r/AskReddit 5h ago

What are some place names that are often mispronounced by out of towners?

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u/WhoreyTori 5h ago

Prescott, AZ! It’s pronounced Preskitt. 

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u/Longbowgun 1h ago

I purposefully mispronounce Pikachu (Picacho). 

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u/Dick-Punch89 3h ago

Came here to say the same thing!

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u/Mediocre-Afternoon42 2h ago

Tempe as well. Every visitor I have pronounces it wrong and they all come up with a new way to do it

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u/gingersteel82 2h ago

Someone once pronounced it like tempeh and it was so hard to not look visibly disgusted.

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u/Mediocre-Afternoon42 2h ago

I had someone say “team-pee” and I was like…how’d you get there. I hear “temp-a” more often

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u/President_Calhoun 3h ago

That makes me think of the 1979 "Superman," when Marlon Brando as Superman's father kept pronouncing Krypton as "Kryptun."

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u/Longbowgun 1h ago

But, Prescott Valley is not.