- Hello class.
Today we will be pronouncing town names
from the state of Virginia.
- Virginia, we're happy to include you.
- I've heard Virginia's for lovers though.
- And for mispronouncing town names.
- Let's bring it!
Bring it Virginia.
- A, R, A, R, A with a T.
- A-wa-wa-wa.
- Arada-rat.
- Ararat?
A-rat.
Araty.
- What kinda rat?
Ara-rat.
- Ay-rah-rat.
Oh, my god, this is gonna be.
I'm gonna fail this whole thing.
- Base-ah?
Basil?
- Bas-aye, the perfume.
- Bas-ee?
- Bas-eye?
- Bay-see?
Bay-see.
- It's all about that bay-see.
No treble.
- Okay Virginia, we're getting serious.
Bout-tu-tort?
- Bot-tet-orty?
- Bo-te-tort?
- But-e-tart?
- Bot-uh-tott.
- Oh, my gosh.
That's terrible.
Bot-uh-tott.
- Ah, after our great President.
Bu-can-an.
- If it's not Bu-can-an,
is it super weird?
- Wait, Buc-an-nu-un.
- Buck-ann-un.
One for, however many.
- My mom crochets baby blankets.
So I'm just gonna throw crochet out there,
just because it's Virginia.
- Cro-zet?
- Corset?
- Kroh-zay?
Kroh-zay.
- Oh, may, y'all keep tryin' to make me say bad words.
- Fa-qui-er.
- Far-queer.
- Fak-cure.
- Fak-e-er.
- Fok-que.
- Faw-keer.
- Sounds like a villain, like a Disney villain or something.
That's old Fauquier, look out for him.
- Glue-ester.
(laughs)
- Glow-chester.
- Glow-ce-ster.
- Gow.
- Glow-lib-low, glob-caster is popin'.
- Gloss-ter.
I'm getting there.
- This sounds like some kind of disease
that old people get in their feet.
- I wanna say hay-see, but I'm sure that's not it.
- Hi-see.
That's like the little juice box things, right?
- Hi-ya-see.
- Ha-see?
- Ho-ha-sees?
- Hay-sye.
Wow, you just gotta turn the right vowel around.
- Oh my Lord!
- Kill-monger.
Uh, kill-monarch.
- Kill-more-knock.
- Kill-more-knock?
- Kill-marr-nock, nailed it.
- So this town was named for the McGays.
- Mick-gays-ville.
Mick-gaze-ville.
- My-gayes-ville.
- Mick-guys-ville.
Mick-gack-ees-ville.
- That word is not mick-gack-ees-ville.
Is that how you say?
Mick-gack-ees?
- This is the name of Pocahontas' dad.
- Uh, pow-hay-dan.
Pow-wa-tan.
Po-wa-tan.
- Pow-hate-an.
I'm just a pow-hate-an person.
- Powo-uh-tain.
- Pow-hah-tan.
- Didn't something important happen at Powhatan?
Yeah, it's Virginia, there's a war everywhere, probably.
- Pul-aye-ski?
- Pull-aw-ski.
Is it ski?
- Pee-you-ah-ski.
Pil-ah-ski.
- It's not p-you-ah-ski?
Pyoo-lass-kee.
- Pyoo, this spelling stinks.
- Swoop!
- Swoop in the coop!
- Swoop!
- Nah, not swoop?
- Swo-pee?
- Swoop!
It's swoop!
- Swohp.
Yay! (laughs)
- Swohp, getting swol and Swoope.
- This looks too easy.
St-awn-tin.
- St-ah-ton.
- Stan-ton.
- Stann-ton.
Yeah.
- See the "U", why would you put a "U" there?
- Now I know, let's try this next one.
Oh, that's it.
- Did not do well.
Did not do well.
- Okay, Virginia, you surprised me.
We had some ups and downs.
- Next time I go to Virginia,
I'm not pronouncing any of the town names
so I don't look like a fool.
- I just wanna read it in my head
and just let the mispronunciation happen up here.
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