As a Texan, I started singing the second I saw Luckenbach. "Let's go to Lukenbach Teexass, Willie n Waylon and the booys.... This successful life we're livin got us feudin like the Hatfields and McCoys..."
How did the San Antonio lady mess up Nacogdoches!? Its even the name of a regularly used street and exit on 410. You ain't never exited on nacogdoches lady!?!?! I'm side eyeing her something fierce right now
My only guess is that it’s probably one of those things where she so used to hearing and not ever being asked to spell it that seeing it spelled out just kind of threw her and I’m saying this as some from a state that also has VERY weird place names. For example, even though I wasn’t born in the state I currently reside in, it has been home to my permanent address since about 3 weeks before my 1st birthday almost 30 years which means I felt I have mastered or at the very least learned the phonic and linguistic logic behind the naming process, so that I couldn’t be TOO tripped up when I discovered some place I’ve never heard of. Therefore, you can imagine my shock when I learned that these three different places in my state known as Reading, North Reading, and Readville are NOT all pronounced the same way even though logic would dictate all three these places would be pronounced the same way. However, only two out the three of them are and to make matters even more confusing the 2 places with the same pronunciation aren’t even done in the default way you would assume.
Problem is Texas land has been owned by the Germans, Spaniards, Natives, Mexico, and the French. Sooo many languages kinda make up our city names. Edit: Point is a lot of different cultures settled into Texas. We have a complicated history and even more complicated street/town/city names.
Cynthia Baker Bexar would have been perfect!! Waco is more we’ll know now because of the Gaines’s though. It’s not as funny to see people try anymore LOL!
Exactly!!! I knew how to pronounce it before I even moved here from the Arizona mountains 25 years ago...of course my daddy was born and raised in a little town outside Paris during the Depression so I grew up with biscuits and gravy, greens, chicken fried steak, chow chow, even vinegar pie, lol, so moving here was like coming home. Thank God for Texas!!!
A lot of us Texans pronounce Palacios in different ways depending on where you are from in the state. I think it should be pronounced just like it sounds in Spanish.
To be fair a good chunk of our cities in this state are like that. Even the city natives pronounce many of the cities different. I've heard most of these cities they've listed pronounced many a different way even when i was in them
I've lived in DFW, Corpus Christi, Houston and Austin, so I got all of these correct! The rule seems to be that when you move to a new town in Texas, you've got some pronunciations to learn.
Friend's mom was a Mexia native and told us this joke: Two men are driving into town, and as they pass the sign, they begin arguing over how the town's name is pronounced. They're hungry, so they decide to go settle the argument by asking the server at the drive-thru. After pulling up and placing their order, the driver asks the server, "Could you settle an argument for me and my friend about how this place is pronounced? Say it slowly, please." Young woman looks at them, bumfuzzled, then says patiently, "Daaaaaaairyyyy Queeeeeeeen."
Native Texan born and raised and I knew all of these. The town of Nacogdoches even has a song you are taught in elementary school on how to spell it. We gotta lot of state pride!
Idk, are we talking about the actual state or the people? Cus the people are highly enforced by Texas law and arrest too many people for stupid petty crimes. It's #3 I believe on the list.
@@Tylerfreemanmusic our government does. we've drawn to conclusions. it's the senator and his people who don't care. our governor has done all he could. the best he can do now is wait til next governor election
I went to Stephen F Austin which is not in Austin, but Nacogdoches. Our rival school was across the state line in Louisiana (pronounced LoozyAnna) in a town called Natchitoches (pronounced Nack-uh-dish). Then I graduated college and moved out of state and finally learned that phonics are a thing. Who knew that the letters of the alphabet actually corresponded to specific sounds?
Nah we haven't been pronouncing them wrong others that aren't from Texas can't pronounce these places the way we pronounce them. I'm from Los Fresnos and live in West Texas so my scale of this state and it's towns is vast
Kinda weird, first time I’ve actually heard anyone not within 100 miles of Iraan actually ever say it correctly. Never thought it would be announced on YT. Good job for the people who made this list.
I was off a few but I got most of em. The trick is applying a germanic twist to an already southern-esque twang. Whilst including a brush of Spanish, a sprig of Native American, and 1 drop of French.
There are a lot of German and Czech town's in TX. I'm from Corpus Christi Texas and raised in the Violet area that my Czech and German ancestors helped build. We love our crazy names!
Boerne is named for Ludwig Börne and was probably originally pronounced the German way but people got tired of explaining the correct pronunciation to their Anglo neighbors and just said "y'all know what? We're from 'Bernie'....just call it 'Bernie' and let's go get a beer."
Now I'm not mad because many people don't understand that Texas has a lot of German towns, and you have to say it in a mixed German and southern accent
I sure love my great beautiful state of Texas. We have so many great cultures that have settled here and have been a main staple to our lives. I celebrate everything because I was born and raised on the island and got to celebrate with all my different friends. That's one thing that is special about Galveston, you can eat everything from Pozole and Pupusas to Speitzel to kolaches. Have your friends from Jamaica, Trinidad, Mexico, El Salvador, Africa, the Holy land, and your hillbilly Joe's all in one room! I love it!
I'm a Texan and recognize some of these cities/towns, and Nacogdoches is infamous for people who grew up in Texas and learned about the Texan revolution when we seperated from Mexico.
And the university is named for the most famous military leader out of that war! Stephen F. Austin. We have a statue fountain of him on campus, we lovingly call him Surfin' Steve.
@@spencermcbeth6624 It is a spanish word. It is also used as a name of Mexican women. We know how to pronounce it correctly and it is not "Refurio". You guys put that extra "r" in there because you cannot pronounce the "g". It is Re-Foo-he-oh
I’m living in South Carolina now but I’m deeply rooted in Texas. When I interviewed for a job I was asked are you friendly? I said “friendly? I’m from Texas!”
I lived in Mexia, Muh-hay-uh is official but Muh-hair is also fairly common, We started accepting new weather forecasters when they learned how to say Waxahachie correctly.
As a Texan, I got almost all of these wrong because we all say them different depending on our regional accent (DFW represent!) My personal faves, although not cities, are Erath county and Schlitterbahn
Elise Gray Waxahachie = Way-xahachie Boerne = Burn Nacadoches = Nacado-cheese Also pronounce Weatherford as Witherfurr’d and Austin as Awe-stun I do have a slight Texhoma accent though, which might add to it
@@LifeinLithuania I just moved to Texas (DFW!!) from CA & besides y'alls crazy ass highway system , I went to San Antonio to visit family in Bexar (Bear, yes Bear not BeXar) county! Give me time and I will be Texan! Bless your hearts!!
Fellow DFW resident, born and raised. I got a bunch wrong, but I knew when I clicked on the video that not only would Waxahachie be in here, but people would mess it up. 😁
HONESTLY!!! i went to school in san marcos and worked in new braunfels and took the gruene exit ALL the time. it's literally so close to san antonio, i was shocked when she had no clue
Glad they put Iraan in there. Cool little town with some rumors of some kind of secret underground base. Also the adopted hometown of the cartoonist who drew Alley Oop, VT Hamlin. Named after Ira and Ann Yates.
All these Southerners, and not a one of them recognized the name of a Waylon and Willie song when it was right in front of them! "Let's go to LUKE-en-bock, Texas!" With Waylon and Willie, and the boys....
"You know what this word doesn't have? A G. Where should it go? Just throw it in there somewhere. Let's throw a G in there but not be able to hear it." 🤣
I'm in my 30s, born and raised in Texas. My family has live here since the late 1800s and, I call it San Antone. It's a very common and acceptable abbreviation.
I have a bunch of ancestors from Texas with the last name Kuykendall. It wasn't till moving to Texas that I learned it's pronounced "Kurr-ken-doll." You know, with an R. ....Obviously.
Somebody revoke the Texan's Texas card... Nacogdoches is literally the oldest town in Texas the birthplace of Texas and how can you not know that one? How can you listen to country music and not know Luckenbach Where's Bexar? Also I'm Texan and didn't know several of these
I'm a 41YO Texan, never lived anywhere else, trust me, we screw with names on purpose! I really wish they'd have put Pfluegerville in just so we see their "What? Why is there a P!?!?"
Folks gotta realize that we have a few different language influences--English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Native dialects, etc. Depending on the area, the originating community, etc will lend to different pronunciations. Just cause it's in Texas doesn't mean it's gonna be pronounced with the Texan drawl, or twang accents(yes, we have two different Southern accents to Texas itself).
