America’s Commonly Mispronounced Towns And Cities; Schenectady Ranked

Pronounced Spo-CAN, not Spo-CANE.

The city's name means "children of the sun".

My-LEN, not Mi-LAHN, is anout 40 minutes from Toledo, OH. It is believed that Italian immigrants named the city after the city in their homeland.

The Town is used to people mispronouncing the name and even say "the name is just a name" in their promotional commercials.

This is one I would never have guessed unless reading the pronunciation first: Ber-NEE.

The city was named in honor the German-Jewish political writer Ludwig Börne and use the tag line "Boerne – as unique as our name!"

With just about a 6,600 population how would you say this town's name?

Take a second.

The real way to say it: Sqwim. Think swim with a q thrown in.

Schenectady drops in at No.5 on this list and why wouldn't it?

I had troubles the first time I read the city name and nearly every out of towner I talk to on the phone when giving the station's address ask me either how to spell or pronounce it.

I don't think I need put the pronunciation but for good measure: ski-NEK-tuh-dee

More letters in the name of this Southern town then what is actually used. How do you say it?

Sly - like a fox. How do you get that out of Schley, I don't know.

Pronounced HELL-e-na, not Hel-AY-na.

Miners from Minnesota renamed the town after Saint Helena, which is also a city in their home state.

WOR-ches-ter? No.

WOR-sess-ter? No.

WUSS-TER? Yep

This Florida destination with nearly 60,000 in population gets their name butchered on a regular basis.

ka-SIM-mee is the proper way to say, not KISS-a-mee.

La HOY-a would be the right way to pronounce this seaside California town. Though most say it like La JOL-LA.

The town name has town meanings: In Spanish it means "The Jewel" and in Native American "Hole in the Mountains".