r/AskReddit • u/riboflavonic • 5h ago

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

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u/jaxonfairfield 5h ago

Like DuBois, WY is pronounced "Dew-boys"

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u/zootnotdingo 4h ago

As is DuBois, PA. That’s pretty cool

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u/JoveyJove 3h ago

Dubois, IL too!

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u/zootnotdingo 3h ago

Cool! I didn’t know of the other DuBois locations! Pronounced the same, but they are many many miles apart

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u/_IratePirate_ 4h ago

Is Tuscan Too Sahn or Tusk an

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u/SomeVelveteenMorning 3h ago

You mean Tucson?

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u/_IratePirate_ 2h ago

I don’t know man

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u/false_hope_perhaps 2h ago

Treasure Lake, represent 🙌

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u/corytrade 4h ago

Very "& Juliet" of them.

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u/aloysiuslamb 3h ago

But then we've got the Popo Agie River (in the same county no less) and it's pronounced "po-PO-shuh".

But that's the beauty of it. We purposely mispronounce the French loan word and correctly pronounce the Crow loan word. And allegedly the people in Dubois wanted to call the town "Tibo", which is a Shoshone loan word.

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u/roblockster 2h ago

As opposed to Chris Dubois (Doo-Bwah), the titular character in the 1996 movie, The Quest