Pronunciation versus Spelling

[1oldgoat]

When I lived there, Cuyahoga Falls was also called "Ticket City" due to the local PD's enthusiastic enforcement of traffic laws!

[dakotafred]

It involves a detour, so on my trips through South Dakota on U.S. 281 I've seen the signage but never called on the town of Athol to learn the local pronunciation. I'd be curious.

According to my atlas, there are three others so-named in the U.S., nicely distributed geographically: in Idaho, Kansas and Massachusetts.

[Enzoamps]

Here in Michigan, we have the small town of char-LOTTE, contrasting CHAR-lut NC.

 

We have a small town Pompeii, pronounced POM-pee-EYE.  Detroit (not day-TWAH) is full of street names like Gratiot (GRASH-ut), Livernois (LIVE-er-NOISE)

 

Someone already mentioned Sault Ste Marie, which is SOO saint marie, but to us it is just "the Soo". Yes, the same Soo as the railroad. Nearby is the Mackinac bridge as well as the same named Island and in the water, the straits.  That is pronounced MACK-ih-NAW.

[rcdrye]

Enzoamps

Here in Michigan, we have the small town of char-LOTTE, contrasting CHAR-lut NC.

Charlotte VT (Rutland/Vermont Railway) is pronounced the same way, and is the source of the name and pronunciation of the Michigan town - there are also other western Vermont names in the area - a legacy of the Erie Canal.  My mother's mother graduated from Charlotte MI High School, and my father's mother had a "cottage" in the Vermont town.

Over here on the other side of the Green Mountains there is the village of Ely ("EE-LEE") on the line between Thetford and Fairlee.