I’ve always been annoyed about how DuBois, Pennsylvania is pronounced. Everyone I knew would say “Dew-Boys”. Uh, okay. I mean, people with that last name must facepalm all the time over that.
I mean, I know most people would just call the Schuylkill Express the Surekill Express as a joke, but even if they didn’t, I guess the usual pronunciation approximates how it was said in Dutch (I guess?) - skool-kil. Also, it’s not a common last name that I know of. DuBois, on the other hand…
PA has its share of oddness…Intercourse, PA, Blue Ball, PA, and Middlesex township…all the things named Beaver around State College…
But it’s really just a Pennsylvanian thing. There’s Lancasters in Ohio and California that are pronounced"LAN-caster." I think it’s because there was significant German population in Pennsylvania since before the Revolution.
You guys complain about names like “Worcestershire” and then take a much simpler British city name and pronounce it nonsensically. Why so spiteful?
I’ve always been annoyed about how DuBois, Pennsylvania is pronounced. Everyone I knew would say “Dew-Boys”. Uh, okay. I mean, people with that last name must facepalm all the time over that.
I mean, I know most people would just call the Schuylkill Express the Surekill Express as a joke, but even if they didn’t, I guess the usual pronunciation approximates how it was said in Dutch (I guess?) - skool-kil. Also, it’s not a common last name that I know of. DuBois, on the other hand…
PA has its share of oddness…Intercourse, PA, Blue Ball, PA, and Middlesex township…all the things named Beaver around State College…
Because you taxed our tea.
But it’s really just a Pennsylvanian thing. There’s Lancasters in Ohio and California that are pronounced"LAN-caster." I think it’s because there was significant German population in Pennsylvania since before the Revolution.
If in doubt, always blame the Germans.
You should look up how we pronounce Worcester, Massachusetts
I can’t imagine how the pronunciation could be any worster.