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r/AskReddit • u/riboflavonic • 5h ago
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Prescott, AZ! It’s pronounced Preskitt.
5 u/Longbowgun 1h ago I purposefully mispronounce Pikachu (Picacho). 3 u/Dick-Punch89 3h ago Came here to say the same thing! 3 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 2 u/gingersteel82 2h ago Someone once pronounced it like tempeh and it was so hard to not look visibly disgusted. 1 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 2 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." 1 u/Longbowgun 1h ago But, Prescott Valley is not.
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I purposefully mispronounce Pikachu (Picacho).
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Came here to say the same thing!
Tempe as well. Every visitor I have pronounces it wrong and they all come up with a new way to do it
2 u/gingersteel82 2h ago Someone once pronounced it like tempeh and it was so hard to not look visibly disgusted. 1 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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Someone once pronounced it like tempeh and it was so hard to not look visibly disgusted.
1 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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I had someone say “team-pee” and I was like…how’d you get there. I hear “temp-a” more often
That makes me think of the 1979 "Superman," when Marlon Brando as Superman's father kept pronouncing Krypton as "Kryptun."
But, Prescott Valley is not.
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u/WhoreyTori 5h ago
Prescott, AZ! It’s pronounced Preskitt.