We Tried to Pronounce Virginia Town Names

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  • čas přidán 25. 05. 2019
  • In the South, never judge a town name by the way it's spelled. These town names in Virginia are no exception.
    #itsasouthernthing
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  • @maddiepatton1696
    @maddiepatton1696 Před 5 lety +1490

    Yes! Where my fellow Virginians at?😂🙌🏻

  • @alexemmerich3152
    @alexemmerich3152 Před 5 lety +531

    "It's Virginia there was probably a war everywhere." That guy is so right

    • @mrshowtime991
      @mrshowtime991 Před 4 lety +4

      😂😂😂😂

    • @komisar3937
      @komisar3937 Před 4 lety +17

      There was indeed a war everywhere in Virginia, even the part that aren't Virginia anymore.

    • @zoe972
      @zoe972 Před 4 lety

      yeah.

    • @TheDellaniOakes
      @TheDellaniOakes Před 3 lety +4

      My daughter lives outside Suffolk, and has a small Confederate graveyard in her backyard.

    • @alexemmerich3152
      @alexemmerich3152 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheDellaniOakes a... a confederate graveyard? praising the Confederates??????

  • @edmguy11
    @edmguy11 Před 5 lety +566

    As someone who lives in VA, I had no idea of some towns, and was laughing at some pronunciations

    • @punishmint
      @punishmint Před 5 lety +8

      Ryan i was dead at Staunton

    • @red_galaxy_rose
      @red_galaxy_rose Před 5 lety +14

      Okay good so I wasn't the only person from VA. Who didn't know where some of them are. At least Ashland easy to say!😂

    • @cjc2009123
      @cjc2009123 Před 5 lety

      Same here haha.

    • @amandahyre8613
      @amandahyre8613 Před 5 lety

      Ryan I loved the confidence with which they approached Staunton. 🤣

    • @kdrama7115
      @kdrama7115 Před 5 lety +1

      Same , I lived in va for 40 years and only heard of maybe 5 of those towns .... now I’m in Michigan...... 👍

  • @diverdean59
    @diverdean59 Před 5 lety +694

    Powatan. Should be pronounced as Pow-a-tan

    • @tippy651
      @tippy651 Před 5 lety +33

      That's what I said 😂

    • @Tinyrina97
      @Tinyrina97 Před 5 lety +80

      Thank you! As someone from Powhatan, this is how it should actually be said.

    • @cactys3
      @cactys3 Před 5 lety +6

      Lol, they said pow hate en

    • @alexoconnell9219
      @alexoconnell9219 Před 5 lety +2

      Exactly

    • @kdrama7115
      @kdrama7115 Před 5 lety +9

      Yes lived there from age 5-21 ... most all of the places I’ve never heard of ,maybe like 4 are familiar

  • @iankonitzer2272
    @iankonitzer2272 Před 5 lety +353

    Its POW UH TAN, Pocahontas didn't die for this.

    • @Andy-qt4zz
      @Andy-qt4zz Před 5 lety +2

      his name isn’t even Powhatan :>

    • @danielaldebaran7888
      @danielaldebaran7888 Před 5 lety +8

      @@Andy-qt4zz What I know that Pocahontas' dad was Powhatan Chief. Powhatan is the name of a tribe. He was just their chief.

    • @emilyd7634
      @emilyd7634 Před 5 lety

      😂

    • @niyahgore2257
      @niyahgore2257 Před 5 lety

      Ian Konitzer THANK U

    • @hammydammy123
      @hammydammy123 Před 4 lety

      Andy exactly. If you’re from Virginia you would know.

  • @fjac
    @fjac Před 5 lety +653

    You screwed up by not having Norfolk on here.

    • @diamondsngunns88
      @diamondsngunns88 Před 5 lety +3

      Frank Jackson 🤣🤣🤣💜💜💜💜

    • @lokate35
      @lokate35 Před 5 lety +39

      That's what I said! (Posting from beautiful Naw-Fik, Virginia!)

    • @shattermyface
      @shattermyface Před 5 lety +49

      And Suffolk and Portsmouth. Locals lose their shit when you say them wrong!

    • @cvrator
      @cvrator Před 5 lety +13

      It's big enough that people know it. Plus, you can get away with norfuk or nawfuk... There's leeway.

    • @t900badbot
      @t900badbot Před 5 lety +28

      Here we don't cuss, nor drink, nor smoke, Norfolk!

  • @virginiagirl6628
    @virginiagirl6628 Před 5 lety +424

    You know you're a Virginian when you know the correct pronunciation of Stann ton. 😂😂😂

  • @tabitharobinson7987
    @tabitharobinson7987 Před 5 lety +328

    everyone in Virginia says them all differently...don’t feel bad😂

    • @Kaytotty
      @Kaytotty Před 5 lety +5

      Omg yes

    • @erhswku
      @erhswku Před 5 lety +1

      West Virginia too!!!

    • @cactys3
      @cactys3 Před 5 lety +10

      Lol, yea. Except for Powhatan, that one's ez. But somehow they pronounced it wrong in the vid and said it wuz right

    • @michaelwilliams2473
      @michaelwilliams2473 Před 5 lety

      get out of here West Virginian before you get hurt

    • @gailoffenbacker8402
      @gailoffenbacker8402 Před 4 lety

      Never a more accurate comment 😂

  • @nightblade7409
    @nightblade7409 Před 5 lety +132

    Don't feel bad, y'all! I'm FROM VA and I've never heard of half of those places! Bless y'all's hearts!!

    • @hokiejoe17
      @hokiejoe17 Před 5 lety +1

      I knew Haysi, Pulaski, and Ararat.

    • @davidhardie6102
      @davidhardie6102 Před 5 lety +1

      @@hokiejoe17 Staunton home of the Statler Brothers and birthplace of Woodrow Wilson. Alexa even says it wrong.

    • @hokiejoe17
      @hokiejoe17 Před 5 lety

      @@davidhardie6102 Oh I knew Staunton too lol

    • @princeorion84
      @princeorion84 Před 3 lety

      I knew a few but I’m not from a county, so if it ain’t close or I haven’t heard it in conversation you can bet I can’t pronounce it

  • @Scott_Gordon
    @Scott_Gordon Před 5 lety +356

    You failed on Powhatan. The H is silent. POW-ah-tan. (Kind of like saying Power Town). Living here more than 25 years.

    • @FeistyGinger145
      @FeistyGinger145 Před 5 lety +13

      Was gonna comment about this. 37 years for me

    • @philipbarry3350
      @philipbarry3350 Před 5 lety +20

      Scott Gordon yeah my wife and I grew up in Richmond and were thinking the same thing. Maybe the advice given on pronunciation was from someone from a certain part of the western region of Virginia?

    • @mackyronni
      @mackyronni Před 5 lety +14

      I cringed so hard

    • @deadpool5159
      @deadpool5159 Před 5 lety +4

      I always heard both Pow-ah-tan and po-hat-on

    • @Tinyrina97
      @Tinyrina97 Před 5 lety +10

      Thank You! I have lived in Powhatan 21 years and you can tell people are not from Powhatan when they say it wrong.

  • @owenhaynes5968
    @owenhaynes5968 Před 5 lety +183

    I live in Gloucester! Who else is from Virginia?

  • @AaronPeckCarpDime
    @AaronPeckCarpDime Před 5 lety +311

    I'm FROM Virginia and I'm pretty sure I only got about half of those right.

    • @Jiddy12345
      @Jiddy12345 Před 5 lety

      same, 7/14

    • @eldergeek6077
      @eldergeek6077 Před 5 lety +5

      Then you did better than I did. I grew up in Alexandria.

    • @lynneneese3745
      @lynneneese3745 Před 5 lety +2

      I got 10 right but I live in SW Virginia which helped with a couple. Of course they got Powhatan wrong.

    • @cactys3
      @cactys3 Před 5 lety

      Same, I got barely any bruh.

    • @my_names_bri5425
      @my_names_bri5425 Před 5 lety +1

      I knew 2 but I’ve lived here all my life lol

  • @NixAnadoo
    @NixAnadoo Před 5 lety +67

    I grew up in Virginia. Not only is this hilariously accurate, but even most of us Virginia raised can't get all of these!

  • @scottsaylors1996
    @scottsaylors1996 Před 5 lety +116

    I live near Powhatan and it’s Pow-A-Tan

  • @amandahyre8613
    @amandahyre8613 Před 5 lety +101

    I’m from VA and I’m severely disappointed that Bumpass wasn’t included. 🤣 I do appreciate that Staunton and Gloucester were there.

    • @jacobbelcher3512
      @jacobbelcher3512 Před 4 lety +2

      I know. That would've been a good one to include. I feel like they'd've messed up Charlottesville too. There are a bunch more that would've given them trouble too.

    • @shepglennon8760
      @shepglennon8760 Před 3 lety

      How do you pronounce it? Bump-ass, Bum-Pass, Bumpiss?

    • @cassieredmond154
      @cassieredmond154 Před 3 lety +1

      @@shepglennon8760 pronounced bumpiss. I was also disappointed by its lack of inclusion lol.

    • @kimfox8109
      @kimfox8109 Před 2 lety +1

      I know right or Culpeper or my county Spotsylvania

    • @michaelforrest2046
      @michaelforrest2046 Před 2 lety

      Im a poquoson native. Try that one lol

  • @camerona.3505
    @camerona.3505 Před 5 lety +96

    When you live in Gloucester and start freaking out that your town got noticed😂

    • @savannahrae2370
      @savannahrae2370 Před 5 lety +2

      LeopardLover 619 hey I live there too

    • @JSAC66
      @JSAC66 Před 5 lety +1

      I have family there! Darlin’ little place not far off of 17. 😁

    • @alarion6
      @alarion6 Před 5 lety +2

      Another GloCo resident here

    • @elijahlewis5555
      @elijahlewis5555 Před 5 lety +3

      Yall are the big city compared to us near Kilmarnock. Gloucester got a chickfila and everything, haha

    • @shattermyface
      @shattermyface Před 5 lety

      I was chanting... I know this one!!
      And I can say Kilmarnok, too!
      I spent a lot of summers on the river!

  • @bkillerbw58
    @bkillerbw58 Před 5 lety +56

    Hell yeah VA. Thanks from Winchester, VA

  • @dawge30
    @dawge30 Před 5 lety +44

    Thanks, y'all! Greetings from Joe, lived in Gloucester as a kid, have friends from Swoope, and live in Staunton, as of Memorial day weekend; 25 years!
    Y'all did good, LOVE this channel. Great fun for me, my wife; and my two boys.

    • @punishmint
      @punishmint Před 5 lety +1

      i don't know what boys are i only know what 🅱️oiz are

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva Před 5 lety +1

      Hello, fellow Stauntonians!

    • @cvrator
      @cvrator Před 5 lety

      I'm really sorry for you guys who live in Staunton.

    • @pookeywan
      @pookeywan Před 4 lety

      Fellow Stauntonian here!

  • @jamesjeffries4408
    @jamesjeffries4408 Před 5 lety +140

    Hey I live in Fauquier, and its not a town. It's a county. just sayin

    • @warriors2414
      @warriors2414 Před 5 lety +1

      James Jeffries me too!!

    • @jamesjeffries4408
      @jamesjeffries4408 Před 5 lety +9

      @Rachel Robb not sure. All i can say is i have lived here since 81 including 4 years at Fauquier High and everyone says fah-keer.

    • @luv2cook.
      @luv2cook. Před 5 lety +1

      Been living in Fauquier since 1988. Woot!

    • @riellymckinley8741
      @riellymckinley8741 Před 5 lety

      Ery place on dis bih akkept fauqier kounty sweet as uh moe yuhhur

    • @xX_STARFALLER_Xx
      @xX_STARFALLER_Xx Před 5 lety +1

      I've always heard Fauquier pronounced like fall-queer or fawl-keer
      I don't know why but there is always an L in Fauquier whenever I hear someone say it

  • @aili03
    @aili03 Před 5 lety +48

    I live in VA and I haven't even heard of half of these! 😂
    Greetings from Abingdon!

    • @In_time
      @In_time Před 5 lety +1

      “Aa-bing-don”? ✔️🤷🏼‍♀️ ❌

    • @aili03
      @aili03 Před 5 lety

      @@In_time 😂😂😂😂
      Guess it's not really that hard to figure out.

    • @kellymontgomery9099
      @kellymontgomery9099 Před 5 lety +1

      Aili McMurray I grew up in Abingdon.

    • @duanebrankley8984
      @duanebrankley8984 Před 5 lety +4

      I love the town.. Trail Head of head of the Va Creeper, Barter theater, and of course that week long Arts & Crafts festival.

    • @hannahsheets9934
      @hannahsheets9934 Před 5 lety +2

      I feel ya! From tazewell right here!

  • @CornHuskersguy
    @CornHuskersguy Před 5 lety +21

    I like how all the Virginian's are in the comment section correcting this video. 😂😂

  • @4knewt505
    @4knewt505 Před 5 lety +42

    757 and 804 representing! ROFL @ Gloucester and Powhatan! And don't forget the out of town pronunciation of Norfolk?

  • @h2ogurl1234
    @h2ogurl1234 Před 5 lety +61

    Thank you for including us in a southern video!
    Y'all should've included norfolk since no one says it right

    • @kellycrites80
      @kellycrites80 Před 5 lety +2

      I know right! I for sure thought they would've had Norfolk!

    • @ousmanedieng1382
      @ousmanedieng1382 Před 4 lety +1

      Emma Nesbit I’m from somewhere near there and I can’t even pronounce it

    • @Hunty-pf2do
      @Hunty-pf2do Před 4 lety

      I think I say Norf*ck
      (when i actually say Norfolk)

    • @DKWfrfr
      @DKWfrfr Před 3 lety

      Yo I’m in Virginia Beach

    • @babagyoza
      @babagyoza Před 3 lety +4

      I grew up in Norfolk, and say Nawh-fk. Though not a city, they should also try Powhite (Parkway), or Poquoson and Denbigh.

  • @BubbaJ18
    @BubbaJ18 Před 5 lety +62

    As a Virginian from Powhatan we don't pronounce it like that 2:46

    • @arrowheadgrant4026
      @arrowheadgrant4026 Před 5 lety +3

      I live there too

    • @beaconnell
      @beaconnell Před 4 lety +3

      Bryan Lovell I choked on my sweet tea I was confused with that mispronunciation

  • @virginiagirl6628
    @virginiagirl6628 Před 5 lety +38

    Finally, Virginia! Thank y'all!! ♥️♥️

  • @caroline317
    @caroline317 Před 5 lety +35

    I knew Staunton would be on this list! Coming from the next town over

    • @emilypagan9410
      @emilypagan9410 Před 5 lety +1

      I live close to Staunton lol

    • @southpaw1965
      @southpaw1965 Před 5 lety

      Oh, are you from Buena Vista? Surprised they weren't on the list.

    • @caroline317
      @caroline317 Před 5 lety

      Nope

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva Před 5 lety +2

      a.k.a. Waynesboro... LOL

    • @aceproffitt8315
      @aceproffitt8315 Před 4 lety +1

      I miss Staunton. Was born in Fishersville and lived in Staunton for a while. I miss going to the clock tower

  • @punishmint
    @punishmint Před 5 lety +32

    nice finally were considered a southern state. bless your heart from Harrisonburg Virginia

    • @littletoonproductions9202
      @littletoonproductions9202 Před 5 lety

      Crystal_ Mint elkton here!

    • @cordeliachase5241
      @cordeliachase5241 Před 5 lety +2

      Yay! Now that y'all have recognized Virginia as a southern state, maybe we'll get to participate in this year's Southern Games! Keep up the great work!

    • @cordeliachase5241
      @cordeliachase5241 Před 5 lety +3

      PS....with names like Poquoson, Kecoughtan, Phoebus, Denbigh and Henrico, this game could go on forever!

    • @kevinashberry2939
      @kevinashberry2939 Před 5 lety

      Crystal_ Mint ikr i hate being called northern state because we are super duper southern but in like richmond and williamsburg we are like city people

    • @kevinashberry2939
      @kevinashberry2939 Před 5 lety

      Cordelia Chase and i cant believe we have a county above williamsburg called Jamaica XD

  • @samr3011
    @samr3011 Před 5 lety +37

    You missed Poquoson on your list! These videos are so awesome ^^ I look forward to seeing what you'll find in each of the states!

  • @calmfulspider
    @calmfulspider Před 5 lety +47

    3:04 I've never heard anyone pronounce pulaski like that. people pronounce it more like pa-LASS-kee not pyoo.

    • @Meela234
      @Meela234 Před 5 lety

      Thank you! Even on the news, they pronounce it pa-LASS-kee.

    • @bethshadid2087
      @bethshadid2087 Před 5 lety +1

      I figured that's how it was pronounced because of fort Pulaski in Georgia.

    • @katiebolling474
      @katiebolling474 Před 5 lety +13

      I grew up in Southwestern Virginia, and we call it Pyoo-Laski

    • @MaryofMayberry
      @MaryofMayberry Před 5 lety +1

      @@katiebolling474 you are right

    • @sixletters9759
      @sixletters9759 Před 5 lety

      I used to live near Botetourt. I know how to properly pronounce Pulaski, pyoo.

  • @katharinemarshall1629
    @katharinemarshall1629 Před 5 lety +32

    Y’all missed Rappahannock, Aquia, and Falmouth. Butched regularly by folks coming down I-95.

    • @limalicious
      @limalicious Před 5 lety +6

      Wait, is Rappahannock supposed to be a hard one?

    • @NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast
      @NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast Před 4 lety +1

      Katharine Marshall I’m in Aquia lol tons of people say a - quee - a it’s a - qwhy - a

    • @kimfox8109
      @kimfox8109 Před 2 lety

      Basically anything up and down i-95 in Virginia is a challenge for most LOL

    • @buckeye_8451
      @buckeye_8451 Před 2 lety

      @@limalicious It's like Rap-uh-hannock

    • @buckeye_8451
      @buckeye_8451 Před 2 lety

      @@limalicious Or if you're saying it fast, rap-hannock

  • @soccerchamp0511
    @soccerchamp0511 Před 5 lety +21

    I love that y'all included the girl who said that Virginia isn't southern 😂🤣😂🤣 Are we southern enough for you now?

    • @whatchulookinatboy1393
      @whatchulookinatboy1393 Před 4 lety

      😂😂

    • @yuioyup
      @yuioyup Před rokem +1

      Which video?

    • @ussfreedom4422
      @ussfreedom4422 Před 5 měsíci +2

      lol 😂😂😂 right?? I think people forget that Virginia is the capital of the confederacy and confederate states. Without us, there wouldn’t be a south. Texas and Louisiana aren’t truth southerners lol they’re French and Mexican 😂

    • @soccerchamp0511
      @soccerchamp0511 Před 4 měsíci

      @@ussfreedom4422 That is a really dumbass, ignorant comment. There was a south BEFORE the Confederacy. Virginia being southern doesn't have anything to do with the Confederacy. And what is your point about Texas and Louisiana exactly? Southerners can't also be French and Mexican? The south is very multicultural, and not just in Texas and Louisiana.

    • @soccerchamp0511
      @soccerchamp0511 Před 4 měsíci

      @@yuioyup I don't remember the title. Just look up It's A Southern Thing ranks southern states or something like that.

  • @sophiaskojec
    @sophiaskojec Před 5 lety +11

    Yay!! They eventually pronounced them correctly!! Thanks! ~A subscriber from Manassas

    • @soikiwa
      @soikiwa Před 3 lety +1

      haha i was just waiting for them to call manassas just to make fun of the name, i just finished OHS T_T

  • @MaryofMayberry
    @MaryofMayberry Před 5 lety +36

    Ahhhh Y'all left out Galax, Fries and Norfolk. 😊

    • @eldergeek6077
      @eldergeek6077 Před 5 lety +1

      I guess they thought they would be too easy.

    • @janedoe5829
      @janedoe5829 Před 5 lety +2

      Mary Mayberry gay-lax, frees.

    • @MaryofMayberry
      @MaryofMayberry Před 5 lety

      @@janedoe5829 Great and right!!

    • @lightwavz
      @lightwavz Před 5 lety +1

      But they really got PewLassKey right! Now let's head on over to RowNoke. All these folks puttin' too many syllables in our cities.

    • @samuelclark2434
      @samuelclark2434 Před 5 lety +1

      And buena vista

  • @DarienVista
    @DarienVista Před 5 lety +7

    Condolences and Prayers to those that were affected because of the Memorial Day Weekend shooting in Virginia

  • @laurasalley7386
    @laurasalley7386 Před 5 lety +10

    IT'S👏POW👏A👏TAN👏NOT👏POW👏HAT👏UN👏

  • @Jiddy12345
    @Jiddy12345 Před 5 lety +13

    My home state. I missed a lot more than I thought I would.

  • @matthewbarge6988
    @matthewbarge6988 Před 5 lety +13

    For the 17 years I have lived in Virginia, No one I have ever met has ever pronunced Powhatan correctly

  • @alexcovington5274
    @alexcovington5274 Před 5 lety +17

    ok as a person who lives in virginia i was cracking up watching this😂

  • @sunnyfix1372
    @sunnyfix1372 Před 5 lety +48

    I want to die every time someone pronounces Staunton like that 🤢 but y'all forgot Raphine and Buena Vista!

    • @MarkFagerburg
      @MarkFagerburg Před 5 lety +8

      Would have liked to see them try Buena Vista too!

    • @kelseywilliams5893
      @kelseywilliams5893 Před 5 lety +3

      Same. I'm from buena vista. Can we have a part 2?

    • @ArtGirlJan
      @ArtGirlJan Před 4 lety +2

      Sunny Fix i was waiting for Buena Vista too!

    • @ousmanedieng1382
      @ousmanedieng1382 Před 4 lety +1

      Sunny Fix Norfolk, Palmyra, Louisa, Occoquan, Aquia, McLean, Galax, Suffolk, Machipongo, Chincoteague, Appomattox.
      You could make a whole other video of other towns that nobody can say. (Especially with McLean and Norfolk

    • @afton1955
      @afton1955 Před 4 lety

      They also forgot Monterey up in Highland County.

  • @desi1997-
    @desi1997- Před 4 lety +7

    I've lived in VA my whole life and I've only heard of Gloucester, Powhatan, and Staunton. I'd love to see how they would pronounce Portsmouth, Poquoson, and Seaford 😂

  • @mandydurrer6437
    @mandydurrer6437 Před 5 lety +7

    Been waiting on the VA edition! Surprised not to see Stanardsville though. (Loved seeing my hometown of Staunton)

  • @nightwolf2226
    @nightwolf2226 Před 5 lety +6

    That was fun to watch. Powhatan resident, here. We all pronounce it Pow-ah-tan.

  • @amberc801
    @amberc801 Před 5 lety +25

    Okay but the grandma woman has got to be from va

    • @RachelRamey
      @RachelRamey Před 5 lety +7

      Right? Who the heck just GUESSES the pronunciation of "McGaheysville"?

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 5 lety +6

    I’ve been to VA in 2010 for a boy scout jamboree at Fort AP Hill to celebrate 100 years old of scouting. It’s a nice state

  • @ChaosCourtney01
    @ChaosCourtney01 Před 5 lety +7

    yesss this is one of my favorite youtube channels!! watching from Lynchburg, VA!

    • @YellowWhiteRose
      @YellowWhiteRose Před 5 lety +1

      i figured out city too easy, same with Amherst/Monroe/bedford

    • @Asdfghjkl-pb1ir
      @Asdfghjkl-pb1ir Před 5 lety +2

      I used to live in forest!! That’s a great area!

  • @abbycook3864
    @abbycook3864 Před 5 lety +17

    Representing Botetourt county!

    • @nicholasbyram296
      @nicholasbyram296 Před 3 lety +1

      Everytime I drive through Botetourt, I get a speeding ticket for going like 6 MPH over the limit on the highway. Explain please.

  • @rachelc3535
    @rachelc3535 Před 5 lety +28

    We definitely say Pow-uh-tan, not Po-hat-an. I've heard people not from other places say it differently, but never like y'all did. I've also never heard Pulaski pronounced the way y'all did it either. It's a short U as in up, not a long U.

    • @mrs.cracker4622
      @mrs.cracker4622 Před 5 lety +2

      That's how I've heard Powhatan too. Thanks!
      🙂

    • @katiebolling474
      @katiebolling474 Před 5 lety +5

      In Southwest Virginia everyone says Pyoo-Laski.

    • @blackwidow5228
      @blackwidow5228 Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah, they got a few of these wrong. Even if it's the original correct way to say something, over time it changes and people don't pronounce it that way anymore. Born and raised in Richmond and lived here my whole life!

  • @jeprecisionlogistics7357
    @jeprecisionlogistics7357 Před 5 lety +20

    The last time I was this early I wasn't saying bless your heart to James Charles 😂😢

  • @darrenmast7214
    @darrenmast7214 Před 5 lety +20

    You’re wrong on Powhatan. That is most definitely not what the people from Powhatan call it. I grew up in Amelia, about a mile from the Powhatan county line.

  • @claireevans7014
    @claireevans7014 Před 5 lety +4

    Was not expecting to be so excited when Staunton and Crozet were featured haha! I lived right between them in Fishersville!

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva Před 5 lety +1

      What about Swoope?! I can't believe they found that tiny little speck of a place. :-D

  • @ashleyRN00
    @ashleyRN00 Před 4 lety +3

    I live in the town of Buchanan in the county of Botetourt!!! No one not from here can pronounce these first try!! 😆😆😆

  • @brooke.x0xo442
    @brooke.x0xo442 Před 5 lety

    I love these videos!! Please do more

  • @patrickstar151
    @patrickstar151 Před 5 lety +16

    If you lived in Northern Virginia at some point in your life:
    Comment if you lived in Northern Virginia
    Like you lived in Southern Virginia

    • @katherineludwig5804
      @katherineludwig5804 Před 5 lety

      Jaslene Hernandez loudoun county!!

    • @katherineludwig5804
      @katherineludwig5804 Před 5 lety

      Meade Vlog channel yeah, it’s crazy. I moved away only a year ago and it’s a huge difference after even in a year.

    • @greggdriscoll5075
      @greggdriscoll5075 Před 4 lety

      @@katherineludwig5804 Northern va please secede from the rest of the state. Thank you! Much love from southern Virginian.

    • @strawberrycola1994
      @strawberrycola1994 Před 4 lety

      Fairfax County

    • @jasoncampos2933
      @jasoncampos2933 Před 3 lety

      Northern is the south Maybe not culturally but it is Dixie. During the civil War the most successful Confederate was the Army of northern Virginia. Don’t forget Robert e lee is from northern Virginia

  • @ryanturpin5114
    @ryanturpin5114 Před 5 lety +11

    They missed Buena Vista and Fries. Those two are my favorite odd pronunciations, but yay for Pulaski!

  • @KellyAnn2390
    @KellyAnn2390 Před 5 lety +9

    I wish yall would have included some really off the wall ones like Buena Vista, or Occoquan.

    • @RachelRamey
      @RachelRamey Před 5 lety

      These are probably too small to be included, but we've also lived in or near Matoaca and Opequon.

  • @Nosebluds
    @Nosebluds Před 5 lety +16

    Being from Powhatan, they still did not pronounce it right. If you live in Powhatan, VA it's actually pronounced the way the lady pronounces it at 2:44
    While it may be pronounced Poe-hot-an traditionally by native americans, that's not how to pronounce the county
    Nobody outside of the Powhatan/Cumberland/Richmond area ever pronounces it correctly

    • @SALEENS7GTR5
      @SALEENS7GTR5 Před 5 lety +4

      Neighbors of RVA get it right, like Albemarle, because the schools often competed against Powhatan, Midlothian, etc. I too was confused when Pow-uh-tan wasn't right.

    • @eawatahatanguatama383
      @eawatahatanguatama383 Před 2 lety

      we never said it like poe-ha-tan

  • @SuzQ-fk5gn
    @SuzQ-fk5gn Před 5 lety +4

    I love being a Virginian and watching y’all! That was great :) welcome to Virginia y’all

  • @Doubletrend
    @Doubletrend Před 4 lety +7

    “It’s Virginia, there’s a war everywhere, probably.”
    Honestly😂

    • @gloriasheppard2073
      @gloriasheppard2073 Před 4 lety +1

      My grade school was Battlefield Park, middle Stonewall Jackson, and high Lee-Davis. Literally, my childhood home was built between two trenches on a dirt road.p

  • @chrisforbes3977
    @chrisforbes3977 Před 5 lety +3

    Loved the video! I was born in Staunton and graduated from high school in Swoope.

  • @calliehall8034
    @calliehall8034 Před 3 lety +4

    I live in Powhatan, Virginia, and everyone calls it Pow-wah-tan. It's a small rural town, and gorgeous in the summer (and unbearably hot.)

  • @caitlinc2306
    @caitlinc2306 Před 5 lety +11

    Oh yay! I’m from Virginia Beach! 😂

  • @megandaniellekeaton5721
    @megandaniellekeaton5721 Před 5 lety +4

    IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS AS A VA NATIVE I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

  • @smulk1200
    @smulk1200 Před 3 lety +2

    Fauquier is my home county so I'm glad someone could pronounce it! 😂

  • @MusicFreak4Evr101
    @MusicFreak4Evr101 Před 5 lety +9

    I live in Staunton! Gorgeous town!

  • @limalicious
    @limalicious Před 5 lety +4

    I'm SO happy y'all included Fauquier, Powhatan, Staunton, and Gloucester.
    Fauquier was my favorite.

    • @ChristophProbst
      @ChristophProbst Před 5 lety +2

      I was excited to see Fauquier because I live about 5 miles from there!

  • @storyspinner70
    @storyspinner70 Před 5 lety +4

    Wow I live super near Pulaski and missed like three of these...lmaooo I need to go back to school. Hiya from Tazewell!

    • @YTLaenir
      @YTLaenir Před 5 lety

      Hiya, person from Tazewell. I used to live right down the road in Lebanon.

    • @Asdfghjkl-pb1ir
      @Asdfghjkl-pb1ir Před 5 lety

      My dad’s family is from tazewell/bluefield area!!

  • @TheRogueFeline
    @TheRogueFeline Před 5 lety +1

    Omg, im so happy and giddy yall did my home state of Virginia. I was wondering if yall were gonna do it or not. Good job. 😆👍😁 born and raised in norfolk, now living in va beach.

  • @joeywebster7617
    @joeywebster7617 Před 5 lety +2

    Once said Fauquier when I was in elementary school. Teacher pulled me aside for a talk about my language.

  • @tylerscales1674
    @tylerscales1674 Před 5 lety +6

    There's not a single person from Ararat who pronounces it that way. Locals pronounce it Air-Rat.

  • @jlhabitan50
    @jlhabitan50 Před 5 lety +3

    I only lived in Virginia for about a year but now Virginia lives in my heart. Shout out to all my peeps in Falls Church and Fairfax County!
    I only got Buchanan, Fauquier, Gloucester, and Powhatan right. hehe

  • @elijahellington3080
    @elijahellington3080 Před 5 lety

    Love yalls vids

  • @clueless5065
    @clueless5065 Před 5 lety

    Another great video guys! 💝🎉

  • @gabbyspringer6947
    @gabbyspringer6947 Před 5 lety +15

    Yay Staunton, even we who live here don't say it right.

    • @arcinva
      @arcinva Před 5 lety

      *puts nerd glasses on* Actually, we do. I was always told that Lady Staunton pronounced her name the way we do. Honestly, I'm not sure if that's true, but it is what I was always told. Haha.

    • @aceproffitt8315
      @aceproffitt8315 Před 4 lety

      I miss it there to be honest, but I was tired of all the crime.

  • @copieay7265
    @copieay7265 Před 5 lety +12

    So I can confirm my state is southern.

  • @cathymckendrick5680
    @cathymckendrick5680 Před 5 lety

    I love it so funny to hear people try to say names I love in GALAX, VA, and love when I get calls from people who cant say it.

  • @alexh.3830
    @alexh.3830 Před 5 lety

    Ahhh I love this channel

  • @maryjenkins3901
    @maryjenkins3901 Před 5 lety +11

    I can't believe they didn't include Buena Vista, pronounced BYOO-nah VISS-tah

    • @cvrator
      @cvrator Před 5 lety +1

      Yeah, I thought for sure that was going to be in there.

    • @vinista256
      @vinista256 Před rokem

      Thank you! (I live there, and I was SOOO disappointed ☹️)

  • @Jordanhubbard1
    @Jordanhubbard1 Před 5 lety +3

    I'm from Honaker VA. Small town. ;) nice place

    • @YTLaenir
      @YTLaenir Před 5 lety +1

      Yo, Honaker! I used to live in Lebanon.

    • @Jordanhubbard1
      @Jordanhubbard1 Před 5 lety

      Well I live on John son road now but I did live in honaker

    • @aili03
      @aili03 Před 5 lety

      Abingdon 👋🏻

  • @katherinepoindexter4380
    @katherinepoindexter4380 Před 2 lety +2

    current North Carolinian I was born on the Peninsula grew up on the Southside of Hampton Roads a.k.a the 757.

  • @elliebeth09
    @elliebeth09 Před 5 lety +1

    Yeah VA!! Luray or Tazewell would’ve been fun to see them try to pronounce, too.

  • @Alabamafan2
    @Alabamafan2 Před 5 lety +5

    Will y'all do "Bless your Rank: best sweets from the country store/gas station" ? Hint: Uncle Al's Stage Planks

  • @DerHistoryMeister
    @DerHistoryMeister Před 5 lety +7

    Hahahahaha I love being a Virginian. I live right near Fauquier. :D

  • @AriffaRaff
    @AriffaRaff Před 4 lety

    Grew up in Swoope, live in Staunton lol. This was fun to watch.

  • @bethslaughter4279
    @bethslaughter4279 Před 5 lety +1

    Woot woot. I live in Warrenton, VA which happens to be located in Fauquier County. Yes y’all!

  • @Sam-cl7wq
    @Sam-cl7wq Před 5 lety +3

    Where the heck is Powhatten? Lol. Pow-uh-tan...I wanna hear y'all pronounce Powhite now 😂 this was fun, regardless!

    • @Sam-cl7wq
      @Sam-cl7wq Před 5 lety +1

      Sounds like something we would say as a joke to sound even more ridiculous than we already do LOL! "I'mma head on over to Powhatten to the liquah sto-yall need anythin?" ❤️home❤️

    • @4knewt505
      @4knewt505 Před 5 lety

      Lol I forgot about powhite!!

  • @OldSchool1947
    @OldSchool1947 Před 5 lety +9

    O.K. Now lets try to pronounce, "Henrico," and "Genito!"

    • @retreatsyndrome8478
      @retreatsyndrome8478 Před 4 lety +3

      Lol...combed through the comment section looking for Henrico ..Hey...Let's try *POWHITE* parkway too while we're at it!

    • @williammason475
      @williammason475 Před 3 lety +1

      Hen-ry-co

    • @idk012
      @idk012 Před 3 lety +2

      So true. I don't live too far from genito road and the GPS pronounces it terribly.

  • @beachchell9449
    @beachchell9449 Před 5 lety +1

    I found this so much fun to watch, some I knew and there were a few from the other end of the state I didn’t. Growing up in Roanoke, when people see it written out they pronounce it Rowanoke. We also get asked if we’re the lost colony a lot. 😊😅 Also yes I think every town, city has a battle or some sort of historical significance in Virginia.

  • @jr_Linux
    @jr_Linux Před 5 lety

    lol omg dude this was great......funny i've been to a few of these towns or near them haha.

  • @meganringer1755
    @meganringer1755 Před 5 lety +4

    as someone from VA (the 757 specifically) we don’t claim most of these towns, especially the ones from NOVA 😬

    • @JC-md5rq
      @JC-md5rq Před 5 lety

      No one of those towns is from NOVA doe

    • @meganringer1755
      @meganringer1755 Před 5 lety

      Chris Jones I wasn’t only talking about NOVA, that’s just the one that people from the 757 “feud” with the most. But since “no one of those towns is from NOVA”, care to explain Fauquier county?

    • @4knewt505
      @4knewt505 Před 5 lety +1

      757!

  • @SouthernBelleReviews
    @SouthernBelleReviews Před 5 lety +5

    You forgot Buena Vista!!!

  • @Mejlynne
    @Mejlynne Před 5 lety +1

    I loved hearing these. Should have tried Wytheville, lol.

  • @MarysInks
    @MarysInks Před 2 lety +2

    Y’all should totally do a video on the accents in Guinea.

  • @catherinewithac4554
    @catherinewithac4554 Před 5 lety +8

    Louisiana next. Please? I have been suggesting this for a long time now.
    They are either avoiding me, or saving the best state for last (not saying Louisiana is the best state).

    • @catherinewithac4554
      @catherinewithac4554 Před 5 lety +1

      And also I am guessing they will do West Virginia next. Louisiana can't win.

    • @morganm.4356
      @morganm.4356 Před 5 lety

      I have been saying Oklahoma but they haven’t doing it. I think they don’t consider us in the south for some reason

  • @trueblue533
    @trueblue533 Před 5 lety +3

    Gotta do Louisiana!!!

  • @ShootYourRadio
    @ShootYourRadio Před 3 lety

    I live near Basye. There is a ski resort there and in high school I worked one winter running the ski lifts. Mainly the bunny slopes. I would fall asleep in the booth and wake up to the ski school people throwing snowballs at the window, cause someone fell down and I needed to turn the lift off. Haha.

  • @kinzyrust8858
    @kinzyrust8858 Před 5 lety

    Yay I’ve been waiting on this video

  • @culaer
    @culaer Před 5 lety +3

    Louisiana

  • @KimberlyGreen
    @KimberlyGreen Před 5 lety +4

    I used to work with someone that pronounced Buchanan the same way. I wonder if he had ancestors from around there.

    • @mrs.cracker4622
      @mrs.cracker4622 Před 5 lety

      Folks named Buchanan in that part of the Valley pronounce it the same way as the town.

    • @KimberlyGreen
      @KimberlyGreen Před 5 lety

      @@mrs.cracker4622 Undoubtedly. But I, and my former co-worker, live in Oklahoma. That's why I was wondering if he had a connection.

  • @jaclynferguson4556
    @jaclynferguson4556 Před 5 lety

    Please do a part 2 and try to pronounce Poquoson, Va

  • @Ewimer21
    @Ewimer21 Před 2 lety +1

    I grew up 2 miles from Basye and near Staunton and McGaheysville