Texan Town Name Challenge: Watch Non-Texan Struggle
Sometimes Texas feels like it has a language of it's own. Especially when it comes to some of our city and town names. I mean, we have two of them in our backyard: Refugio and Cuero. Check out this video that was posted to TikTok by lonestarlivemedia that showcases how people that aren't from Texas pronounce some Texas city names. Even the person from Texas got one of them wrong.
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Towns in our backyard.
Since we have a number of towns that fall in this category. Let's showcase a few of the towns in our area. We will start with Ganado. Do you say it GA-NAY-DO OR GA-NAH-DO? . We also have one of the most common mispronounced cities located right in our backyard, Refugio, many people add a second R to the town town name, when it doesn't have one. Also on this list, is probably a town that you won't find on any list, Weesatche.
COMMONLY MISPRONOUNCED TEXAS TOWNS
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A couple of personal notes. Mexia, Texas is the one that gets on my nerves. It makes absolutely no sense! First of all, forget that the X exists, because you don't hear it in the pronunciation. It is a Spanish word, however, its pronunciation is not proper Spanish either.
I also don't agree with a couple on the list like Menchaca, Texas. The 'correct' pronunciation is MAN-SHACK. I still will contend that is the incorrect pronunciation and will still continue to pronounce it the way it is spelled.
