14 Places You Are Probably Pronouncing Wrong

Wrongly pronounced by many as "Looey-ville", that is what many may be saying but the correct pronunciation is "loo-a-vull" or "loo-a-ville".

This place in New York is mostly pronounced wrongly as "ski-nek-tay-dee", when actually the correct pronunciation of the name of this place is "skuh-nek-ta-dee".

With most people finding hard to correctly pronounce this place, saying "mak-in-ak", when the known right way to pronounce it is "mak-uh-naw".

Pronouncing this name as "po-keep-see" is considered incorrect, the correct form of pronouncing it is "puh-kip-see".

If you are not from Washington you probably might miss the right way to pronounce this name and probably end up saying "spoh-cane", learn that the correct pronunciation is actually "spoh-kan".

Pronouncing it as "new oar-leenz" is considered incorrect, apparently this one has three different pronunciations considered appropriate, and those are "new oar-lee-uh-nz" "new oar-luh-nz" or "new oar-leenz".

This is another name not pronounced well, this Canadian city is incorrectly pronounced as "tuh-ron-toh" but actually, it is "traw-no" Most American English speakers will throw away the second "t", Torontonians tend to drop it while pronouncing. People there believe that pronouncing that second "t" would definitely prove that you are not from here.

one might be saying "mon-tree-awl" but people in this town pronounce the first part of montreal as "muhn", making the popular absolute correct way to pronounce it "muhn-trawl"

When you are not from around this town, you are likely to say "kwi-bec" but actually, it's: keh-bec or kay-bec, the "w" is silent when pronouncing this name here.

A lot of people may find it hard to put this name in its rightful pronunciation and end up saying "say-chee-les" when actually the right way to say it is "sey-shel" or "sey-shelz".

This place is known for its beauty and therefore everyone ought to capture the pronunciation correctly, you do not want to spoil the beauty in its name by wrongly pronouncing it as "an-tee-gwah", when the correct way is "an-tee-guh".

On reading, You might end up saying "saint craw-cks" when it should be "saint kroi", the best way to sound refined in saying this name is by forgetting the "x"

you do not say "nahys", the appropriate way to pronounce it is "nees", a french person would have it right.

complex as it may seem, the sound from your lips should not be that of "aches-on-pro-vanz" just make sure it sounds "ek-sahn-praw-vahns" On going through this and giving it much time, will have every pronunciation right, this names can be confusing especially to non-locals of this towns.