How Do You Say These American Places? | CALIFORNIA EDITION

i mean looking at this word there's no reason to believe that it should be pronounced so i think what i will do is just just make an audible or inaudible noise hello i'm laurence and i'm on a quest to uncover all of the memos that britain and america lost in the pond and one of those memos pertains to place names especially place names are really hard to say so far in this series i've looked at some of the tricky cities in all of the a states now we're on to the seas that sees as in the lettuces and not you know the caspian and so alphabetically that means we've arrived at california but then you knew that if you've already seen the last video in this series since i posted the last video in this series hundreds of you got in touch giving me your suggestions for california in the end as always i had to whittle it down to the suggestions from 10 people known as the timeless 10. a big thank you for those and the next state up is colorado so if you would like to make the timeless 10 put your suggestions for colorado below in the meantime if you are from california or know somebody who is share this video with them pronto but wait until you've seen it yourself in the meantime here is my inevitably feeble attempt at pronouncing these california places looking at this i mean you know instinctively i would say rancho cucamonga which now that i've said it sounds ridiculously wrong it's those c's in the second word that are the things that are going to be tripping me up here let's change that first c sound to more of a sir so rancho super manga let's take a look at what it actually is rancho cucamonga what i was right more or less the first time now the timeless 10 suggested this one numerous times and i have no problem with the first word presumably it's that second word looks like it's gonna be a big nightmare i noticed there are three e's in there so that should be horrible you know instinctively you'd say it's pronounced huay neyme i don't know what to do with this maybe it's pork huniem it can't be that it's i'm going with my first instinct again that's what the first guest taught me on this porthue that is how i said it she is the ceo and port director of the port of wai nimi and your panelist john slanger hold on stop speaking port of and now when you look in the comments beneath this video it looks like people pronounce it a hundred million ways either way not a single one of those ways was the way i originally said it so that's that's a zero all right this one came up a lot and once again it looks like a mouthful just thinking about it and sounding it out it would seem that this word should be but probably isn't chuo lumny which sounds like somebody from tatooine and is almost certainly not how you actually say this i mean those first vowels they've got to be used in a weird way it's something like chiaulimuni you know that shut up lawrence i don't know why i wiggled my tongue it might have helped i can't do anything with that last bit there's no other way looking at that to say it without going lumny as if i'm from the north of england which i am but it doesn't help me here does it i bet i bet i bet i i bet you any money that one of those letters is absolutely silent chuo lu mei i'm going to go with chuo lume all of me oh come on i was so close to getting that right it's always about the emphasis to all of me i'm gonna have to commit that to memory siskiyou cisco me siskiyou it's definitely not said that way i bet this one is ciscaeu because those eyes right they they look at you like eyes and they tell you oh it's going to be pronounced this way that trips you up and you end up getting it wrong when it should have been pronounced the way i just said so i think it is saskia and i'm sticking with that that's my final answer lock it in skew siskew it was the eye wasn't it ah i'm finally gonna have some points on the board because i do know this one but i didn't used to know it i used to think it was pronounced mojave and then i moved to america and heard people pronouncing it and thankfully i didn't say my version out loud because this desert which i understand is not just in california right is pronounced mohave desert mojave desert and we're on the board and i also know this one because i just do but then again maybe i've been saying it wrong like the rest of the country and the locals know it by a different sound i've heard this as la jolla la jolla pretty straightforward la jolla is acceptable so i think i get another point we are really on a roll now can we get over half right probably not i would say definitely not after seeing this entry because me and native american words we are we have a history i'm going to attempt this it's going to be awful bracey sells arwa it's emphasis it's going to be emphasis driven i bet it's aweney you say it fast just say fast say it fast and with confidence and you will be correct it's our ni california iwani california awani california so that's wrong then back in the day i would definitely pronounce this los banos because in england that's how we treat the os letters in spanish but even so the problem here is clearly going to be that second word is it banos is it bannos is it thanos he's nothing to do with any of this i bet it's going to be los benos and if it's not my name's maria no spanish no stop stop what so the that oh it's not it's not os it's banis i'm very tempted to pronounce this one kahunga but what did we learn earlier with port wayne or whatever it was the w comes into play it's like a super power and i think that's what happens here with that hue part therefore i'm gonna go with cowenga i've also just remembered that none of this is consistent so that's not how you say it how do you say it let's find out okay the wiki page has a number of different pronunciations the leading one is this i was slightly off i think with that first syllable but i believe i deserve a point because i use my intuition correctly to get that w sound oh thank you to the people at home for allowing me that point erica erica like the name erica or the word eureka i just had a eureka moment i bet this is pronounced eureka and you go there you realize what it's called that you you have this bout of irony because of what eureka means why rika that is really disappointing just five letters how hard can it be uk familiar with that it's not the same thing and iah yukaya it goes between yukaya or yukiya or ukaya or ukiya or ukiya or many other things so i think on this occasion i'm i'll flip a coin do we have a co we don't have a coin i don't have a coin i will i'll flip my phone not a flip phone it is in fact a smartphone and there's a hard floor beneath me better catch it that's tails that's heads tails it's you heads it's ooh oh goodness sorry i hit the mic it was heads i think i can't remember what i did i'm just gonna go with you sorry i did any of that uh ukaya or is it ukiya i think ukaya final answer yukaya no couldn't do it again i meant tails well at least we're finishing with another one that i already know the answer to although before i moved to america i didn't i used to pronounce this yosemite and there'll be people saying well had you never heard of yosemite sam i've seen him he was the guy with the moustache but i didn't know his name i said you heard me say that yosemite is how this is pronounced yosemite oh yeah jeez you remember a minute ago when i said five letters how hard can it be seems like somebody invented this just to cheat at scrabble i i've seen this word before though in fact i think it came up on a video a few years ago but i have about as much recollection of how to say it as there are vowels in this word i mean looking at this word there's no reason to believe that it should be pronounced so i think what i will do is just just make an audible or inaudible noise memory serves me correct that final zed slash z is silent i think it's something like xyzax or zuzix zuzik sounds like a mouthful it sounds like somebody's trying to say sussex while drunk which is not about etymology for a word honestly i think that's this is where i'll go i'm going to go with zzx i hate everything and yes you have a good voice but you're gonna have to stop now i'll never forget that again will i that's it for this episode thank you for your suggestions if you send them in the next state is colorado so if you have any hard-to-pronounce place names from there please let me know in the comments below so that you can be featured in the timeless den i'm laurence brown you can follow me on twitter and lost in the pond us and don't forget to subscribe to my channel so that my videos don't get lost in the pond and a massive thank you to my patrons some of whom were among the timeless ten if you would like to support this channel you can do so today at patreon.com lost in the pond until the next video goodbye [Music] you

Channel: Lost in the Pond

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Keywords: Laurence Brown, America, How do you say these California places, Pronounce

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Length: 9min 42sec (582 seconds)

Published: Wed May 04 2022