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@zacheggert7557
Жыл бұрын
Google Doc?
@allanlank
Жыл бұрын
So close to the border (Tacoma, Syracuse, Buffalo) but nothing in Canada?
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
@@allanlank I still don't have a passport
@allanlank
Жыл бұрын
@@Ben_Brainard LOL. That is SO American of you. You should get one, your stand-up would do VERY well in "The Great White North" (only come in the summer, winters can be brutal here).
@Jackass4933
Жыл бұрын
Ekalaka, Helena, Wibaux, Choteau, and Missoula, all in Montana
@who_gave_me_a_pen9463
Жыл бұрын
The actual pronounciation of cœur d’alene hurts my heart. But, seeing them fail at saying Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac was really funny
@fightingblind
Жыл бұрын
Seeing people struggling on Coeur d'Alene makes me wish he put Spokane on the list
@RavingRozeComms
Жыл бұрын
Was also going "Ben? Where's Spokane? Spokane should be on this list!" Lol
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
@@RavingRozeComms Honestly, I just didn't think Spokane was hard enough! But I'll put it down for next time!
@Jame5man
Жыл бұрын
The pronunciation of Cœur D’Alene makes me irrationally angry
@tessgonzalez
Жыл бұрын
I was waiting for someone to be angry about the Sault. “Soo! How is that Soo?” It happened every time someone from out of state visited 😂
@ilovecobblestonee
Жыл бұрын
I love how Ben finds so much pleasure in the suffering of others
@joshanmarcusyuanregencia345
Жыл бұрын
Its like the people of masschusetts
@Abbyxx812
Жыл бұрын
Woo fellow Owl House fan
@JutlandAngel
Жыл бұрын
It's cause he's already suffered through it.
@Bearded_Zer0
Жыл бұрын
Ah, the Florida Man is strong with this one.
@kyblestone
Жыл бұрын
✨F L O R I D A✨
@davidthompson6861
Жыл бұрын
Bummed we didn't get reactions to the correct pronunciation of Nachitoches. I have to imagine that was a real mindbender
@krspkrmmom
Жыл бұрын
That depends....the Texas one is natch-i-toch-ez, and the Louisiana one is nack-o-dish. Thanks, nationwide call center experience...
@mom5catskyle596
Жыл бұрын
The Texas one is spelled different- Natchadoches - whereas the Louisiana one used in the quiz is more pronounced nack-ah-dish rather than nack-o-dish.
@krspkrmmom
Жыл бұрын
I couldn't remember if they were spelled the same way or not. Thanks for the clarification!
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
@@mom5catskyle596 The Texas one is actually spelled Nacogdoches and it rhymes with bag a roaches!
@scarletbard6511
Жыл бұрын
@@Ben_Brainard As a Texan, it's not a bad descriptor either.
@AlicePhantom
Жыл бұрын
Wilkes-Barre has 3 different pronunciations depending on who you ask. People that live there don't even pronounce it the same way lmao.
@bigbrocol1908
Жыл бұрын
As someone from that area, I’ve exclusively heard it as Willks Bear
@rtk142
Жыл бұрын
Also from the area, frequently hear Wilks Berry
@NotaFrom99
Жыл бұрын
I know my local weatherman calls it Wilkes-Bar
@joehung1552
Жыл бұрын
@@rtk142that's how Pittsburgh says it when talking about the Baby Pens.
@Nadine-bv3jm
Жыл бұрын
And with New Orleans, I have been told 3 different proper names
@arcticbanana66
Жыл бұрын
Native New Englander here. Like Worcester and Glocester, there's no hard C in Scituate, so "SIT-chew-it" is the correct pronunciation (you will also regularly hear "SICH-wit" depending on the local accent). As a New Englander, he went easy on them by not using some of the more difficult East Coast names. And I don't mean the easy hard ones like Glocester (GLOSS-ter), Leominster (LEMON-ster), Leicester (Lester), Barnstable (BARN-stuh-bul), Billerica (Bill-RICK-uh), Prybar (Pribber), and Mianus (my-ON-iss (thought to derive from the name of Native American chieftain Mayanno)). I mean the _hard_ ones like Mooselookmeguntic, Peyapehacsett, Seipican, Wequassett, Wesquadomeset, and the famous Lake Chaubunagungamaug (which is itself short for Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg). And then there are some that are technically pronounced the way they're spelled but the locals often don't call them that. For example, if you hear anyone mention Woonyville, P-town, or Li'l Compy, they're talking about Woonsocket, Provincetown, and Little Compton.
@krspkrmmom
Жыл бұрын
I knew there was no hard 'c'! I talk to people all over the country and learn all the pronunciations.
@curiousKuro16
Жыл бұрын
Y'all run out of English names to pilfer and started stealing from the Welsh or something?
@arcticbanana66
Жыл бұрын
@@curiousKuro16 Indigenous American. The New England nations were mostly of the Algonquian language group.
@pamelatichenor9573
Жыл бұрын
The most underrated and my favorite Massachusetts mispronunciation is Quincy. The locals say Quinzy with a Z. And I still can’t figure out why 😂 I grew up in Western MA and I thought it was Quincy until I was riding the T and the automated announcements kept saying “Quinzy”
@pamelatichenor9573
Жыл бұрын
And Peabody is “Peh-buddy.” Why do we mispronounce such simple towns, Massholes? 😂
@iplayminecwaft261
Жыл бұрын
As a PA native I’m crying at Schuylkill (sko-kul) and Wilkes-Barre (depends on who you ask)
@Machodave2020
Жыл бұрын
Bala Cymwyd should've been hear. People native to the state get it wrong.
@lizzykatieschindele6265
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it was pretty funny though!
@joehung1552
Жыл бұрын
I didn't know Schuylkill but got Wilkes-Barre. I'm from swpa.
@cguyre
Жыл бұрын
Totally!!
@DrKahnihoochima
Жыл бұрын
At least we didn't have to listen to them butcher all of Philly's Welsh train station towns.
@jordanz2288
Жыл бұрын
This feels like your bid to be the Alex Horne of American taskmaster and honestly I’m here for it 😂
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
🤫
@jessicazaytsoff1494
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be opposed by the USA be version of taskmaster...the less said the better.
@SEHmmmmmm
Жыл бұрын
Ha ha! Love it. It would be so much better than the actual attempt that came out (weirdly with Brit actor Freddie Highmore as a contestant). But it was a massive flop… so that’s not saying much! Of all the offshoots, I’d say the NZ one is the most successful at maintaining the same ethos while still offering something unique.
@Bree_999
Жыл бұрын
@@Ben_BrainardI haven't seen any other version of Taskmaster besides the UK version but if Ben becomes the US version of Alex Horne, I might watch it. Definitely got Alex Horne vibes from this video.
@Reedstilt
Жыл бұрын
I've been thinking Ben would make a great contestant on a re-booted American Taskmaster, but you're absolutely right. He's giving off Taskmaster's Assistant vibes here and would absolutely own the role.
@marvelcraver
Жыл бұрын
As someone who lives near Wilkes-Barre, we say bar, berry or bear. We even have shirt with pictures of a bear, raspberry, and bar of soap ask "which are you?"
@jrpapi5
Жыл бұрын
This is brilliant ! Lol i newd to find one for my best friends parents🤣
@robina.9402
Жыл бұрын
I clicked so fast with schuylkill in the thumbnail. So there's the Schuylkill river and also the Schuylkill expressway (76) that follows it. My family is from the Philly area and refers to both as the "sure-kill," cause either the river pollution or traffic will get ya.
@robina.9402
Жыл бұрын
Bonus hard to pronounce city that's next to the Schuylkill river, Bala Cynwyd
@lizzykatieschindele6265
Жыл бұрын
Same! The minute I saw Schuykill I thought “This is going to be fun!” For the longest time I thought it was spelled Sgoogle because I was a tiny child and only knew it auditorily. Funny to think about now!
@laurencebrown3822
Жыл бұрын
I live in Spokane, Washington (spo-CAN), and the number of times I hear television people mispronounce it as spo-CANE amazes me.
@rubyh6256
Жыл бұрын
I went to a robotics competition in the area and on the drive we had a conversation about the correct pronunciation, one of the people in the car was saying spo-cane. By the end of the drive my brain couldn't remember which one was actually correct, It was a very long drive.
@lackeyreader
Жыл бұрын
And the number of people that mispronouce Yakima is staggering
@mondasin
Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Spokane the Zips capital of the world.
@Furthea2
Жыл бұрын
hah, an E at the end means it should have a long a so cane would tecnically be correct. I don't have an issue only cause I heard the name a few times before I saw the spelling, lol. It's like Coeur d'Alene, which I'd heard but never read so I didn't recognize it at all
@diamondflaw
Жыл бұрын
Hello Warshinton person. Thank you for your dispensaries. Sincerely, the panhandle.
@akhilsundar7376
Жыл бұрын
Ben, you should do this with the fans, hopefully several times. Also, you misspelled ‘Tooele’.
@shandrabrooks6431
Жыл бұрын
I came to the comments just to say that Tooele was misspelled. Glad you beat me to it.
@Trixie_Lavender
Жыл бұрын
This bothered me more than the pronunciation of Tooele
@brookeashton6169
Жыл бұрын
Me too!!!! 😂
@librarymousemama
Жыл бұрын
I was coming to look for Tooele being misspelled.
@ltpinecone
Жыл бұрын
Happy to see some New England names out there still kicking outsider butts! (It's a point of pride for us)
@serephita
Жыл бұрын
The Worcester one hurt and made me laugh at the same time.
@dontdionme9354
Жыл бұрын
Would love to see them pronouncing Leicester
@joehung1552
Жыл бұрын
I only know how to say it because of the Something to Wrestle With podcast and Brother Love teaching someone to say it.
@dontdionme9354
Жыл бұрын
@@joehung1552 I only know how to say it cuz I umped them when they played in the state finals in softball 6 years ago or so
@wendyhamm9722
Жыл бұрын
I would love to see them do Leominster.
@Machodave2020
Жыл бұрын
Bala Cynwyd is a township in Montgomery County PA (just outside of Philly). People in the city sometimes can't even pronounce this right. The 'Bala' part is easy to pronounce but it's not easy to say the Cynwyd part if you don't know any Welsh. It's pronounced like /kin-wuhd/
@carversalad7441
Жыл бұрын
Is it Welsh?
@Zomby_Woof
Жыл бұрын
Teaching children Welsh should be considered abuse.
@serephita
Жыл бұрын
LOL it's in To Wong Foo :) thank you 90s drag movie icon Vida Boheme for teaching that pronunciation.
@marcmcpherson6960
Жыл бұрын
@serephita Vida Boheme is also how I know how to pronounce "Bala Cynwyd". 😂
@Machodave2020
Жыл бұрын
@@carversalad7441 yeah, it's Welsh.
@DeniseRenae1
Жыл бұрын
I love the hints in the pronunciation guide 😂. Born in Washington, I knew all 4 of the Pacific Northwest ones, but only a few of the others that I was familiar with already.
@ajmacphoto
Жыл бұрын
Mackinac is in Michigan. (The doc says Wisconsin.) The island and the bridge go with Mackinac spelling. The city goes with Mackinaw City. Within town there is no consistency. Businesses use both spellings.
@adde9506
Жыл бұрын
FYI: you need to include the state. Several of these are duplicated in other states where they are pronounced as expected.
@LuccaAce
Жыл бұрын
I think he did in the ones they were reading. They seemed to know what state they were dealing with
@Xyxaria
Жыл бұрын
Versailles is pronounced the same as KY here in MO
@tommykeeran6776
2 ай бұрын
@@Xyxaria If the one used in the video was KY then it's also the same in OH.
@chriscurrey9600
Жыл бұрын
I am expecting to hear many butchered Wisconsin cities 😂😂
@zacheggert7557
Жыл бұрын
Sadly, none were given.
@EAD106
Жыл бұрын
Waukesha. So easy to say, but people seem to always mispronounce it. Should have happened.
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
I'm gonna do another round, don't worry!
@AmyKozerski
Жыл бұрын
Oconomowoc, Prairie du chien, weyauwega are good ones
@evanmorrison3232
Жыл бұрын
Oh baby, can't wait to hear about ashwaubenon. Beautiful city.
@brucewolf3050
Жыл бұрын
I work in Puyallup, I was really wanting to see their reactions to that. Especially the person who said they were there and kept getting corrected, and still said it wrong
@MrsMBash22
Жыл бұрын
Same! I really wanted to hear what they'd have to say!
@SharkyLunasaurus
11 ай бұрын
I'm always amused whenever I'd call the theater for showtimes and the robo voice would pronounce it wrong. Had a friend move here from indiana and they never have remembered how to pronounce it correctly.
@wildfire8910
11 ай бұрын
I love getting people from out of state(or even sometimes out of town) to try and pronounce it. And its always so funny to hear it pronounced wrong bc its always been pronounced correctly to me so i just don’t get how people get it wrong. But i like seeing the struggle
@AislinnBMln
Жыл бұрын
As a Florida transplant to Washington, I *knew* Puyallup was gonna be in that list. I STILL can't get it right after three dang years and literally having to say the word EVERY DAY
@Greenteabook
Жыл бұрын
As an Oregonian, I loved hearing all of the ways they tried to pronounce Willamette 😂 People don't even pronounce the state name correctly half the time so we all come to expect something wild to come out when people try.
@shade5348
Жыл бұрын
only reason I know is Dead Rising xD
@diamondflaw
Жыл бұрын
Good ol’ Organ, just south of Warshington.
@stoneofelements
Жыл бұрын
Willamette Valley was on their list... Willamette is a city, county, a name for falls, etc. Willamette Valley is a span on land between our mountain range and our coastal areas.
@Lownamebrand
Жыл бұрын
I got that one right but I'm from Puyallup so we both got a raw deal lol
@dunstvangeet1500
Жыл бұрын
I always tell people (Native Oregonian myself), it's Willamette, Damn-it. I heard that one when they were filming the TV Show Grimm here. That's what they used to teach all the actors how to pronounce Willamette.
@Lizard-813
Жыл бұрын
As a huge fan of the International Phonetic Alphabet, seeing your pronunciation guides did physically hurt me, but I understand why you wrote them like that
@jamesquick9441
Жыл бұрын
Two more Michigan ones for you, Ben! - Saline (suh-LEEN) - Milan (MY-lin) I once met a man looking for directions to both Saline and Milan... only he kept saying "say-line" and "mill-AHN" even after I corrected him.
@swsdtee
3 ай бұрын
Ontonagon as well
@tommykeeran6776
2 ай бұрын
You could make so many videos on Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio alone lmao
@monicakirby1693
Жыл бұрын
You should do comparisons. Concord NC vs Concord, MA Beaufort nc vs Beaufort, sc
@gretchenhill7366
Жыл бұрын
Yes!!!
@Teal_Blastoise
Жыл бұрын
That'd be fun!
@darnellrobinson8159
Жыл бұрын
Definitely hoping to see the reaction to Natchitoches. Wonder how they would’ve reacted to Ouachita.
@bermudakat3253
Жыл бұрын
You could make an entire list based off the pacific northwest cities here's a few just from Washington: Spokane, Yakima, Issaquah, Snoqualmie.
@stephaniewolk7846
Жыл бұрын
Multnomah, Naches
@shayelea
Жыл бұрын
Pend Orielle. My personal favorite, from Oregon: Champoeg.
@Kats_Tea_Time
Жыл бұрын
Some took this so personal. 🤣 Happy to see the new England cities! Also, not sure how many Scituate cities there are, but the one in RI is pronounced without the c like one of the guys said. Like the start of situation 🤣
@amietedeschi3203
Жыл бұрын
Yes, the one in Massachusetts is pronounced that way too.
@A_Stray_Child
Жыл бұрын
I once learned to pronounce schuylkill for a school project and this made me irrationally angry so did Mackinac
@npost224
Жыл бұрын
i refused to believe schuylkill was pronounced skookull until i went to a university that has a res hall named after it
@kynn23
Жыл бұрын
You'll love this spelling exception. Mackinaw City is the only one spelled the way it's pronounced. Mackinac Island, the Mackinac Bridge, Fort Michilimackinac...all pronounced with a W sound.
@williamcole3211
7 ай бұрын
@@npost224KU?
@phyllisj894
Жыл бұрын
If you hadn't included Puyallup I'd have been disappointed. I've heard Amtrak conductors mispronounce it. (Also, remember... IT'S WILLAMETTE, DAMMIT!)
@nicolesprouse4466
Жыл бұрын
Virginia has a bunch of cities that people tend to pronounce wrong: Gloucester (gloss-ter), Poquoson (puh-ko-son), McGaheysville (ma-gack-ees-ville), Chincoteague (chin-co-teeg), Staunton (stan-ton). There's a lot of British & Native American influence on city names but not necessarily in the pronunciation itself.
@shannonsullivan8102
Жыл бұрын
I’m a northern VA native now working in Lexington, VA and the locals say I still pronounce Buena, vista wrong. They pronounce it b-when-ah vih-stah. There’s also Norfolk (nor-fuk), Pulaski (pew-lass-ski), and Buchanan (buck-an-on) just to name a few
@allanlank
Жыл бұрын
As a Franco-Ontarian, I KNOW how to pronounce Sault Ste. Marie.🤣
@robynp5917
Жыл бұрын
For once, hockey came in handy for me because I knew Wilkes-Barre and Sault Ste. Marie 😂
@nathanaeld.striker7191
Жыл бұрын
As an Oregonian, them not getting Willamette Valley hurts my soul. Bet they also mispronouce Oregon as well. XD
@stephaniewolk7846
Жыл бұрын
The number of people who also mispronounce Pendleton. Ahhhh, it makes me want to punch something 😅
@Heavenlyhounds96
Жыл бұрын
I knew Worchester and Louisville because of your Table series. Schuylkill (sp?) I think i got close. (Although i was saying skull-kill). I forgot how Wilkes-Barre was said. (Im from PA but have never been to either). I knew Mobile. Figured out Pierre I was close with Duchesne (i was saying it like Duquesne) Forgot Mackinac. Was "Versailles" more like Vur-say?
@Perfect5Recurve
Жыл бұрын
No, it’s if an English speaker pronounces is if they didn’t know French. Ver-sails
@lizzykatieschindele6265
Жыл бұрын
I’m also from PA! Near the Philadelphia region. I’m pretty sure that Schuykill is pronounced Skoo-kul.
@erinkay2000
Жыл бұрын
You need to do an all Washington state episode. Just 2 of the cities I've lived in are Snohomish and Sequim. There are a lot of wonderful and strange city and location names in Washington.
@Piper_____
Жыл бұрын
Don’t forget Walla Walla, WA!
@seaborgium919
Жыл бұрын
I never would've thought that Poughkeepsie would end up on this list. No Schenectady?
@Perfect5Recurve
Жыл бұрын
Skaneateles is a top candidate in my book. I also don’t agree with how he said Cayuga.
@seaborgium919
Жыл бұрын
@@Perfect5Recurveoh that would've been a good one. And I also agree with the disagreement lmao
@Teal_Blastoise
Жыл бұрын
@@Perfect5RecurveI remember learning the pronunciation on that one. Are there different pronunciations of it?
@Perfect5Recurve
Жыл бұрын
@@Teal_Blastoise The average person will say kay vs kai where kai is correct. Ben then followed it with yo-guh instead of yu-guh which is not correct. Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ is how it's written in Cayuga- Gai-yo-ko-no and its yo there but not English.
@Teal_Blastoise
Жыл бұрын
@@Perfect5Recurve cool. What about Skaneateles?
@lackeyreader
Жыл бұрын
I laughed because no one even tried Puyallup and no got the Willamette Valley. Living in Washington State, and realizing a lot of the places are Indian names, and not Spanish. Places like: Yakima Buena (nope it is not Spanish for thank you) Also, knew a lot of them including Pierre, SD (born in SD, raised in Washington). Thanks for the hilarious video.
@Noahscape31
Жыл бұрын
I'm not even American and I know how to pronounce Sault Ste. Marie, Wilkes-Barre and Mackinac so it was fun seeing others struggle with them, I would've missed like everything else though lol
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
I think being American was being a disadvantage in this 😂
@lauraschilling5088
Жыл бұрын
I'm amazed at how many I got right (20). Granted, we have a town in Wisconsin that the letters were literally pulled from a hat by a kid and rearranged into something pronounceable. And I'm from Ohio and lived in Michigan for a few years. Those towns weren't too bad. Toele stumped me for certain as did Weaubleau.
@ZanHecht
Жыл бұрын
Ahh, good old Ixonia
@Xyxaria
Жыл бұрын
Weaubleau is like a half hour away from me and I still know people that can’t pronounce it. Don’t beat yourself up.
@colctywi
10 ай бұрын
Is that how Ixonia got named? That makes sense.
@blazerfaneby
Жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in the Willamette Valley it's always funny hearing people say it wrong at this point 😂
@rubyh6256
Жыл бұрын
I feel he might have put that on there because every told him he pronounced it wrong in the Oregon video
@andsailedcalmlyon
Жыл бұрын
I was so excited that I knew how to pronounce "Boerne" (solely because I recently visited it). Got 5 total, which is frankly better than I would have expected.
@BookishNaiad
Жыл бұрын
As a Washingtonian, always glad to see Puyallup on these kinds of lists 😂
@Veltri_J
Жыл бұрын
Secaucus, New Jersey is a good one. Pronounce like sea-caw-cus.
@TheLocomono9
Жыл бұрын
The man bun signifies that he has yet to find a worthy opponent in state trivia
@jrpapi5
Жыл бұрын
Idk why but this tickled me🤣🤣 Made me think of Liu Kang or Shang Tsung in MK
@kathystigger6020
Жыл бұрын
That was fun to watch. And I knew some of them. From here and there. But no it is not them at all. I was right there with them on a lot of them. The extras were cute too.
@TheWriter22
Жыл бұрын
My mother grew up in South Dakota. As I was learning the state capitals in elementary school, I made the mistake of pronouncing Pierre the French way. I have not done so again. LOL. (Of course, this is coming from a girl, who around the same age, insisted that the Soviet Union was pronounced "Soviet Onion", my logic being that there was a country named Turkey, so why not an Onion, too? ::sigh:: (I learned my lesson on that one, too, I'm proud to say.)
@karlhenke91
Жыл бұрын
I don't live there (I lived in Anchorage), but "Taitetlek" in Alaska is pronounced: tuh-TIT-lik It is a bit of a shibboleth to see if you can pronounce it.
@LyleBoy2
Жыл бұрын
So glad this all lead off with a city name that even people who live in Louisville sometimes disagree about. 😄 Also, love that Versailles was also on here.
@pr9039
Жыл бұрын
lol "Mack-kinnic" MAC-in-awe. It's a cool little island where the only motorized vehicles there are emergency vehicles. Gotta take a ferry to get there. Or, for the fort, "For michilimackinac," for some real fun.
@randomcdude4430
Жыл бұрын
I wish you would have shown their reactions to "Nack-uh-dish". Or it's rival city across the state line in Texas of Nacogdoches. Fun fact about those two towns, they both have a college in them and as per sacred southern tradition they are fierce rivals in football with a sorta racist trophy that is passed to the school that wins the annual game. The trophy is known as Chief Caddo and is a wooden statue of a native American that could be referred as a "cigar store indian".
@wipeout1125
Жыл бұрын
Oh, so it's like Sault Ste Marie, MI playing Sault Ste Marie, Ontario in hockey every year
@zoeycanerday7634
Жыл бұрын
I'm from Louisiana, and I heard a story about the origin of the two names of these cities (don't know if this is true or not though). In short terms there was an indean chief that sent out both of his sons to find new land to claim. They both started walking in opposite directions and ended up at their respective towns. Side Note: Nachitoches is considered historical land, so they are not able to widen the roads. It makes driving there a pain. They have also only replaced the main brick road once (as far as I know), and won't do it again.
@5foot2eyesofblue13
Жыл бұрын
I live in Washington state we are known for having difficult city names. Sequim, Pend Oreille, Skagit, Snohomish, Wahkiakum, Tulalip, Steilacoom, and Mukilteo are my favorites.
@akschauer
Жыл бұрын
Coeur d'Alene means heart of the awl, based on what I remember. You should try to pronounce Lake Pend Orielle (ID) and Sequim (WA). Those threw me for a loop as a kid.
@nightrocker1343
Жыл бұрын
I love that Ben just reused an old video where he tortured himself with these city names. So now he tortures his friends. This is great.
@brabbit736
Жыл бұрын
I love pronouncing Macinac wrong around certain friends just to irritate them lol
@TheDevler23
Жыл бұрын
I love that you didn't show KZitem how to pronounce Puyallup 😂 we get to keep our test to identify transplants!
@jordanglover7208
11 ай бұрын
As a PA resident I also took a double take when I learned how Schuylkill was pronounced. Wilkes-barre was an easy one though
@arzamarsh1146
Жыл бұрын
I would love it if you did a video like this again with the Utah city names of Hurricane (Ben already went over how we pronounce it in his Utah names video), Scipio (pronounced Sip-ee-oh), and Sevier (pronounced Severe)
@saablazer
Жыл бұрын
Tremonton tripped me up when I first moved to Utah.
@jrommel02
Жыл бұрын
As other comments have said you could make an entire episode of people trying to pronounce pacific northwest names like Spokane, Yakima, Kennewick, Sequim, Naches, or Walla Walla and believe it or not some people have even mispronounced Everett all these names are only from Washington as well
@janetroberts4359
Жыл бұрын
As a native Washingtonian I’m always entertained when people try to pronounce Puyallup. Another good one here is Dosewallips.
@KitsuneNeko
Жыл бұрын
I know how to pronounce Mackinac because of their bridge that leads into the UP. I know how to pronounce Mobile because I live near it. I guess I pronounce New Orleans wrong since even though it's an easy drive over there... AND I've been there... "Or-lenz" Nah... "Or-leeenz". Lol. But you have to admit Florida has a lot of complicated named cities.
@LegendofZeldaediter
Жыл бұрын
Just watching them try to pronounce Mackinac made me die laughing. I didn’t think I was that hard to pronounce
@tessgonzalez
Жыл бұрын
I was waiting to see if someone asked what you mean by “the up” ⬆️
@LegendofZeldaediter
Жыл бұрын
@@tessgonzalez you have sparked something new for me to be excited about ty
@Galaxyofjedi
Жыл бұрын
As someone from Scituate I always love seeing people trying to find out how to pronounce it! (It’s pronounced sit-chew-it)
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
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@SeaPandaArt
Жыл бұрын
Best response ever: "do they even know what it means?" "Oh absolutely not, it's Idaho." As a born Idahoan, can confirm. To this day I don't know what it means because I'm too lazy to look it up.
@eostyrwinn5018
Жыл бұрын
As someone who grew up in upstate NY, I'm going to have to disagree with how you pronounced Cayuga. CJ had it right. I've only ever heard people say kai-YOO-gah. That's "Yoo" like the word you or in huge. (Also I'm still disappointed Chili, NY and Cairo, NY haven't made it into one of these place name videos)
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
Okay, so: you are correct on Cayuga. I had it in my head that I had written Cuyahoga (the Ohio one) and so I was telling people wrong😅
@firstdog314
Жыл бұрын
please be careful at the upcoming NY shows, as a transplant who had to learn a bunch of these town from a local BF, they get oh so confused by mispronounced names
@eostyrwinn5018
Жыл бұрын
@@firstdog314 Oh yeah can confirm. If you said Cayuga the way he did in this video but without the context/visible spelling, I'd have no clue where he's talking about. On the flip side, even as someone who grew up with these names I still get irrationally angry at every town that clearly pronounces its name wrong like Cairo, Chili, or Corinth
@darkstarr984
10 ай бұрын
I know that you actually pronounce the “l” in Versailles and it was hilarious watching everyone getting Schuylkill wrong in exactly the ways I thought they would. But also I had no idea people couldn’t pronounce Wilkes-Barre! On close examination I realized that their mispronunciations make more sense than the correct one…
@micahphilson
Жыл бұрын
I hope Beatrice, Ne is on here. I love how nobody would guess it's pronounced "bee-A-triss" because that's the only way you could hear them shout the name of the train stop back in the day. That's the only reason. Also could have fun with all the different pronunciations of Norfolk and Louisville. Both have like 3 different ways to say them.
@TeeganLee
Жыл бұрын
That's just the standard pronunciation of the English name Beatrice.
@WooffzTheCoon
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Beatrice isn’t that hard because it’s a common girl’s name. Most people can pronounce it easy.
@bunnyslippers191
Жыл бұрын
@@WooffzTheCoon Nope, they say bee as in the flying honey maker, a as in at, then triss and the accent is on the a right in the middle. The woman's name is pronounced Bee as in the flying honey maker, uh triss with the accent on the Bee and a secondary accent on the triss.
@The_Official_King_Clawthorne
Жыл бұрын
I agree fully, even a person from Nebraska has said Beatrice wrong (for the Nebraska way) and Norfolk has a surprise r sound
@micahphilson
Жыл бұрын
@@TeeganLee Normally you'd pronounce it "BEE-ah-trice", but the city is called "bee-AAH-trice". Not only is the emphasis moved, but the A is also the A sound in "cat", not an "uh" sound.
@michaelnello9459
Жыл бұрын
I'm from New York, and the amount of people that live here that cannot pronounce Irondequoit even relatively closely is astounding and always brings a laugh or two. My favorite of which was a buddy of mine calling it "Iron Depot" (like Home Dept) 😂
@victoriaolson8985
Жыл бұрын
Parsippany (NJ) Once pronounced by my ex as Par-sip-panny.
@brak1615
Жыл бұрын
Omg I'm from Parsippany too!! Now in Kansas but way to rep our town!! ❤😂
@JamesonYong
Жыл бұрын
I’d love to see some of Southern Illinois’s Little Egypt names. Specifically Vienna (with an emphasis on the I) and Cairo (Karo, like the syrup)
@AMiles1009
Жыл бұрын
Everyone missing Mackinac island hurt me as a former Michigander
@DarkDreams948
Жыл бұрын
Tbf i totally expected it, the native spelling fucks up everyone 😂😂
@Teal_Blastoise
Жыл бұрын
I'm not even from Michigan and I got that one right.
@Im_Bad_ROFL
Жыл бұрын
I'm from NC and there are several towns here that get pronounced wrong, but my favorite is hearing people trying to pronounce Fuquay-Varina lol. The amount of people who get that one wrong is astonishing 😂
@zacheggert7557
Жыл бұрын
To the best of my knowledge, how were NO Wisconsin towns listed?
@sensorglitch
Жыл бұрын
Oconomowoc
@darnellrobinson8159
Жыл бұрын
@@sensorglitchmy coworkers from there. Can’t remember how to pronounce it though.
@Rosarium2007
3 ай бұрын
The attempts at saying Willamette Valley correctly were hilarious. I don’t think anyone got it right. Love the cats.
@dasnyds00
Жыл бұрын
You need to do a Massachusetts edition of this!
@CatherineDupuis87
Жыл бұрын
I told my Utah friend how to pronounce Cochituate and he said "like a peanut in Spanish?"
@kimicappiello5480
Жыл бұрын
Ben! _HOW_ could you forget Peabody, Massachusetts?!
@MultiKswift
Жыл бұрын
I don't know which state you picked that Scituate comes from. But if it's Massachusetts it's sit-chew-it (NOT skit-chew-it). The "c" is silent
@RoofTopRenegade
Жыл бұрын
I did pretty bad, but i got wilkes-barre and schuylkill, whcich are the only ones i need to know in everyday
@Machodave2020
Жыл бұрын
That leads me to believe you live in or around Philly or have family around here.
@RoofTopRenegade
Жыл бұрын
@@Machodave2020 well puzzled, internet stranger
@Abbyxx812
Жыл бұрын
Having my bf play this game. It's gonna be great. He's not gonna get most of them. Only one he'll get is Kissimmee cause he lived there.
@TimeLordWereWolf
Жыл бұрын
Was so excited to hear about this video at your Milwaukee show, even more excited to watch it!!!
@carversalad7441
Жыл бұрын
I don't know if the Scituate he's talking about is somewhere else, but in MA the "c" is silent.
@gretchenhill7366
Жыл бұрын
There is a "Scituate" in RI, too.
@jestyr5979
Жыл бұрын
i used to live near both albany and lebanon in oregon, all three of those get mispronounce by people sometimes and it really showed how out of town they were, also i have cousins that live in Puyallup and i only heard the city name for years before seeing it's spelling so i had a slight advantage at getting it correct
@jestyr5979
Жыл бұрын
i'm also going to Naches in washington for a family reunion soon, and that's not how it's pronounced either
@joehung1552
Жыл бұрын
I got (Will Ammett) because of the Small town Murder podcast.
@darnellrobinson8159
Жыл бұрын
In kentucky we have Lebanon and Lebanon Junction. They are not pronounced the same.
@jrpapi5
Жыл бұрын
How do you pronounce Albany and Lebanon? We have rhose two here in New York also
@jestyr5979
Жыл бұрын
@@jrpapi5 for albany its more of how the regional accent pronounces "all", oregon and new york pronounce those different, and ive just heard lebanon pronounced like the one in the middle east and in oregon it's just leba-nin, i've never heard how new york pronounces that one
@douglasthemagician9230
Жыл бұрын
Thank you again for coming to Boston definitely the coolest celebrity I meet after a show just seamed like a hang out with friends the way you talk to everyone in line was so cool was a great show as well
@onegirlarmy4401
Жыл бұрын
Coeur d'Alene is French for "Lake of Ear" because it's shaped like an ear! Most Idaho people can't spell it though and usually just write CDA.
@zacheggert7557
Жыл бұрын
Yeah...no. That's definitely not what it means in French. Nice try, though.
@scarletbard6511
Жыл бұрын
"Lake of ear" sounds like something a witch would need for a potion.
@mpea1043
Жыл бұрын
The Lake of the Ear is the lake near the town. I think that person must be from California.
@boghag
Жыл бұрын
According to wikipedia Alene is a stiching awl. And Coeur d'Alene (heart of the stiching awl) is the French name of a native tribe.
@diamondflaw
Жыл бұрын
You’re thinking of Pend Oreille, a deeper lake to the north, but the name actually refers to the dangling earrings of the native people. The resemblance to a ear from the air is incidental - but if you turn it south up it looks like a sea monster.
@alexesloan8325
10 ай бұрын
“Do THEY know what it means?” “No, of course not, it’s Idaho.” As an Idahoan I can say that yes, we indeed have no idea what it means.
@CatherineDupuis87
Жыл бұрын
I'll never understand why people put an H in Worcester.
@Ben_Brainard
Жыл бұрын
The sauce
@CatherineDupuis87
Жыл бұрын
@@Ben_Brainard Ok but the sauce doesn't have an H either, unless you count the one in "shire."
@WolphinexClips
10 ай бұрын
I love these videos along with his shorts. He reminds me of a Floridian Jacksepticeye
@RaziMob
Жыл бұрын
You spelt Tooele wrong lol
@PheobeKate-1111
Жыл бұрын
That's what I was going to say....
@Irisarc1
Жыл бұрын
I saw this in "previews" and what you did with is perfect, Ben The one woman said that she didn't even get her home state right. I thought, "There's no place don't know at least roughly where it is or exactly how to say it. I wonder why she didn't know her own state correctly." Then I realized. I have lived in Oklahoma all my life, and we have WEATHER. I grew up watching at least one out of three meteorologists point out what cities and towns were in danger of tornado damage soon. When you see a map with all the place names written on it for a few hours or more on TV a couple of times a year, and hear all the names pronounced with a little fear (the good meteorologist) or a little excitement (the other two), you learn how to say them and where they are pretty indelibly. Fun game, man.
@m0thernature730
10 ай бұрын
Seeing Mackinac made my heart happy I was able to go “I know this one!” For one of the places I’m going to be honest I’m Michigan we all have collectively decided to forget it’s normal spelling and Mackinac and Mackinaw is just the natural correction to our brains I saw the name yelled “mackinaw!” Then did a double take because i forgot how it was spelled. You see mack and it autocorrects when you live in Michigan.
@dragonsreingsupreme1
10 ай бұрын
The amount of pacific northwest names brings me joy lol
@theheathen9415
5 ай бұрын
I live in a weirdly named place but the pronunciation is spot on. However my mom lives by Hellfercertain lmao
@avitallichtenfeld813
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Niskayuna which is a suburb of Schenectady, both in NYS. When I was little I lived in Metairie LA. Please use these it would make me happy.
@cardengixoth6878
Жыл бұрын
1:43 D'awwwwww look at the cute pitty! Awww such a pretty puppy....
@michaelbunswick2218
Жыл бұрын
Loved seeing Russia and Versailles on there. Although I’d have liked to see their reaction to the pronunciation of it. Lima Wapakoneta Cuyahoga New Bremen A few interesting Ohio towns
@alyw5607
Жыл бұрын
As someone who grew up near Weaubleau and Versailles, MO, thank you for this 😂
@ladykoiwolfe
Жыл бұрын
I was disappointed more of them didn't try to say Schuylkill. It's a lovely place...or it was when I went to school over there. I'm also surprised Wilkes-Barre is so hard. I'd still like to see them try Penn Argyle.
@Helen247
Жыл бұрын
I worked at the Cayuga Nature Center and we all said Kay-ou-ga... I guess pronunciations have slipped. Surprised we didn't have more from NY/LI ❤😂 those plus PA were like a wave from a friend. Thank you Ben!
@johnkarr9446
6 ай бұрын
I live in a village in north central Illinois spelled Saunemin pronounced (Saw-No-Men)
@stoneofelements
Жыл бұрын
As a native Oregonian, Willamette Valley is the territory spanning between the coastal area and the mountains. There is a city called Willamette, we have the Willamette Falls, and streets named after Willamette. Champoeg, Chehalem, The Dalles, Lebanon.... other REALLY good names. Why the whole valley when naming cities, though?
@CRTNDN
Жыл бұрын
As your fellow Floridian... not me screaming "Kissimmee" at the screen 🤣🤣💖
@sharalakid
Жыл бұрын
I'm shocked no one go Worcester, it was in your videos multiple times
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