@OtherMichael @SteampunkBanana
For a grand total of eleven buffaloes, I will take my prize in ground Bison meat.
Milan, MI
they say it like “MY-lin,” though.
I saw Lollapalooza 93 there at the motor speedway. It was great. Except a freak storm blew through right at the beginning of Dinosaur Jr’s set and the tarp roof blew off during his cover of “Just Like Heaven.” The roadies had to pull Mascis off the stage, he didn’t care he was getting rained on while he was wired for sound.
but otherwise great.
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Oh man, I remember listening as WRIF’s Arthur Penthollow and Dick the Bruiser cold-called some little old lady there to ask about why it was called “Climax” live on the air back around '85. Lots of heavy breathing from The Bruiser.
Ann Arbor
when I attended Angel Elementary, they taught us that the two surveyors (or founders?) both had wives named Ann, so they were gonna just name it that, but they felt the trees there were somehow exceptional, so they tacked on the “Arbor.” Seems like they should have made it “Ann’s Arbor,” or “Anns’ Arbor,” but in typing that out I find it becomes confusing, so perhaps discretion was the better part of valor, after all.
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this.
it ain’t just hicks that say it that way. alla dose cultured Noo Yawkas say it like dat, too.
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Sweet Baby Jesus (Ont.), that is beautiful!
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New York City’s second-smallest cemetery on 25th and Broadway inters General William Jenkins Worth, who not only spawned Fort Worth, Texas, but Lake Worth, Texas, the village of Worth, Illinois, Worth County, Georgia, Worthville, Kentucky, Worth County, Missouri and the Lake Worth Lagoon in Florida, and consequently, the city of Lake Worth, Florida on its shores.
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That’s the way they pronounce the one in Tennessee also.
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You’d think that would be someplace in Minnesota where they do ice fishing.
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This is probably a good thread to add my favorite memory device for the pronunciation of a place name:
It’s Willamette, dammit!
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We used to always stop at a little diner called **
THE ALAMO
** in Arkansas.
Here’s the backstory:
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4224
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Was the food any good?
Do the names Arkansas and Kansas have the same root?
Which one is pronounced incorrectly?
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The sign was in giant red glittery letters and there were photos of Tony and Susan Alamo all over the walls with them dressed in these over the top outrageous getups. I think we found it kitchy. Reading the whole story of it all, it’s disturbing that we gave that place any money. I was really young when we used to stop there; my guess is it was cheap and near the highway and in the right place for a pit stop on our journey - plus easy to remember it from trip to trip as it stood out. I tried to find a photo of it but cannot.
Here’s some images:
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https://plus.google.com/111362859306985739949/about?gl=uk&hl=en
California in Middlesbrough, UK
Home to both Jimmy Stuart and Edward Abbey:
There’s also a university there, too - Not to be confused with Indiana University or University of Pennsylvania:
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This is where I live, now (and why didn’t I think of it before?):
San Diego, Texas
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