Virginia place name pronunciation
Snake
a.b.a.
How are these places pronounced by the locals:
Faber
Schuyler
Mauzy
Strasburg
Weyer's Cave
McGaheysville
Buena Vista
Ceres
Haysi
Dante
Stonega
Appalachia
Vanzant
Honaker
Pembroke
Pearisburg
Narrows
Chilhowie
Rural Retreat
Wythe/Wytheville
Smyth
Pulaski
Lafayette
Fork Union
Roanoke
BasketWeaver
"Snake" <dms...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> OK, we have nailed down Botetourt, Staunton, Buchanan and a few others on
> a.b.a.
>
> How are these places pronounced by the locals:
>
> Faber
>
> Schuyler
>
> Mauzy
>
> Strasburg = Strazberg?
>
> Weyer's Cave
>
> McGaheysville
>
> Buena Vista
>
> Ceres
>
> Haysi
>
> Dante
>
> Stonega
>
> Appalachia
>
> Vanzant
>
> Honaker
>
> Pembroke = Pembrook?
>
> Pearisburg = Parisburg
>
> Narrows = Narras?
>
> Chilhowie
>
> Rural Retreat
>
> Wythe/Wytheville = With/Withvel
>
> Smyth
>
> Pulaski = Pughlaski?
>
> Lafayette
>
> Fork Union
>
> Roanoke = Ronoke
>
>
Martin Hofner
Faber
> >
> >
> > Mauzy = mozey
> >
> > Strasburg =
> >
> > Weyer's Cave
> >
> > McGaheysville
> >
> > Buena Vista = byoona vista
> >
> > Ceres
> >
> > Haysi
> >
> > Dante
> >
> > Stonega
> >
> > Appalachia
> >
> > Vanzant
> >
> >
> > Pembroke = Pembrook = yes
> >
> > Pearisburg = Parisburg = yes
> >
> > Narrows = Narras? = close enough
> >
> > Chilhowie
> >
> > Rural Retreat = as is
> >
> > Wythe/Wytheville = Withvel = of withvul
> >
> > Smyth
> >
> > Pulaski = Pughlaski? = Pew las' key
> >
> > Lafayette = Lay fay ette
> >
> > Fork Union = as is
> >
> > Roanoke = Ronoke = Row noke
> >
> >asdasdasdasd
FarmerDill
>How are these places pronounced by the locals:
>> >
>> > Schuyler = I've heard both shooler and skooler I grew up about 30 miles
from Sky la
>> >
>> > Mauzy = mozey
>> >
>> > Strasburg = Straws burg
>> >
>> > Weyer's Cave= Way ers cave
>> >
>> > McGaheysville
>> >
>> > Buena Vista = byoona vista
>> >
>> >
>> > Haysi = Hay sigh
>> >
>> > Dante= Dant
>> >
>> > Stonega= Sto neg ah
>> >
>> > Appalachia= App ah Latch e ah
>> >
>> > Vanzant= Van sant
>> >
>> > Honaker = Hhan'acre
>> >
>> > Pembroke = Pembrook = yes
>> >
>> > Pearisburg = Parisburg = yes
>> >
>> > Narrows = Narras? = close enough
>> >
>> >
>> > Rural Retreat = as is
>> >
>> > Wythe/Wytheville = Withvel = of withvul
>> >
>> >
>> > Pulaski = Pughlaski? = Pew las' key
>> >
charlie dick
>OK, we have nailed down Botetourt, Staunton, Buchanan and a few others on
>a.b.a.
>
>How are these places pronounced by the locals:
>
>Faber
>
>Schuyler
>
>Mauzy
>
>Strasburg
Strawsberg
This one I know for sure. During my fb coaching career we had more than
one good donnybrook between Clarke County and Glenn Proctor's Strasburg
Rams. They bleed purple. :-)
>Weyer's Cave
>
>McGaheysville
>
>Buena Vista
>
>Ceres
>
>Haysi
>
>Dante
>
>Stonega
>
>Appalachia
>
>Vanzant
>
>Honaker
Long O, long A ... HO NA ker, iirc. One of my principals at Clarke did
some time there.
>Pembroke
>
>Pearisburg
>
>Narrows
>
>Chilhowie
>
>Rural Retreat
>
>Wythe/Wytheville
>
>Smyth
>
>Pulaski
Pew las ki, I think.
>Lafayette
>
>Fork Union
>
>Roanoke
>
--
charlie dick
"The right to be left alone -- the most comprehensive
of rights, and the right most valued by a free people."
- Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S. (1928).
Ragnarok
"charlie dick" <di...@databasix.com> wrote in message
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> In alt.appalachian, "Snake" <dms...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >OK, we have nailed down Botetourt, Staunton, Buchanan and a few others on
> >a.b.a.
> >
> >How are these places pronounced by the locals:
<snip>
> >Strasburg
>
> Strawsberg
>
> This one I know for sure. During my fb coaching career we had more than
> one good donnybrook between Clarke County and Glenn Proctor's Strasburg
> Rams. They bleed purple. :-)
And to add from this Michiganian who just spent a week in the area, I looked
at the sign twice after my mother-in-law pronounced it that way.
<snip>
> >Appalachia
After saying "App - a - laych - ee - a" I was corrected that it was "App -
a - lach - a". Where did the "i" go?
> >Wythe/Wytheville
"with" / "withvil" or "withvul"
> >Smyth
"Smith"
> >Pulaski
>
> Pew las ki, I think.
I have heard that, with accent on the "pew" or accent on the "las". The 'w'
sound is almost swallowed up.
> >Roanoke
"Rown - oke"
> --
> charlie dick
For specifics -- my in-laws live in Christiansburg, and even among them
there are differences. But all have lived there their whole lives.
Kimberly S.
(whose own accent drifts rapidly southward whenever I am in Virginia)
Joe Williamson
> How are these places pronounced by the locals:
A few I know:
> Schuyler = SKY-ler
> Weyer's Cave = WEERZ
> McGaheysville muh-GACK-eez-vill
> Buena Vista bYOO-nuh VISS-tuh
> Dante = DANT (I think)
Cyberbilly
"Martin Hofner" <yearo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> How are these places pronounced by the locals:
> Faber
> > >
> > > Schuyler = I've heard both shooler and skooler
> > >
How about SKY-ler?
-CB
bman
>OK, we have nailed down Botetourt, Staunton, Buchanan and a few others on
>a.b.a.
>
>How are these places pronounced by the locals:
>
>
>
>Haysi = Hey - si (long i)
>
>Dante = Dane-t (near locals do use the Dan-t suggested, total foreigners use the Italian pronounciation)
>
>
>Honaker = hoe - naker (long a)
>
>
>Chilhowie = chill - howie
>
>Rural Retreat
>
>Wythe/Wytheville -= with/withville
>
>Smyth = smith
>
>Pulaski = long u, like a church pew
>
>
cledus
how to pronounce it right in Texas.
How many know how to pronounce "Portsmouth"?
And, to see if somebody is a true Virginian, make them say "there's a
mouse about the house" :-)
-cledus
jls
[...]
> > How are these places pronounced by the locals:
> >
> > Faber
Fayper
> >
> > Schuyler
Skylurr
> >
> > Mauzy
Moozy
> >
> > Strasburg
Strouse Borg
> >
> > Weyer's Cave
Ware's Cave
> >
> > McGaheysville
McGooeysville
> >
> > Buena Vista
Byooona Vizzta
> >
> > Ceres
Seerus
> >
> > Haysi
Hayseed
> >
> > Dante
as in Divine Comedy
> >
> > Stonega
Stawneeega
> >
> > Appalachia
Apple Atchy
> >
> > Vanzant
Went there oncet for a wedding. Howsomever. I coulda sworn it was
Vansant. Don't be muzzlumizing good anglosaxon (or Dutch) names, Mr
Vipper.
And speaking of vippers, I saw the prettiest timber rattler on 221 between
Marion and Ruffuhdton the other day. I'm afraid somebody had done hit it,
because it was right on the shoulder, half in the grass and half on the
pavement.
charlie dick
>McGaheysville muh-GACK-eez-vill
Interesting. I grew up with quite a few Magahas here in the Eastern
Panhandle who pronounced their surname the same way.
FarmerDill
>And, to see if somebody is a true Virginian, make them say "there's a
>mouse about the house" :-)
>
Not really; The pronuciation of House and Mouse are quite different on either
side of the Blue Ridge. East Virginians use the English sound, while western
Virginians use the OW sound.
Wubba
> I forgot all about Buena Vista! Been gone too long. They don't know
> how to pronounce it right in Texas.
>
> How many know how to pronounce "Portsmouth"?
>
> And, to see if somebody is a true Virginian, make them say "there's a
> mouse about the house" :-)
>
Cool thread,Snake!
Southeast Uh-hy- o-ans say Purts-muth. but then Rio Grande is
pronounced Rye-uh Gran too. Lancaster is Lank'-uhstur, not Lan-castor.
We have a village named Chauncy and it's pronounced without the
"u"..like: Chan'cy. WV has a town named Hurricane, but pronounce it
Hurruh-kin. A visitor is noticed right away due to his/her name
interpretations :o)
-Wubba
resides in LongBottom
FarmerDill
(GAY lacks) eastern Virginians are apt to call it gal ax as in the slang for
girl.Kilmarnock (kill MAR knock) is also a problem for cental and western
Virginians who won't to put the accent on the the first syllable.
techrat
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Cyberbilly
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You don't want to know how the locals pronounce Norfolk. Hint: There is no
L sound and the O is pronounced like a U in the second syllable.
-CB
Guv Bob
> a.b.a.
>
> How are these places pronounced by the locals:
Cain't hep ye, this time, old buddy.
But, and this is a big butt, I can contribute a quote from a co-worker one
time, when he was trying to pronounce an unfamiliar word:
"I always had trouble with my pronounciation."
[he mint 'pronunciation']
Cyberbilly
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-CB
Snake
> How are these places pronounced by the locals:
>
> Faber
>
> Schuyler
In the Dutch fashion - SKY-ler
>
> Mauzy
named for a French Huguenot - mah-ZEE
>
> Strasburg
Dill and dick know - STRAWSS-burg
>
> Weyer's Cave
Bro Williamson has it - weerz, or if you're a Deadhead, Weir's
A couple of people said "ware's" and you do sometimes hear it pretty close
to that. What you NEVER hear is "wire's."
>
> McGaheysville
Bro Williamson got this one too, in the Scottish fashion with the heavy
aspiration.
muh-GACK-eez-ville
sometimes with more like a broad "a"
muh-GOCK-eez-ville, but I think GACK is more common
>
> Buena Vista
no-brainer - byoona vissta
>
> Ceres
one syllable, "sears" as in roebuck
>
> Haysi
bman got it - hay-sigh
Named after two early residents or mine owners, I think Hayes and Siler
>
> Dante
one syllable, you hear both "daint" and sometimes "dant"
It wasn't named after the Eye-talian poet, but after an early merchant of
French ancestry.
>
> Stonega
You hear both stow-NAY-guh and stow-NEE-guh
Originally a company town for the Stone Gap Coal Company, I think. Produced
Edd Clark, the Stonega Stallion, a great high school football player, but a
sad story.
>
> Appalachia
gotta be with the LATCH
Larry said "Apple Atchy" which is the most Hillbonically-correct rendering,
but you actually hear "Apple Atcha" more often. We're talking about the town
in Wise County, which had the name long before it was generically used for
the "region."
>
> Vansant (not Vanzant)
Thanks for the spelling correction, Larry. My mind was Skynyrdized, I guess.
Now, there is a "Vanzant" in Kentucky.
But it is widely pronounced with more like the voiced "z" sound than the
sibilant "s."
I think you hear VAN-zant more often than van-ZANT, but both are used widely
.
>
> Honaker
HONE acre - charlie dick and bman got it
>
> Pembroke
PEM-brook - BW and BH got it
>
> Pearisburg
"paris" as in France - BW and MH again
>
> Narrows
One syllable - rhymes with "stairs" - sometimes even rhymes with "stars"
>
> Chilhowie
chill-HOW-ee
>
> Rural Retreat
OK, nobody got this one, which was my home from ages 1 to 5, back in the
Truman administration.
The "retreat" part is pronounced normally.
The first word is one syllable "rull" rhymes with "full."
In more formal discourse, you acknowledge the presence of the "r" making it
more like "rurl," almost (but not quirte) rhymes with "curl."
Talking fast, you drop the "l" and run it all together, "rurratreat"
>
> Wythe/Wytheville
"with"
"Wytheville" in common use pretty much rhymes with "swivel"
>
> Smyth
plain old "Smith"
>
> Pulaski
pew-LASS-kee
>
> Lafayette
luh-FAY-ut in Montgomery County
>
> Fork Union
This is a little out of Appalachian territory, but even though I think it
was named after a "union" church at the fork of a road, most people in
Virginia pronounce the first word with the long "o" to rhyme with "pork."
>
> Roanoke
Yep. Two syllables, forget the "a" Ronoke. Unless you're a politician or a
TV news person.
>
>
Cyberbilly
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> >
> >
Ever hear of Bumpass in Louisa County?
It's BUMP-uss, not.... well, you know.
-CB
FarmerDill
>Ever hear of Bumpass in Louisa County?
>
>It's BUMP-uss, not.... well, you know.
>
Yep right down the road from Cuckew (coo cooc}
John Slimick
your pronounce "Roanoke" as "Big Lick."
And for our Ohio brethren, Gallipolis
is "Gall--a--polees".
john slimick
sli...@pitt.edu
daeje...@gmail.com
daeje...@gmail.com
Idjit BoB
> NAW-fik = Norfolk
As my mama awlways said "Better late then never."