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.
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..."
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."
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!!!
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.
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
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!
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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
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."
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.
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!
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.
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!
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. 😁
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....
Haven’t y’all ever heard of the song “ let’s go to luckenbach Texas with Waylon and willie and the boys…” ??? I was born in Nacogdoches. Y’all should’ve tried to pronounce my town of Colmesneil Tx! 😜
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?
@@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
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
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 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.
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.
Just in my neck of the woods near Victoria,Tx you got Goliad, Tivoli, Cuero, runge, nordheim, yoakum,flatonia and ganado...palacios and refugio are pretty close too
Hey, I got most of these right - and I'm from southern England! (Helps if you like Texas-singer-songwriters and you've been to Luckenbach, Gruene, Waxahachie and Study Butte (well Terlingua!) !
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!?!?"
I am a Texan, living in Central Texas. A lot of the towns y’all had in this video were from my area. I didn’t know a few but I think I knew most of them. This is what happens when you have these different languages (German and Spanish) read and pronounced by people who only knew English. My favourite is Refugio. The Texan pronunciation of this town (re FUYR ee oh) is how English ears heard that guttural ‘g’ in Refugio. My favourite town name is Niederwald (NEE dear wahld). It is in south Central Texas, on the way to San Antonio. The area is mostly pasture land with trees here and there but not a lot. The German immigrants coming here in the 1830’s and 1840’s were stunned by this landscape, so very different from their homeland. They named their town Niederwald (‘never forest’).
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.
And they've all been mashed together to produce the odd pronunciations.
And Chez.
Germany never owned any part of Texas. We had a large influx of German immigration in the late 1800's. They mostly settled in and around hill country.
@@captainjason1157 Schlitterbahn!
Don’t forget the Czechs
As a Texan, I failed more of these than I'd like to admit.
Sadly me too
@@Motodoggo_ Rest in Peace.
Ngl, I'd never even heard of some of those places
@@thecatladytm7172 there are some weird ones too like I live not to far from a city called
DIME BOX, TX
@@thecatladytm7172 Same here.
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..."
Thank the Lord I was not the only one 😂
Yes this! I was singing it too!
Yessss! That’s where I recognized it from. I was trying to remember where I heard it from.
Me too!
Yay, now I don't feel weird singing it in my head.
"Pick a letter and don't pronounce it."
Damn, she's a quick learner.
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."
Lol used to work at the dairy Queen in groesbeck about 12 minutes away from mexia.
I can guarantee this happens more than you think.
I’ve seen this joke somewhere before but it was Louisiana and it was Burger King
I know it slightly different. Greyhound bus. 3 guys. 1 says Mex-ia. 1 says Mah-Hay-ah. 1 says Mah-hare.
@@charlottehall7785 - you've made me wish I knew where and if Phyllis Boone is living so I could tell her!
That is hilarious
If you can't pronounce Luckenbach you never hung out with Waylon and Willie and the boys
Good times...
Forget pronunciation. They even spelled it wrong in the video.
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!!!
Tom Steele 😂😂
Exactly.
That was my thought exactly
Even Texans fight over how to pronounce a few cities. Born in Texas, reared in Texas, and still here.
Which-it-aw, or Which-Ee-tuh?
you should know us all by now...all of us are violent
Boerne is definitly pronounced wrong.
Well this video gets quite a few very wrong.
Yeah, like Mexia. People there call it Meh Hay er. LOL And try Teague on for size.
“someone’s putting the wrong em-pha-sus on the wrong sylla-ble” i died
Same!!
Me too
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
I know! I was so confused, she must be from the south side
How did she mess up Gruene ... its just north of San Antonio... no doubt she has been there
And not knowing Gruene which is down the street from New Braunfels
Miss Mena I was literally just about to comment that, we’ve got streets named after some of these towns 😂 and she still butchered them
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.
"We're Texans and we do what we want." That's it. That's the motto.
At all times.
That's the "official" motto, but "Don't F&&& with Texas" is the real one
Ray Wiley Hubbard has a song- "We're From Texas. Screw you "
Truth
As a waxahachie native, hearing them all mispronounce my hometown is so hilarious 😂
Is that really how you say it?? I grew up in Texas and that’s not how I said it D: The Dallas peeps be sayin it wrong
@@LimegreenSnowstorm either way more people say wox
It’s annoying too. Lol, live there too
Same here
I used to drive to Waxahachie regularly. From Ennis lmao
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.
It should be pronounced the way it's pronounced by the folks who live there.
51% Hispanic population, I agree…
The pronunciation was heavily influenced by the Bohemian (German-Czech) population in the earlier days of the town.
No. Everything should be pronounced in English. Mexico is the OTHER side of the border. 😊
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
Supercalifragilisticexpi Nacogdoches...
😂😂😂
Exactly! Did we go to the same school or something because I'm pert near positive we put those two together where I went to school 😂😂👏🏾
Thoroughly unappreciated comment. :)
Totally hilarious!! I think we must have grown up in the same town! 😂
@Grey Cactus what are you talking about?
The “Texan” that didn’t know Nacogdoches and needs to stop claiming us 🤨.
Xandy Jay I lived in OKC for six years and I knew that one right away!
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!
Lol I'm from Nacogdoches and I dont see how people cant say it 😂
She gotta give up her Texan card.
rt
Waylon taught us how to say Luckenbach :-)
Waylon taught us how _HE_ says Luckenbach.
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.
I’m a Texan an I laughed so hard at the Nacodogdches one😂 it’s a famous city in Texas.
I was waitin' for it. I knew they made this video just got it. 😂😂😂
I learned about that town a few months back in history class. I never could pronounce it right
NACANOWHERE
Nac is also acceptable
I call it Nac lol live 40 minutes away. Oldest town in Texas
"We're Texans, and we do what we want." That we do XD
Apart from seceding from the Union successfully.
Charlie Yang lasted longer than my parents marriage
Explore more with Chris OOF THAT KID ON XBOX WAS RIGHT THEN
WhishiWhooshi technically we legally still have the right to secede if we want to, whereas other states dont
Except smoke pot lol
Don’t feel bad, I’m Texan and still got most of these wrong😂
As a Texan, I'm sad to say that I really underestimated how many there would be. The only ones I got right were Nacogdoches, Luckenbach, and Dumas.
Hey y'all who else lives in Texas like if you do
Dallas
Gruene Hall on a Friday night, beer in one hand, my lady on the dance "floor," great memories.
Houston
@@mexicangem1677 Ouch, the only city where traffic is worse than Dallas in morning rush hour.
Austin
"We're from Texas, we do what we want." So true.
Texas greatness
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.
@@_Meng_Lan your kind isn't welcome here
@@savathunthejudge914 it's true tho, I love Texas but it's government doesn't give a shit about us
@@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
New Braunfels: “it’s new right is the ‘N’ silent?”
Good stuff! 😂 hilarious!
Should have had them guess how to pronounce Bexar while they were at it.
"Bay Har"
Simple.
@@johnkemker7784 Not so simple. Most people say it so fast that it sounds like "bear."
They be sounding like google maps trying pronounce our street names😂
True that. Navigating "howston" street in downtown Ft. Worth
Going down "Gas-tahn" street here in Dallas is fun XD
OMG FOR REAL
I hate talkin to them machines to get somewhere, and it can't understand you.
That right.
The blonde chic needs to hand back her Texas card. 🤦🏻♀️
Very much yes
Agreed!!
I am born and raised here and I have never even heard of it. Leave her the f*** alone.
Dragon Night you’ve never heard of Nacogdoches or Luckenbach??? Are you sure you’re from Texas?
@@johnMorganBrewer yes I am. Believe me. I am from Austin and currently live in concan.
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.
Man y'all are funny I was rollin on the floor the whole time but some of y'all did pretty good not gonna lie
As a Texan, I loved when I could pronounce about 75% of these, but hated that I couldn't the other 25%. anyone else?
Cole Cieslewicz exactly!!!
Yep same!
Yeah same
I did too
I'm Hispanic who learned English from TV and Radio. What can I say 🤷
Im suprised Pflugerville wasn't on this list.
Me too
I'm surprised Manor is on it
I’m gonna guess (FLOO-jurr-vill)
@@kmvstudios9072 nope! FLOO-gerr-vill
@@numbernien Well, I was at least close. Thanks for the knowledge :)
@@kmvstudios9072 You're Welcome!
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!
As soon as luckenbach came on I heard Waylon Jennings in my head lmao.
The one from San Antonio needs her Texan card revoked. Palestine Texan right here born and raised.
And she has no excuse cuz I live in San Antonio originally from lufkin TX and can pronounce all of them
IKR? How's she get Nacogdoches wrong? The oldest town in Texas...it's kinda a big deal. :)
To be fair if you're a Texan you can pronounce these any way you want until someone correct you. You have that much freedom here.
Lauren Newsom girl im saying!! Im from san antonio and im like ummm really lol
My family is from Palestine
I'm from Texas and appreantly I've been saying the names of these towns wrong.
Agreed! Where ya from? I grew up in Corpus Christi
andriki88 yeah me too but I’m from the capital
Delightful Dixie I visit there all the time. I’m from Austin
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
Same
Iraan- combo of the couple's name who founded the town
“This makes me want a corn dog” 😂😂
I'm a Texan, and I know every single one of these, and have been to many.
Patchouli Colt same
Same I live in Texas
Now have y'all been to daingerfeild
Same
I'm form Boerne and I floundered with some of the pan handle towns.
How does the woman who claims to be from San Antonio get Nacogdoches wrong? We learned about it in Texas history as the oldest town in Texas.
And Gruene! She must not get out much lol
Maybe she's a transplant.
THANK YOU! I thought the same thing...I think she's an impostor.
And Greune. That's like a whole 2 feet from San Antonio
True and we have a road called nacogdoches
Matt never fails to make me laugh
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.
She’s from San Antonio and didn’t get Gruene or Nacogdoches 🤔
That was what I thought. lol
Yep, that's was my first thought.
She’s a fake.
Same here. I admit I hadn’t heard of some, but those two are fairly well known....
I also found that odd!
Thank you for apologizing for that. The people of Texas appreciate that.
Just Kyleigh damn right
Just Kyleigh lol yes we do
My aunt lives in Boerne!
I’ve been living in Texas since 2015 and watching this is so funny 😂😂
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
Great im part German what else am I
Maniac Magge yeah my hometown is called Rosenberg and it means rosy hills or something like that in German but it’s a last name
@@miguelhernandez5634 Rose Mountain, so yep!
Miguel Hernandez I live in Rosenberg too 😆😆
@@OKay-lu8jq must refer to the high bank of the Brazos - hills are hard to find there. :-)
The funny thing is Gruene->Grüne in german, what actually means green
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."
Speaking German is surprisingly helpful with these names
Yeah a lot germans migrated here. That's how we got the name for the water park Schlitterbahn
@Pope Mcgrope ?????????
@Pope Mcgrope oh I've never been to central texas
Super fun game! In Wisconsin, we had this game for Super Bowl in Texas as football fans there tried to pronounce places WI. LOL
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.
Gun Barrel, TX is the most Texas sounding town i've been through.
But.... what about "Cut and Shoot?"
@The Creole Empire when talking about strange names my favorite is New Dime Box.
@@TwistedOnyx369 I was about to say lol, right off to the side of Conroe
Ever heard of Cut N Shoot Texas?
Yep.... Cut and shoot. Best name ever
Texan here. I don't know how you can mispronounce nacogdoches. 😂
Houstonian and I got that one - Boerne and Palacios got me
Louisiana place spelled the same way but pronounce Na-Co-Dish
I've never actually read the name until this video
Louisianian here and same😂 it’s Na-Co-Dish
Damn ijut ferner
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!
So entertaining! Thanks!
You forgot What-a-burger AKA Water-burger.
XDDD
THIS IS TRUE
accurate
I was SHOOK when I learned it was What-a-burger at the age of like, ten.
I’m from OK and I say that sometimes 😂
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.
I just remember it as the city with a similar name to another city in Louisiana that is ironically on the same latitude.
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.
@@eyes_espresso4803 You say "most famous," but did he get the tallest standing statue of an American hero on I-45? Nope.
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!
Haha loved watching them trying to pronounce waxachie I live there!
TEXAS REPRESENT!🤘🏻❤️🙏🏻🙌🏻🙋🏼♀️
Love, SunshineGirl team Texan
It depends on who your asking because if I said Palacios or Refugio that way I'd get hit on the head by every Tejano in my family.
Roberto Rodriguez right???!!!! It should just be the spanish way
Lol yea. I'm from the south part of Texas so I naturally lean to the more Hispanic/Mexican way of pronunciation 💁♂️
Refugio has two pronunciations, it just depends who your talking with. Kinda like guacamole, do you guac it or walk it?
I’ve never ever ever heard REFUGIO pronounced that way. (Native Texan here. )
Ever watch the movie “We Were Soldiers”? The reporter got it right.
I love this, I am from Dallas and I was getting most of them right!!
"the trick is pick a letter and dont pronounce it" had my dead lmao
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
Same
Which ones do you pronounce differently? 🤔 I'm from DFW and I say all these the "correct" way...
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. 😁
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....
Thank you! Maybe it's time we get back to the basics of love!
Like the Hatfield's and McCoy's
Haven’t y’all ever heard of the song “ let’s go to luckenbach Texas with Waylon and willie and the boys…” ???
I was born in Nacogdoches.
Y’all should’ve tried to pronounce my town of Colmesneil Tx! 😜
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?
Some of these "official" pronunciations are wrong lol
*From South Texas
Refugio, right? That one bothered me too.
@@JP2GiannaT yup
I thought the same thing. I'm originally from north Texas and Oklahoma. Moved to San Antonio four years ago.
JP2GiannaT it is pronounced refurio
@@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
If you like George Strait you already know half these.
This had me rollin!!!
The best part,"We are Texans and we do what we want". Cracked me up! LOL
The spirit of Waylon Jennings damns all those who mispronounced Luckenbach to perpetual Dumas-ery
Lol I'm a Texan born and raised but the only reason I knew how to say Luckenbach is cuz I speak German pretty good.
HELL YEAH!
Yeah, that one shocked me...I assumed everyone knew how to pronounce Luckenbach
That song is what went through my mind right when I saw it
The white bald guy made this video. "I saw my ex-wife and IRAAN" "Dumas(s)." Can we be friends bro?
This is very fun , my state may have some towns with some strange names here in Nebraska 😀.
"I'm doubting all of my grammatical education up until this point" 1:50 😂😂
Born and raised in Nacogdoches! If you're ever in town, corndogs are on me!
Jordan Newsom are they from corn dog 7 in the lufkin mall
Or we could go to lufkin for some rays on me
@@Messi-me2zy Ray's is pretty darn good! :)
I want to go 😍😍😍😍
Nah fam I want some Jaliscience
GIRL IF YOUR FROM SAN ANTONIO HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW GRUENE???? Literally 40 mins away from Downtown
Or Boerne for that matter
Thank you!!! That's what I was saying!!
Idk how she didn’t get Nacogdoches.
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
JUST SPELL IT CORRECTLY
I’m yanking the southern card of anyone who couldn’t pronounce Luckenbach. If you’ve never heard a Waylon Jennings song, you’re not southern.
Got them all. When you've got place names originating from so many different cultures, it can get fun.
I’m from Iraan Ira was the rancher who founded the town and An was his wife
Fighting Willock
Absolutely! I'm glad you put this out there for the world to see where the name came from.
Cool
Fighting Willock I would have went with Ira-An. Just saying.
Oh that's makes sense. Funny I'm Texan and didn't know
"the more you knooow!" 🌠
Someone revoke that women's Texan card
The Texas girl summed it up perfectly at the end, we're from Texas, we do what we want.
You know it's going to be a good video when someone apologies at the beginning.
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
Its just plain old Nac
Evan Yount actually Washington-on-the-Brazos is the birthplace of Texas because that’s where Texas Declaration of Independence was signed
Fellow Texan here! Everything you said was correct! I didn’t even know some of these, but some of these are inexcusable for the native Texan woman.
Bexar would have been great they would never habe gotten that one
@@fernandovaldez5118 You are right it is a county. They still wouldn't have gotten it though lol.
I guess none of heard of the song about Luckenback. That's where "ain't nobody feeling no pain". ;)
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.
Roads named after it here in central Texas. Kuykendall Road and Kuykendall Mountain Road.
I live in TX and I was struggling with some of these 🤣🤣
0:06 The older folks in my family called it "San Antone."
jinko that’s what it was originally named
Kinda run together like "San-tone"
The older folks in your family are looking for a stabbing. Also, that is NOT what it was originally named, Koopa Coop you fucking walnut.
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.
There's a song by Waylon Jennings about Luckenbach, Texas
Exactly how do southern people not know how to say that
Lets go to Luckenbach Texas
@@bkiller2363 With Willie and Waylon and the boys
Mexia, TX resident right here! The old timers call it “Mah-hair”.
Good ol' Nac! I go to school down there (I'm originally from a far east Texas town an hour and a half north). Axe em, Jacks!
This button will turn blue if you live in Texas
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I lived in Louisiana
It's not turning blue? What happened?
Tonya Wheelington it’s turning red instead
I’m from California but live in Texas does that count.
Should've thrown "Italy", Bexar", and "Seguin" in there. ;)
TiryaC but Italy is just Italy
@@defenderguv8174 IT-lee is what I was told when I first moved just north of the town. :)
S Brooks it's definitely It-Lee
Isn't Seguin just said the way its spelt? I'm not far from there and we have some schools near by with that name. Just "Seh-geen"
throw in buda and see how many say “Buddha”
Just in my neck of the woods near Victoria,Tx you got Goliad, Tivoli, Cuero, runge, nordheim, yoakum,flatonia and ganado...palacios and refugio are pretty close too
Hey, I got most of these right - and I'm from southern England! (Helps if you like Texas-singer-songwriters and you've been to Luckenbach, Gruene, Waxahachie and Study Butte (well Terlingua!) !
MY HOME TEXAS BEST COUNTRY IN THE COUNTRY
TheWayOf Cailinn you mean best state in the country 😂
@@boredom6507 no it used to be a country and to some people they still like saying it's a country
@@boredom6507 Texas was a country for about a decade before becoming a state and would honestly do well as it's own country even now
I agree 😂
Should I tell her..?
I am in Texas I pronounce almost all of these different
There's a few towns near where I live in El Campo, New Teton, Altair, Garwood, Nada, Edna, and Danevane. Just to name a few
Nacogdoches was the funniest. I was screaming at the screen on my phone. 😂
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!?!?"
Pflugerville, not far from Nameless. Which is a pretty bit of nothing.
@@silverlightx6 Even if "a bit of nothing" Texas is always beautiful.
I am a Texan, living in Central Texas. A lot of the towns y’all had in this video were from my area. I didn’t know a few but I think I knew most of them. This is what happens when you have these different languages (German and Spanish) read and pronounced by people who only knew English. My favourite is Refugio. The Texan pronunciation of this town (re FUYR ee oh) is how English ears heard that guttural ‘g’ in Refugio. My favourite town name is Niederwald (NEE dear wahld). It is in south Central Texas, on the way to San Antonio. The area is mostly pasture land with trees here and there but not a lot. The German immigrants coming here in the 1830’s and 1840’s were stunned by this landscape, so very different from their homeland. They named their town Niederwald (‘never forest’).
that “deep in my heart” in the first 4 seconds took me out idk why😭
I've lived in Texas all my life and some of these are a surprise to me.