I thought cheese goes good on beef chili, though.
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I thought cheese goes good on beef chili, though.
Wait until the cheeseheads order chile and get the real stuff. My wife, from So Cal, ordered chile once in Iowa. I tried to warn her.
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Why did that "Texan" with the Green Bay "stencil" have problems pronouncing Wisconsin cities? (And yes, some of them are a challenge for me, despite having lived a couple years in Wisconsin.)
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During my formation training at the Waukesha airport, I mistakenly identified Waukegan as the airport our flight was approaching. When upbraided for the mistake in the debrief, I proclaimed that Wisconsin had too many 'Wau's".
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haha, we got some Texas places that take a little learnin' before you can say them right - try these, they are from my area:
Pecos
Iraan
Lajitas
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Pecos
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C'mon, Grant - would you cheer for the Cowboys? Really?
How 'bout:
Nacogdoches?
Or our nearby Louisiana neighbor, the charming burg of
Natchitoches?
My experience, folks might get close on the first... but they'd be surely and sincerely lost on the second.
Glespy Cow Traffic...
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So I can assume that they are not pronounced the same?
I do know that the second one, Natchitoches, LA is pronounced "Nack-uh-dish". Or, as we called it, "Nasty Toe Cheese."
(cue "I've been everywhere, man"... We did a show in Natchitoches, LA when I was marching in the Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps.)
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Just for accuracy, I'll note that Waukegan is in Illinois, not Wisconsin. (Close, though!
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Mexia is the big one. (mə-HAY-ə and not ˈmɛksiə)
Leaving out the "English speakers can't pronounce Spanish town names" (and there are a lot of them) add to that:
Palestine (not like the region in the Middle East, "palesteen")
Boerne (/ˈbɜrni/ or "ber-knee")
Seguin ("se geen" and not "se gwin")
Kountze ("Coontz")
How do we tell you're from New York? Pronounce "Houston"
Since this is an airplane board:
Waco
And that is the end of my memory without heading off to Google.
--Carlos "born and raised, but moved away" V.
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Howza Noo Yukker pronounce it?
Well, if you're talking about the airplane... "Wah-co." Rhymes with Taco.
If you're talking Waco, TX, it should be pronounced "Whacko" like the folks that come from around there...
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Howza Noo Yukker pronounce it?
New York: First syllable rhymes with "house"
Everywhere else: First syllable rhymes with "hew".
Mainly because Houston St. in New York is actually misspelled. It is actually supposed to be spelled "Houstoun" after "William Houstoun", the person the street was named after. That guy pronounced his name "house-ton" Somewhere along the line the 2nd 'u' was dropped accidentally, but the pronunciation stuck.
http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Houston
--Carlos V.
I actually thought of Aliquippa first for Gust Avrakotos because I just listened to the audio version of "Charlie Wilson's War." I would have loved that guy as a mentor if I met him. Also we mentioned Mike Ditka when we drove though once.
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Having been to Texas (my aunt lived in Pharr for 20+ years) and sampled various dishes, Texans have nothing on spicy. I've made spicier chili at home, but to be fair, I've been to countries where they have food that tastes great, but that'll take out your esophagus.
That's the hard part, really. Spicy is easy. Tasty and spicy, where you don't want to stop eating even though you feel like your burning a hole in your midsection, that's tough.
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Howza Noo Yukker pronounce it?
Well, if you're talking about the airplane... "Wah-co." Rhymes with Taco.
If you're talking Waco, TX, it should be pronounced "Whacko" like the folks that come from around there...
I'm pretty sure they're both pronounced "way-koh"
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Real stuff? In Texas? I don't even think you can get chile in Texas, I think you're limited to "Chili."
The real stuff is in Mexico and New Mexico, and not many other places in the country...
You guys are right, I don't care for Texas versions either. New Mexico green in my style. Big point was that none of us would recognize the kidney bean, ground beef, and chile power mix in the rural Midwest as chile. At least 15 years ago. May have changed now with all the immigrants. When I visited relatives in Iowa/Minnesota over the years, Mexican food was a joke, Taco Bell is better. :wink2:
BTW, Pharr is not Texas but a suburb of Omaha or Des Moines.
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The town is "way-ko"
The airplane is "wah-ko"
Huh? Pharr is also a city in the Rio Grande Valley in Hidalgo County, Texas. On US83, shares a school district with San Juan and Alamo.
--Carlos "Grew up in the Rio Grande Valley" V.
It was just a little sarcasm, guess I should use the emoticons more.
Every been there in the winter at one of the buffets? Mom had a house in McAllen. I was referencing the snowbirds. And I know there is more to the Valley than the RV parks. I enjoyed the time I spent there.
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It was just a little sarcasm, guess I should use the emoticons more.
We used to go to Reynosa when we were there. Kind of a creepy place if you walked into "Boys Town" by accident. Cops wearing gold watches, of course this was nearly 20 years ago... Fortunately my cousin was nearby, saw me walk in that direction and caught me before I got too far.
We did too. I've heard the border town are hurting some these days. Not so many folks go over for booze/prescriptions (and lunch of course). You could bring two bottles back and even the non-drinkers had to carry.