- Alabama place name pronunciations.
- We've done all the towns, we've done all the counties,
we've done people, we've done their pets.
Now, we're just doing places.
- I hope I do good.
I mean I'm from the state, I've been here forever.
- I am from here, I live here.
I've lived here for a really long time.
- I have no confidence in my ability to pronounce anything.
- Shaywacla.
- I've never heard of this.
- Chewbacca.
- I wish I did a good Wookie impersonation.
(purring)
- Chewacla State Park.
Go camping there all the time.
- (laughs) Chubbie.
- Hatchay-choobbee.
- Hatch-a-boochee.
- Hatch-a-shoobie.
(laughing)
- I'm sorry, that was just funny.
- I mean, I wanna just say it's Hatch-e-chubbee Creek.
- Thal-laca.
The loco.
- Tho-loco Reservoir.
- Has anyone pronounced the first word right
and then butchered reservoir?
- Tholocco reserve-ier.
That's not how you say that, is it?
- Thel-a-cola.
- Tel-o-co Reservoir.
If you say it with a British accent,
does that make it better?
- Thollocco Reservoir.
- [Woman] Yeah, oh my gosh.
- What?
- Big Bayou Ca-no.
- Big Bayou Can-not.
- Big Boo-ey. Big Bow-ey. Big Bay-ow.
- Big Bayou Cane-noe.
- Big Bayou Can-nut.
- Bay-you?
- Big Bayou Cannot.
- Sepul-gu-ay.
- Sepul-guh.
Sep... blaaaaa
- See
- See-pew
- Sep-ul-guh.
Sep-ul-gah.
- I've actually seen this,
but I don't think I've ever heard anybody say it.
- Sep-pull-guh river?
- Sep-pule-guh.
- Sepulga.
See-pew, sep-pole, see, now I can't say it again.
- Co-wick-ee, co-wick-ee, co-wick-ee Creek, huh?
- Co-why-Wikipedia.
- Wiki Leaks Creek.
- Oh, it kinda looks like Ikea.
So, cow-I-kee Creek.
- Calico Creek.
Kowabunga Creek.
- The K is not a K, then what would it be, a C?
- The K is not a K.
Well, no, it very clearly is a K.
- Just drop all the E's?
- Cow-why-key.
- I don't know, I don't know man.
- [Woman] Cowikee.
- Cowikee.
- That's not how you spell that.
Where the Agg?
- Hat-chee.
See, it's always the hat-chee thing.
- Cho-co-wa-hat-chee.
- Cho-shakali
- Chalks-taw-what
- Chalk-taw-watchee
- Chalk-taw-wachee
Chalk-taw-waa
- Wha-ha
- Way, we, wuh
- There is a w, I'm looking at it.
- Whall, I can't do anymore sounds out of my mouth.
I'm out of sounds.
- Wait is this the W thing again?
Aaa.. Chalk-ta-hatchee
- Oh my god
- Pat-ha (laughing)
- Like a lon maybe A-lon.
- Pa-sell-a-ga creek
- Pot-luck creek
- Patsi-league-a
- Their cat walked across the keyboard
- Pat-a-slug creek
- Pat-si-liga creek
- Pasla-ga creek
- Pat, Pat-sa-liga creek,
Pat-sa-lie-guh, Pat-sa-lie-guh creek
Got it right, first time.
- Cha-le-beia
- Shayla-lay-be Springs
- This is getting worse, and worse
- Chaylee-bee-at-ee
- Cha-lee-beat
- Feel like I'm back in speech class
when I was like six years old.
- Pronounce the first part
- Sha, Sha, Sha
- Chess springs
- All the A's, don't say don't say none of the A's
- Get rid of the silent letters
- [Woman] You got it, I believe in you.
- Ahhhhh...
- Just... Whatever it's not.
- Cla
- [Woman] Don't stop
- Cla... what? Cla
- Cla, Cla-bee-eight springs
- Clee-bit springs (laughing) I got it.
- Choco-loco
- Choca-choca-choca-choca-cha
- This like Choco-lalala
- Ch (laughing)
- This looks like chocolate.
- Isn't this a candy bar.
- If it's not Chocoloco than I,
I need to talk to someone, I need to see your manager.
- Choco-lololo-co
- Like you are straight up Choco-loco
- Choc-uh-lock-uh creek, nice, choc-uh-laca
- Boom cha-ca-laca, boom cha-ca-laca
- Mount Chia, hia, see-a, hey-a, chey-a
- Mount oh is it she-ha
- Oh I know this one Mount Chee-haw
- Mount Chee-haw, beautiful
- That's the highest point in Alabama
- Wed-o-wee
- Wed-a-weed-a-wee, Lake Wa-dow-wee
- Lake Wa-doe-wee
- Lake Wa-dow-wee, No!
- Lake Wa-dow-wee,
- [Woman] No
- Okay we're going to fight on this one.
- Lake Wee-dow-ee
- [Woman] Yeah
(laughing)
- But it's Wa-dow-wee
- [Woman] It's pronounced Wee-dow-ee
- Wee-dow no its
- [Woman] Wa-dow-wee
- Wa-dow-wee, yeah
- [Woman] Wee-dow-ee
- What did I say?
- [Woman] Wa-dow-ee
- Oh my, you are getting so picky right now.
- [Woman] I'm gettting
- I said Lake Wa-dow-ee, and you're saying it's Lake Wa
- [Woman] Wee-dow-ee
- That's the same thing
- Yeah but who'd have said we in the south it's just a Wh.
- That's exactly what I just said, Lake Wa-dow-ee
- [Woman] Lake Wee-dow-ee
- Wa-dow-ee
- [Woman] Wee-dow-ee
- Wa-dow-ee
- [Woman] Wee-dow-ee
- Is that, that's what I'm saying
- This is all my, my mind is just like
(laughing) I don't know
- Mmm... Alabama ya got me
- Yeah I need like ya know to talk to someone
- I am super disappointed in myself, because I I
life long Alabamian,
um I thought I was gonna just ace this thing
- Yeah I mean it sounds like there's a lot of cool places
in Alabama that I had no idea existed, so.
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