how would you pronounce this street name?

[datasuspect]

"Vaglica Road"

in sour lake, tx?

[last_texas_dem]

1. Hey, that's my part of the country!

"Birthplace of Texaco"

I'd pronounce it Vag-lick-uh. (That looks a lot dirtier written out than said out loud, oddly enough!)

[bbernardini]

2. Raymond Luxury-Yacht. nt

[Iggo]

3. Throatwarbler Mangrove...(n/t)

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Does that have 4 Ms and a silent Q?

[crispini]

4. There's a street just near me called:

"Dilido Lane"

I would certainly have a problem saying it with a straight face. :D

[Iggo]

5. Seriously, though...

...I guess I'd say "Vaj-licka" and try not to giggle.

[BOSSHOG]

6. How bout Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans?

How bout Chop-i-two-lis?

[petronius]

12. Natchitoches always gave me trouble

How does 'NAK-uh-tush' come out of that spelling? :shrug:

[BOSSHOG]

15. Its a very complex and intricate

combination of letters combined with a lot of booze consumption by those who have to use it on a daily basis.

[KamaAina]

17. Not shabby

the accent is on the 'two'.

One wag said that, if New Orleans were at war (if??), the way we'd be able to spot infiltrators would be to make them spell "Tchoupitoulas". Which you did. Correctly. :yourock:

Not far from there, there are a number of streets named for the nine Muses of Greek mythology. In typical N'Awlins fashion, Calliope is "CAL-lee-ope", Terpsichore is "TURP-sick-core" -- and (though this may be an urban legend) some people say Clio as "C-L-ten"!!

[BOSSHOG]

18. And howbout FABOURG MARIGNY

Pronounce that infiltrators and just how is "BURGUNDY" Street pronounced? (A local kicked my ass several years ago when I mangled "Marigny.") Then we had another beer. I believe we were at Markey's on Royal.

I'm so happy I can spell Tchoupitoulas without cheating.

For extra credit, give us the correct name of Bret Favre's hometown.

We could bring them to their knees without firing a shot.

[KamaAina]

19. Kiln, MS

but they'd just recruit their spies from the 1st Cheesehead Division. :-)

[BOSSHOG]

20. But the locals pronounce it "The Kill"

As in, lets go down to The Kill Saturday night and watch the stop light turn colors.

[Chan790]

7. It's an old Sicilian surname...

the emphasis is between the A and the G, not the G and the L.

Vah-glic-ah.

[graywarrior]

8. With a French Lick, Indiana twang?

[supernova]

9. Va -Ha-lee-ca?

Or maybe Va Ha LEE ca?

I know "g" in spanish is pronounced "h."

[Parche]

10. VAG Licka

no problem
:hi:

[HamdenRice]

11. Ever hear the joke about the hard to pronounce "Kosciuszko Street" (Brooklyn)?

In seems to date from the 1920s. Cop finds a dead horse on Kosciuszko Street. He calls in to the precinct and says to the sargeant on duty, "Sargeant, there's a dead horse on Kosceeesko ... There's a dead horse on Koskoskos.... There's a dead horse on ...."

He hangs up and drags the dead horse a block and calls in again, "Sarge, there's a dead horse on Myrtle Avenue..."

[datasuspect]

13. koz-shooz ko?

[HamdenRice]

14. In the old days most Brooklynites mispronounced it as ...

KOS-key-OS-Ko Street.

Now we done got sophisticated, many New Yorkers pronounce it more Polish, Kus-kews-ko.

[FloridaJudy]

16. There's also "Gough" street in San Francisco

That always gives visitors pause. Does it rhyme with "cough", "tough", "dough", "bough" or "through"? English is a weird language: it's what you get when spelling fossilizes while the language itself is still evolving.


Oh, and it rhymes with "cough".

(edited for punctuation)