the trick is to cram em together and not pronounce some of the letters. I was born and raised in Texas and still had trouble with some of those names lol. Galveston born but Houston raised, God bless Texas and God bless the south, ain't nowhere like it.
Nope it’s named after the widow ladies who used to run the hotel/restaurant there in the old days. The Spanish name for widow is viuda which of you say it with a Texas accent ends up sounding like Byoo-da. So that’s where it comes from. 🤠
If people mispronounce this, you know they are not from Texas or at least did not attend grade school in Texas. Hopefully, all the kids still learn about Jim Bowie and his knife. In Austin, we have Bowie High School
I am a Texan, living in Texas. Y'all picked a few more of the 'obscure' ones-- I probably got half right. I did get Buda and Elgin 'cause that's near where I live. The challenge in Texas is that you had all these different people from different countries with different cultures and languages coming to Texas. (If you come to visit San Antonio, go to the Institute of Texan Cultures and you will see what I mean.) So you have English, Spanish and German (primarily) town names-- but you may also have others as well. And then you have English speaking folks who had never been exposed to any other language but English, trying to pronounce those Spanish and German town names-- sometimes with disastrous (or hilarious) results. This is why we have Salado (Sa-LAY-do) and Refugio (Refrurio)-- although how do we explain Pedernales (PER-de-na-les) or Manchaca (MAN-shack)? (This last one is reverting back to its original pronunciation of Man-CHA-ca.)
@@frogbysachs7559: Yes, I lived in Austin for 34 years. Now we live in Bastrop, so I am familiar with all the little towns. Also, I grew up in Houston and my father was a drug/chem rep so he travelled all over Texas and I heard a lot of town names growing up.
So weird. I’m from Waco TX, and there’s a town called Bosqueville and street called Bosque Blvd with a Target I used to work at and we say it all the time and everyone pronounces it Boss-KEE. You ain’t changing my mind lol.
two guys were going up the interstate to dallas once and they were coming up to mexia. they argued over what to call it. so they stopped at the dairy queen for lunch and figured they would ask a local how to say it. one said to the waitress; "could you please tell us,slowly and carefully, just where are we?" "sure! D A A A A A A A IRY QU E E E E E E E EN!"
'S what I always thought, but I know you can get towns where folks don't all agree 100%. Sure wish they'd tried Nacogdoches, where I went to college. I grew up in the Midlothian/Cleburne/Waxahachie area. Nothin' too obscure there.
Today I learned that I've heard more of these pronounced than seen them spelled. I kept seeing the name and being like "Man, I dunno what that is." Then when they'd get it right, I was like "Huh, I never knew that's how it was spelled, but yeah I've heard of that." But hey, I've lived my whole life in a Texas town that didn't even appear on a map for the first half of my life, so what do I know? :P
I am a born and bread Texan, and I get them wrong all the time. When it comes to Texas, if you aren’t from that area, you aren’t going to know how the smaller towns are pronounced. If you happen to stop in a local Buc-ee’s on your travels, don’t be afraid to ask the townsfolk~
San Antonio is the seat of Bexar County. Sometimes, the bigger cities exist in multiple counties. For instance, Houston, where I live, extends beyond Harris County into a small portion of Montgomery County.
I live in Bexar county and I remember as a kid, someone once told me that the county gots its name because Mr. Bear would sign his name with just an “X.” So when he made the land purchase, he signed “X” and the sellers corrected it to “BeXar,” thus Bexar county gots its name. 😂😂😂
San Antonio de Bejar. (BEh-har) was the original name of the city. Bexar is now the county in which it sits, although it used to be much larger . became Bexar San Antonio is
I've always thought it was pronounced kwih-TAH-kee, thinking it was a Comanche word but then when I went to Caprock Canyons the locals insisted it was pronounced Kitty-Kway. Well I'll be damned, haha.
I couldn't even begin to count the number times I've sped through that town to/from my home town located in North Central TX. Quitaque was located on the fastest route from my hometown to my duty station located West of Clovis, NM.
TX has influences in it from different cultures. We have the Mexican Hispanic culture for some of the pronunciation of the towns cities, and we also have a German for a lot of the towns and cities that are also name. Then all of a sudden you have a German-Spanish town pronunciation where it’s a little of both. But I can say that being born and raised in TX it depends on what part of TX your from bc that’ll determine how you say it. Ex. People in San Antonio pronounce Buda like Buddha
I was born and mostly grew up in & around Bowie, still have tons of relatives there. First time I pronounced the musician David Bowie's name, I was quickly corrected. Told them that poor man was mispronouncing his name!
Alright. You've done Texas twice now. We need a Louisiana town names video, and New Orleans street names don't count. Louisiana and Arkansas (at least I don't remember an Arkansas video) are the only Southern states you haven't covered.
I didn't know most of these. So far, I've gotten 1: Bosque. I could tell from the spelling (in Spanish, it means either "woods" or "forest") technically two, since Elgin is pronounced like one might expect, but I wasn't trying to guess that one.
Because you have a combination of French Cajun in the east, German in the central hill country, and Spanish everywhere, and don't forget the native American influence
@@faiththomas1749 1. I live next door to Cali and have been to Cali. Meh! 2. I'm not on the staff, so I'm not part of that "Ya'll" bit. Closest I can claim is that my Dad was stationed at Little Rock AFB for a few years, so I got to "enjoy Arkansas" for a bit. (I did have a nightmare that my almost college aged daughter decided she wanted to go to University of Arkansas and become a Razorback. As someone who went to Arizona State, University of Arizona would have been preferable.)
They put that in the first one. Pretty sure they pronounced it wrong, too. Woxahachie? Never heard of that! Of course, I’m not a local and could easily be wrong.
The bosque got to me... I'm a Texan and I was looking at it and just repeating BosQUE... Its cause of all the Mexican influences on Texas towns so its kay
I lived in Texas all the way up through high school and I didn't know any of these lol although I can say from personal experience that Texas is huge and there's a lot of obscure small towns in the middle of nowhere
I live in manor (from the last episode) but I've gone to an Elgin school all my life so I've known those two all my life, but why cant anyone tell me why Pflugerville is not on here
Texas BBQ in Wichata Falls is the best in the world. At the Pioneer BBQ place not far from the Air Force Base. Now the regular Pioneer Restaurant has the best country fried steak and pinto beans you ever ate. Ok well, truthfully the last time I was there it was 1985. They didn't even have a water fall then. I'm pretty sure they fixed that. Hope the Pioneer Restaurants are still there and just as good. I consider myself an honorary Texan because 2 of my daughters were born there. The third daughter was born in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She is a yankee. Bless her heart! But I am not an honorary UPer. I only had 1 born there so. I wouldn't mind though. The nicest people. Just loved them. It's just too cold for me. Tooo cold. And walking in snow shoes sucks. So does climbing out a window of a house that is now an igloo. Easier than trying to shove your way through 10 ft of snow at the front and back door. We had a platform attached to the back of the house just under the window with a snow shovel attached. We though who was the crazy who put that there? Not crazy at all. BRILLIANT!!!!
I thought Bosque was pronounced boss-key just cause theres a long significant road called that in Waco. I figured it was the same pronounciation but I guess not.
I've actually been to Elgin as I don't live more than an hour away. My dad lives in Bastrop and si we gotta drive through Elgin to get there. And Manor from the last video is around the same area.
I pass Buda every month or two when visiting family (I live in San Antonio, visiting north of Austin), and Buda's when we know it's time to jump on the pickle parkway lmao
Please do a whole series on just Texas towns. There are so many ones that people don’t know how to say. Ex: Tivoli, Cuero, Pflugerville, Bonham, Pearsall, etc
When I saw Bowie:history connection Me: Definitely James Bowie (he was the commander at the Alamo but became ill so William B. Travis took over and James sadly was killed on his death bed by Mexican soldiers)
In the Houston area everything is easy. It's when you get west a couple hours where it gets difficult. However, usually the people I travel with don't know I'm saying it wrong :)