Hard to pronounce city street names

[Rothman]

Houston Street in Manhattan is pronounced as if it starts with the word "house," not like the city in Texas.

Texans are the ones that say it incorrectly.  There are other House-ton Streets around, but only one Hews-ton.

They aren't even named for the same person. Houston, Texas is named for Sam Houston. Houston Street in Manhattan is named for William Houstoun (yes with that spelling). So them being pronounced differently makes sense.

Nah.  Sam Houston pronounced his name wrong.

[Dirt Roads]

Houston Street in Manhattan is pronounced as if it starts with the word "house," not like the city in Texas.

Texans are the ones that say it incorrectly.  There are other House-ton Streets around, but only one Hews-ton.

They aren't even named for the same person. Houston, Texas is named for Sam Houston. Houston Street in Manhattan is named for William Houstoun (yes with that spelling). So them being pronounced differently makes sense.

Nah.  Sam Houston pronounced his name wrong.

You'all are just spelling it wrong.  In West Virginia, it's spelled "Hugheston".  Most of the Hughes in West Virginia were actually Huguenots, but some were Jewish descendants from Wales.  I was going to make a joke about how the Dutch would spell Houston, but the Dutch word "huis" (house) is pronounced the same in both of our languages.

[Rothman]

Houston Street in Manhattan is pronounced as if it starts with the word "house," not like the city in Texas.

Texans are the ones that say it incorrectly.  There are other House-ton Streets around, but only one Hews-ton.

They aren't even named for the same person. Houston, Texas is named for Sam Houston. Houston Street in Manhattan is named for William Houstoun (yes with that spelling). So them being pronounced differently makes sense.

Nah.  Sam Houston pronounced his name wrong.

You'all are just spelling it wrong.  In West Virginia, it's spelled "Hugheston".  Most of the Hughes in West Virginia were actually Huguenots, but some were Jewish descendants from Wales.  I was going to make a joke about how the Dutch would spell Houston, but the Dutch word "huis" (house) is pronounced the same in both of our languages.

I can get behind changing Houston, TX to Hugheston.

[wriddle082]

Nashville's most infamously mispronounced street is Demonbreun St.  The correct pronunciation is "Duh-MUN-bree-UN" , but a lot of folks pronounce it "DEE-mun-BROO-un" .  Another one is LaFayette St., which is not the French pronunciation but rather "Luh-FAY-it" .  Same goes for the little town NE of Nashville.

Two counties south of Nashville is Maury County.  It's pronounced like "Murry"  instead of like the first name of the talk show host.

[Road Hog]

Rolater Road in Frisco, TX is continually mispronounced, and it's all because of the newbies. Should be "RAW-luh-ter" but instead it's now suddenly "ROLL-LAY-ter."

[kphoger]

Rolater Road in Frisco, TX is continually mispronounced, and it's all because of the newbies. Should be "RAW-luh-ter" but instead it's now suddenly "ROLL-LAY-ter."

I guessed it correctly!  But, honestly, that's because I've spent way too much time perusing the Texas Almanac Pronunciation Guide (.pdf warning), so by now I'm starting to get a good feel for Texas placename pronunciations.

[Henry]

I think I might of mentioned it before, but Bearss Avenue in Tampa, Florida is pronounced Bur ss.  Rhymes with purse.

I always said it exactly like the football team, and wondered how they could mess up the spelling.

Around Pittsburgh, there is a river, plus some streets and towns named Monongahela. I'm torn between "mon-un" and "ma-non" for the first two syllables, with the rest being "ga-hee-la"; which one is right?

[kphoger]

I always said it exactly like the football team