Favorite MS city / town / county names?

[Coast_Dawg]

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.

Either way is better than Gaw-tea-er or Gaw-tee-ay

 

[3000lbchicken]

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

I go full full French on Bellefontaine. Probably wrong too. Bullfountain?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I go full full French on Bellefontaine. Probably wrong too. Bullfountain?

Bellfountain

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

French, Indian, Spanish, English we’ve had such a melting pot in this state it’s no wonder we have some strange names. I remember back in high school. We actually had a class called Mississippi History, and there were some some really crazy maps of who all had land in Mississippi throughout the state history. They probably have burned all the Mississippi history books or at least you know they probably don’t teach tha subject anymore.

 

[Mr Todd French]

How about Arm and Sontag

 

[DAWGSANDSAINTS]

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

It sure is but that wasn’t the subject of the title of the thread.
And no, Coila and Koala are pronounced totally different dubmass
and Coila is definitely not named after the Australian Bear

 

[SLB2]

Weir, Kosciusko and Yockanookany

 

[woozman]

I just enjoy how Hollywood types butcher and mispronounce "Biloxi." And don't get me started on Saucier (my grandma's hometown).

You’d be surprised at how many Mississipians think Gautier (my hometown) and Saucier are pronounced the same except with the G and S switched. Has cracked me up numerous times over the years: to hear “So Shay” and the look when I tell them, nope - “So Sure”…

Funny side story. We went to Hawaii a few years ago and it amazed me that the GPS on my phone would correctly pronounce these super long street names in Hawaii that looked like a jumble of letters. Can it correctly pronounce Gautier-Vancleave Road? Nope, lol…

 

[woozman]

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

Can’t leave out “the”….. The Kill…

 

[woozman]

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.

Most of us say “go shay”, but old timers, like my uncle who has lived here for 60 years, say “go chay”…

 

[MaroonSadness99]

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

I’m from the dirty as well

 

[MaroonSadness99]

My fiancé is an Ingomartian

Mama wouldn’t let us talk to kids from the county when I was growing up!

 

[YesIAmAPirate]

I’m from the dirty as well

 

[YesIAmAPirate]

you should hear someone not from Mississippi try to pronounce Amory

That silent "O" gets them every time

 

[cowbell88]

Anguilla, Nita Yuma, Ita Bena, Isola, Inverness, Booger Den

 

[MaroonSadness99]

Let’s go!

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Anguilla, Nita Yuma, Ita Bena, Isola, Inverness, Booger Den

I have a friend that farms near Booger Den.

 

[cowbell88]

I have a friend that farms near Booger Den.

Thats some tough dirt to farm. Takes gumbo to the next level.

 

[Ranchdawg]

Mhoon Landing

 

[SwampDawg]

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"

Isn't there, or didn't there used to be, a Buzzard Roost?

 

[FreeDawg]

A non local will butcher Pass Christian. The Google maps voice annihilates Gluckstad but it’s probably the actual German pronunciation (Glook…)

 

[johnson86-1]

It sure is but that wasn’t the subject of the title of the thread.
And no, Coila and Koala are pronounced totally different dubmass

I will set up a duel between you and the guy from Carrolton that told me how to pronounce Coila then. Or maybe I need to know how you pronounce Koala? Maybe one of us is pronouncing that wrong.

and Coila is definitely not named after the Australian Bear

Are you sure? The spelling seems to similar to be coincidental.

 

[Dawgbite]

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

More often than not it’s Armory. Since you must be from Moron County, have you ever heard of Bristol Ms in Monroe County?

 

[99jc]

you think Mississippi has odd names Arkansas has toad suck-pickles gap-and blueball

 

[The Peeper]

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.

It's definitely not Gih-tohn- o , its Guy-tain-ah as you said.

 

[The Peeper]

Where did we ever get "Fee-bee" from Phoeba? And Bell-Fountain from Bellefontain

 

[kired]

Saltillo - almost everyone out of state will pronounce it sal-tee-ow

 

[stateu1]

I always laugh at the generic town name "West."

"I live just east of West."

 

[CochiseCowbell]

you think Mississippi has odd names Arkansas has toad suck-pickles gap-and blueball

That was one wild night, and as you can tell it didn't end well.

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

Mama wouldn’t let us talk to kids from the county when I was growing up!

You mess up and say the word "consolidate" around Myrtle, Ingomar, Blue Springs, or Etta/Poolville, you'll be given the death penalty. I assume the same goes for Tippah County with Blue Mountain, Pine Grove, Walnut, and Falkner.

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

you think Mississippi has odd names Arkansas has toad suck-pickles gap-and blueball

Don't forget Goobertown...

 

[msudawg1200]

Toomsuba in Lauderdale County

 

[MaroonSadness99]

You mess up and say the word "consolidate" around Myrtle, Ingomar, Blue Springs, or Etta/Poolville, you'll be given the death penalty. I assume the same goes for Tippah County with Blue Mountain, Pine Grove, Walnut, and Falkner.

You’re right but then they also vote against funding to keep those schools going…

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

you think Mississippi has odd names Arkansas has toad suck-pickles gap-and blueball

Bald Knob

 

[stateu1]

Bald Knob

Weiner

 

[maroonmadman]

I always laugh at the generic town name "West."

"I live just east of West."

If you live 5 miles east of West you would live in Possumneck.

 

[thekimmer]

A few from my neck of the woods. Rio, Prismatic, Wahalak, Kewanee

 

[coach66]

Or Yokena

Pelahatchie, Choctaw for crooked creek. According to my late dad the garden spot of Rankin county

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Did I miss Coffeeville?
Locals don't call it that.

 

[DoomSlayer]

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.

Born and raised in Tish county and your buddy is wrong. It’s pronounced how it’s spelled.