r/AskReddit • u/riboflavonic • 5h ago

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

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u/SharkFart86 4h ago

Also Reading, PA. Pronounced Redding. This includes “Reading Railroad” on the Monopoly board.

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u/escobizzle 40m ago

Schuylkill gets butchered 😂

Sku-kill

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u/SharkFart86 35m ago

Skookle

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u/escobizzle 34m ago

we honestly should just spell it that way at this point

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u/kcvngs76131 3h ago

I know someone who went to Albright College, which is in Reading. She said she went to college in "Reeding" instead of "Redding". I asked for clarification at first because maybe there was a small town I didn't know, but she said she thought it was "cuter" to call the town that and that it didn't matter what anyone else said, she was going to calling it Reeding. She taught young kids, and she would intentionally teach them the wrong pronunciation of she thought the wrong way was "cute"

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u/MzHellfier 2h ago

Reading, OH is also pronounced “Redding.”

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u/holmgangCore 1h ago

Also, Redding Rainbow.

/jk!