Favorite MS city / town / county names?

[was21]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Belzoni.

Or Yokena

 

[YesIAmAPirate]

Maybe somebody from around Tishomingo County can verify this for me. A buddy of mine from Burnsville once told me that Jacinto up there is pronounced as J-center. Is that correct? I know that down south I've always heard Gitano (just NW of SoSo) pronounced as Guy-tain-ah.

I'm not from Tish or Alcorn but relatively close. I have always pronounced it Jay-sin-tuh

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

Try explaining to someone that's not from MS that to drive from Clarksdale to Cleveland, you gotta drive through Alligator and Hushpuckena.

 

[Yeti]

Some names that non-Mississippians would have no idea what you're saying, nor could they pronounce it correctly.

I'll start - Keownville and "Lewis-vul"

Grew up in NawlBenny so I know how to say Keownville. Good to have a fellow 2 time bulldog on here ….if you aren’t from out in the county

 

[Wesson Bulldog]

It, MS. A suburb of Martinsville in Copiah County. 1 mile E of I-55 off exit 56.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Noxapater, since everything else is named

 

[thatsbaseball]

Hushpuckena

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

Grew up in NawlBenny so I know how to say Keownville. Good to have a fellow 2 time bulldog on here ….if you aren’t from out in the county

2x Bulldog here. In Union County, you're either a bulldog, a bird, or an Urchin...

 

[Yeti]

Chalybeate Ms. No idea how to pronounce it jus know where it’s at

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

Chalybeate Ms. No idea how to pronounce it jus know where it’s at

Everyone I've met up in Tipper County pronounces it Klee-bit

 

[DAWGSANDSAINTS]

Black Hawk
Coila

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

Also can't forget Brett Favre's hometown of Kiln, or you could also say, Brett Favor's hometown of Killin.

 

[Johnnie Come Lately]

Black Hawk
Coila

Teoc = Tough End of Carroll

 

[Xenomorph]

My go-to answer on this subject is always Gautier.

 

[eckie1]

I grew up in Lincoln County in Hog Chain. We had a store when I was little in the fork of the road but it burned…not really a town though. Our mail went to Bogue Chitto.

There was some famous Native American guy at the Neshoba County Fair one year in the 80’s. I guess he was in some movies or something. He spoke to the crowd after the stickball game, and he pronounced Bogue Chitto as any outsider would…. “BOgh CHITTO-O”. I love our pronunciations, but wish I knew which ones were truly accurate!

The dead giveaway one is Pass Christian. You couldn’t even try to pronounce that one as the locals do.

 

[aerodawg.sixpack]

Some names that non-Mississippians would have no idea what you're saying, nor could they pronounce it correctly.

I'll start - Keownville and "Lewis-vul"

Thyatira

 

[AROB44]

How many of you remember, before the Pearl River reservoir was built, a stop off the Trace called Yokhochny? I am sure I misspelled it but it is the best I can do.

 

[M R DAWGS]

Sabastapol

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Bobo
Soso
Thytira
Walnut
Tutwiler
Sabougla
Toccopola
Ingomar
Mantachie
Bellefontaine (very few pronounce it right)

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

Bobo
Soso
Thytira
Walnut
Tutwiler
Sabougla
Toccopola
Ingomar
Mantachie
Bellefontaine (very few pronounce it right)

My fiancé is an Ingomartian

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Wise’s Gap
Splunge
Alligator
Tilden
you should hear someone not from Mississippi try to pronounce Amory

 

[3000lbchicken]

Mine is a river. Yocona.

Pheba close second.

 

[CDawg08]

Pontotoc

 

[Dawgbite]

Pontotoc

Pon-E-tock

 

[maroonmadman]

How many of you remember, before the Pearl River reservoir was built, a stop off the Trace called Yokhochny? I am sure I misspelled it but it is the best I can do.

Yockanookany. It's a river that starts up in Attala Co. and flows into the Pearl above lowhead dam.

 

[JCsunshine89]

Chickasawhay River

Beat Four, not a town but a community named after the beat

Tokyo

Laurel, always thought it was funny the way people outside of Mississippi or the area say it.

Hundreds or Thousands, If you are from Wayne County you know what or where I’m talking about

 

[Pink Floyd.sixpack]

Mine is a river. Yocona.

Pheba close second.

How is Yocona pronounced? I assume it’s not phonetic??

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

How is Yocona pronounced? I assume it’s not phonetic??

I’ve always pronounced it Yock-na

 

[3000lbchicken]

I’ve always pronounced it Yock-na

Yock-NEE

 

[Mjoelner]

Chickasawhay River

Beat Four, not a town but a community named after the beat

Tokyo

Laurel, always thought it was funny the way people outside of Mississippi or the area say it.

Hundreds or Thousands, If you are from Wayne County you know what or where I’m talking about

Isn't Beat Four in Whistler?

 

[M R DAWGS]

I was in a deer camp on the river as a kid and we called it yock-hogany. Like mahogany

 

[Mjoelner]

Mine is a river. Yocona.

Pheba close second.

Yocona. That's up there around Toccopola which, according to my rebelbearshark gf is pronounced Tocco-pola instead of Toc-copola like I say it. For rivers, I like the Yockanookany. Down were I grew up, we used to swim in the Okatoma pronounced locally as Oka-tomy.

 

[3000lbchicken]

All those rivers get hotter than a hoochie coochie

 

[StumpNewGround]

Louise

Home to Hoover’s sauce. I don’t know how many generations deep Chinese family that have accents thicker than mine.

 

[biodawg]

Chickasawhay River

Beat Four, not a town but a community named after the beat

I lived next door to an old boy at Jones (before I went to State) that was from Clara in Wayne County, and that’s the only reason I know how to pronounce “Chickasawhay”

 

[johnson86-1]

Some people from elsewhere can’t even pronounce Biloxi properly and good luck with D’Iberville and Gautier

I’m not sure I know how to pronounce Gautier. I think it’s “Go shay”, but swear I’ve heard people from the coast call it “go-chay” and some from Wiggins pronounce it like Saucier.

 

[johnson86-1]

Black Hawk
Coila

Is black hawk not pronounced like it looks? I do know that Coila is named after them Australian bears.

 

[L4MANDW]

Bellefontaine

 

[JCsunshine89]

Isn't Beat Four in Whistler?

Yeah it is, but no one that i know of has ever really referred to it as that, if you ask someone from that area where they live, most likely they will say beat four.

 

[JCsunshine89]

I lived next door to an old boy at Jones (before I went to State) that was from Clara in Wayne County, and that’s the only reason I know how to pronounce “Chickasawhay

Yeah there’s a boat ramp that’s a frequented “spot” before you get to Clara on 63.
Curious, did he pronounce it like he was saying Clar-er , or did he add the uh as in Clar-uh

I have family from Clara. People from Clara believe that is Gods Country