Pronounce "Guanella"

[2giqs]

and in South Jersey:

Buena and Buena Vista
(Atlantic County)
It's not pronounced the Spanish way. Pronounce the 'ue' part of the word like you'd say "you". So, B(you)na. Or, as NJ.com writes, "Byoona"

[76dorihe]

I'm sitting in Wally La La's laundry at the moment. I asked the gentleman cleaning if he was Wally and found out that Wally is a girl, his daughter. I assume it's pronounced Whá-lee, not Wall-eye, or Wall-eé. There must be a bakery nearby because the smell of burnt crumbs is getting sucked inside because of the dryers causing negative pressure. Gwa-néll-ah.

[greenonion]

I dare any Coloradoans,

Other Colorado knowledge, Coloradoan is a newspaper. People who live here are Coloradans.

Aha! I stand corrected, and you are correct, sir. That probably came from me perusing the Ft Collins online newspaper since my daughter is there at CSU. Thanks for the correction!

[LURE]

do people get this upset when someone's own name is pronounced in a way you wouldn't expect?

should you pronounce that persons name the way it more correctly should be in your eyes?

[greenonion]

I'm sitting in Wally La La's laundry at the moment. I asked the gentleman cleaning if he was Wally and found out that Wally is a girl, his daughter. I assume it's pronounced Whá-lee, not Wall-eye, or Wall-eé. There must be a bakery nearby because the smell of burnt crumbs is getting sucked inside because of the dryers causing negative pressure. Gwa-néll-ah.

Then who is La La?

[greenonion]

do people get this upset when someone's own name is pronounced in a way you wouldn't expect?

should you pronounce that persons name the way it more correctly should be in your eyes?

As long as they don't combine Pid with Stu, I'm ok with whatever.

[Burkart]

I dare any Coloradoans,

Other Colorado knowledge, Coloradoan is a newspaper. People who live here are Coloradans.

Of course, if you crack open a book written by a Coloradan before the 1930s, chances are the author refers to himself as a Coloradoan. The FoCo paper is an artifact of the old standard, not unlike how the fossilized old geezers who say Colo-RAD-o will be regarded in a decade or two, after Colo-ROD-o completes its inexorable rise.

Speaking of archaic localisms, nobody's brought up the good old "Peblo" pronunciation of Pueblo yet!

[SkaredShtles]

Oh - and FTR - it's pronounced "Goy-ott"

[Dave B]

This is all well and good, but I'd still like to know why TF Couch Street in Portland, OR is pronounced "cooch."

Also
ArKANSAS = Are-can-saw
KANSAS = cans-ASS (emphasis mine)

And also
Why some Texans pronounce it more Te-shus with a silent or almost imperceptible "x," I have my theory about Texans in general, but...

[cougar]

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[timisimaginary]

it's a good thing this isn't a sailing forum, it would drive you guys mad. boatswain, forecastle, mainsail, topgallant, bowline, starboard, leeward... the first time you hear them pronounced, you'd think you were hearing a foreign language.

if i want to know how a name or word is pronounced, i just wait for it to become a jeopardy answer. alex trebek always steers me right.