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#1707611 - 06/06/12 08:00 PM
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I think Gobble's Knob is just the hill where they do Groundhog Day. The town is Punxatawney. TJ might be able to verify that.
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#1707613 - 06/06/12 08:00 PM
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Not a town name, wish it was. But a lake in Massachusets
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchoggagogg Sounds like it was named by someone in the process of drowning in it 
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#1707614 - 06/06/12 08:00 PM
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I know a guy that used to coach in Dimebox.....(never been there or Muleshoe).
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#1707677 - 06/06/12 08:37 PM
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Truth Or Consequences, NM Some trivia. T or C was originally Hot Springs, NM. The high school there is still Hot Springs High School, actually. There was apparently a show on TV in the 50's called Truth or Consequences, and they offered some cash prize for a town willing to rename itself. Hot Springs took them up on it. My mom remembers her high school band (from a couple hundred miles away) marching in the big parade they had to celebrate the occassion. And I know lots of people from Muleshoe. It's just about 50 miles from here. You'd be shocked at how many people who 'ain't from around here' pronounce it mull-ess-hoe. That always cracks me up.
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#1707780 - 06/07/12 11:52 AM
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BlueBalls, PA
Little Egg Harbor, NJ
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#1707800 - 06/07/12 12:31 PM
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BlueBalls, PA
Little Egg Harbor, NJ It's actually BlueBall, PA I think I am up to six places named in this thread that I have actually been to.....
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#1707807 - 06/07/12 12:38 PM
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Sorry Teej...  The singular is a lot less scary than the plural....
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#1707811 - 06/07/12 12:43 PM
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North, South Carolina
Ninety Six, SC
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#1707814 - 06/07/12 12:47 PM
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North East, PA - which is funny only because it is located in the North WEST corner of the state.
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#1707856 - 06/07/12 01:29 PM
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How about the funny way people (legitimately) pronounce their town?
Pierre (PEER) SD
Beatrice (bee-AT-ris) NE
Norfolk (NOR-fork) NE
Madrid (MAD-rid) IA
Nevada (nuh-VAY-duh) IA
Just what I could come up with off the top of my head. I am sure there are places like this all around the country.
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#1707859 - 06/07/12 01:30 PM
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West, Texas
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#1707862 - 06/07/12 01:34 PM
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How about the funny way people (legitimately) pronounce their town?
Pierre (PEER) SD
Beatrice (bee-AT-ris) NE
Norfolk (NOR-fork) NE
Madrid (MAD-rid) IA
Nevada (nuh-VAY-duh) IA
Just what I could come up with off the top of my head. I am sure there are places like this all around the country. The one that bugs me the most: Humble (umble), Texas To me, it's one thing when a non-word that becomes a word for a placename has a non-sensical pronunciation (if people who live there say its pronounced that way, that' fine). But "humble" is a word in the English language and i don't say it "umble". :climbing off soapbox"
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#1707866 - 06/07/12 01:37 PM
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Horseheads, NY
Slaughter Neck, DE
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#1707872 - 06/07/12 01:45 PM
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Cheddar, SC
Strawberry, SC
Possum Kingdom, SC
Bat Cave, NC
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#1707873 - 06/07/12 01:47 PM
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How about the funny way people (legitimately) pronounce their town?
Pierre (PEER) SD
Beatrice (bee-AT-ris) NE
Norfolk (NOR-fork) NE
Madrid (MAD-rid) IA
Nevada (nuh-VAY-duh) IA
Just what I could come up with off the top of my head. I am sure there are places like this all around the country. The one that bugs me the most: Humble (umble), Texas To me, it's one thing when a non-word that becomes a word for a placename has a non-sensical pronunciation (if people who live there say its pronounced that way, that' fine). But "humble" is a word in the English language and i don't say it "umble". :climbing off soapbox" it's pronounce Umble because no one from Texas would ever admit to being "Humble"...don't believe me, just ask them (Texas native, BTW)
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#1707875 - 06/07/12 01:50 PM
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Ha....you're right. To me, it would be the equivalent of someone in "Frogville, Oklahoma" telling you "no, it's not 'frogville'...it's 'frooogville'."
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#1707880 - 06/07/12 01:57 PM
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I grew up in Barkeyville, PA. Named after a man named Barkey, not because we had a lot of dogs.
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#1707894 - 06/07/12 02:18 PM
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almost forgot...Due West, SC
it's in the middle of nowhere, so it really isn't due west of anything!
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#1707902 - 06/07/12 02:27 PM
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I grew up in Barkeyville, PA. Named after a man named Barkey, not because we had a lot of dogs. Just west of me on the interstate. I have been there and never actually heard any dogs, now I know why.
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#1707912 - 06/07/12 02:42 PM
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In Florida Miami is My-am-ee
In Oklahoma Miami is My-am-uh
And yes we really to have Frogville
Also
on the east side of the state is Porter
on the west side of the state is Retrop
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#1707914 - 06/07/12 02:44 PM
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Louisville, KY = Luhavul
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#1707916 - 06/07/12 02:45 PM
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Cairo, GA - pronounced Kayrow -like the syrup - high school football team is the Syrupmakers.
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