawl turns it into "pam-a-tune-ing" instead of "Pie-ma-tune-ing". Younger people get it right by that old WPA vocal sound is still common (but dying with phrases like Red-up, etc).

I know some are just butchered because the spelling looks suspect.

Bucyrus, Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Massillon, Wapakoneta, etc.

If you ever deal with people outside Ohio who aren't from Ohio reference city names in Ohio, you know Massillon is getting butchered. It's always "Mass-ih-lawn" or "Mah-sill-on" or "Mah-sill-in". The emphasis is never right. I don't blame anyone having trouble with Wapakoneta. I did laugh at someone calling it "Ash-tabula" like "Ash-spatula".
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my college roommate at Toledo would pronounce Bucyrus as "Buckeye Russ". As someone who traveled through Bucyrus multiple times in my childhood I had to correct him only once thankfully.

Even people in Ohio have pronounced Lima as Lima, Peru. So I give out of staters a pass if the in staters can't even deal with it.
 
Blue Jay Fan said:
Delphos. Shockingly I hear MANY in Ohio pronounce it Delfose. It's Delfus.
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My neighbor down here in Greenville, SC is from Fort Wayne and when she first found out I was from Lima asked me if I ever had been to DelFOOS. I dropped my head haha and corrected her.
 
scbuckeye99 said:
my college roommate at Toledo would pronounce Bucyrus as "Buckeye Russ". As someone who traveled through Bucyrus multiple times in my childhood I had to correct him only once thankfully.

Even people in Ohio have pronounced Lima as Lima, Peru. So I give out of staters a pass if the in staters can't even deal with it.
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Yeah. City names named after foreign cities I don't really hold anyone to. Lima, Vienna, Versailles, etc. Ohio is technically the one in the wrong.
 
Bless Em All said:
No, Ver-Sales. No Z.

Tuscarawas: tusk-i-ra-was?

I was told that the German settlers that founded Russia, Oh pronounce it like the Germans do. Not sure if that is true.
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Tus-Ka-Ra-ris is how I've usually heard it sound. That last syllable gets butchered pretty bad compared to how it's written. Though I'm sure you're supposed to pronounce it was or wis. But almost everybody seems to make it into an R instead of W sound.

That's why everyone says Tusky Valley or Tusky Central Catholic or TCC.

Conotton Valley is just like it's crass insult name Forgotten Valley. Kah-Not-in. I've heard it pronounced more like connotate: Kah-noe-TON but that was rare.
 
933York said:
Not from the area, but I knew some people who called Wooster like Worcester, MA, then in turn would say Go Woo in sports cheers.

Can someone clarify? Is it Wuh or Woo?
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My dad's side of the family is from RI. I have spent a lot of time out there. Attended Providence College (i.e. Prawfidence Cawllege) I would argue Worcester MA and Wooster OH are pronounced noticeably different.

For the New England folk, Worcester has much more of a "Wistah" pronunciation going on if you carry a heavy accent. To your point, the first syllable in Worcester is often going to be Wuh. Wuh-Stuh. I've heard Wistah a bunch. Ohioans will much more say Wuh-Ster if there is any flair to it (and it won't come close to the New England style). The Woo sound is not prominent for the MA/RI folk.
 
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933York said:
Not from the area, but I knew some people who called Wooster like Worcester, MA, then in turn would say Go Woo in sports cheers.

Can someone clarify? Is it Wuh or Woo?
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I have to say my piece for the sake of Cardi B. Kardashian in Mentor... it's Wuh although the college kids call it Woo for short
 
933York said:
Not from the area, but I knew some people who called Wooster like Worcester, MA, then in turn would say Go Woo in sports cheers.

Can someone clarify? Is it Wuh or Woo?
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Yep, Wooster is pronounced "Wuh-ster", but their cheer is pronounced "woo".

When Hamilton Twp was scheduled to play there in the tourney about ten years ago, we had a lot of fun on the game thread teasing the Wooster folks about the pronunciation thingy, changing the spelling of every word with "oo" in it, etc. One of them told me, "Yeah, we do pronounce the school name and cheer differently, but that's the way it is!"

Makes sense, it would sound funny to say "Go Wuh". :D
 
Sykotyk said:
Tus-Ka-Ra-ris is how I've usually heard it sound. That last syllable gets butchered pretty bad compared to how it's written. Though I'm sure you're supposed to pronounce it was or wis. But almost everybody seems to make it into an R instead of W sound.

That's why everyone says Tusky Valley or Tusky Central Catholic or TCC.

Conotton Valley is just like it's crass insult name Forgotten Valley. Kah-Not-in. I've heard it pronounced more like connotate: Kah-noe-TON but that was rare.
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Although I am familiar with people referring to it as "Forgotten Valley," I preferred to call it "Cannotwin Valley." Perhaps they will do more winning after all the facility upgrades they've made; courtesy of all the pipeline money.
 
Mr. Slippery said:
Although I am familiar with people referring to it as "Forgotten Valley," I preferred to call it "Cannotwin Valley." Perhaps they will do more winning after all the facility upgrades they've made; courtesy of all the pipeline money.
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Think the biggest issue is they need people to move in with families. Money is there, though. Maybe all those transient workers will take up roots in the area, but it won't affect high school numbers for a long time.
 
IndianaBanana said:
It's a nitpick, but...
They say:
Fort Recovery (FORT ree KUH vuh ree)

We natives cut to the chase and drop from 5 syllables to 4 by mushing the last two together.
It's more like:
FORT ree Kuh vree
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Yeah, these style guides are created by outsiders that aren't using the native slang/accent to really describe things.

That reminds me... It's not Camp-bell or Camp-bull. It's Camel. Like the animal. And just Camel. Maybe say Camel Memorial if you're being formal, but the Memorial name is just not really used at all. Very similar to how Massillon Washington is almost never referred to as Washington in any fashion. Except maybe official records or reports by OHSAA.
 
Sykotyk said:
Yeah, these style guides are created by outsiders that aren't using the native slang/accent to really describe things.

That reminds me... It's not Camp-bell or Camp-bull. It's Camel. Like the animal. And just Camel. Maybe say Camel Memorial if you're being formal, but the Memorial name is just not really used at all. Very similar to how Massillon Washington is almost never referred to as Washington in any fashion. Except maybe official records or reports by OHSAA.
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St. Marys Memorial is known to no one in Northwest or West Central Ohio as Memorial. It's just St. Marys.
 
Zunardo said:
Yep, Wooster is pronounced "Wuh-ster", but their cheer is pronounced "woo".

When Hamilton Twp was scheduled to play there in the tourney about ten years ago, we had a lot of fun on the game thread teasing the Wooster folks about the pronunciation thingy, changing the spelling of every word with "oo" in it, etc. One of them told me, "Yeah, we do pronounce the school name and cheer differently, but that's the way it is!"

Makes sense, it would sound funny to say "Go Wuh". :D
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I was at their first game where they introduced script Woo at halftime...lol
 
Sykotyk said:
Tus-Ka-Ra-ris is how I've usually heard it sound. That last syllable gets butchered pretty bad compared to how it's written. Though I'm sure you're supposed to pronounce it was or wis. But almost everybody seems to make it into an R instead of W sound.

That's why everyone says Tusky Valley or Tusky Central Catholic or TCC.
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I thought it was easier to spell Tusky then Tuscarawas...lol
 
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