Biloxi, Ms is it pronounced...

[Missy M]

Biloxi - lox like bagels and lox
or
Biluxi - lux like lux soap?

[SmokingJacket]

1. Ux. nt

[TexasLady]

2. lux

[MildyRules]

3. LUX

[YellerdawgFlorida]

4. Also, for the record

Mobile is pronounced mo-BEEL, not MO-bill, or MO-beel. Some of these CNN reporters are mangling both.

[MildyRules]

7. True dat!

[hobbit709]

5. Actually, having been there in 1970

it's pronounced "AARRGGHH!!"

[MildyRules]

6. LMAO

[Gruenemann]

8. Lux, unless you want to sound like a Yankee tourist.

And it's New Orlins. Not the big easy. Just like San Francisco is The City, not frisco. So I'm wondering, do New Yorkers scoff at 'the big apple' too?

[MildyRules]

10. It's actually

N'awlins, but only us natives REALLY pronounce it that way; and only to each other.

[Gruenemann]

12. True. I was just trying to steer people away from

New Orleeeeens. gaaa! Only permissible in a song if it needs to rhyme.
Of course N'awlins is in Orleeeens Parish...
Let's not open the can of worms that is street name pronunciation (Terpsichore, Chartres, etc...)

[MildyRules]

13. Right you are!

Thanks for the laugh. I need it today.

[kliljedahl]

32. You forgot

Tchapatoulis

[Missy M]

21. I don't know if New York City people resent being called the Big Apple.

I know the rest of us in New York State who don't live in NYC scoff at the idea the only place in New York State is New York City. Thank you for the answer to New Orleans because I was wondering about that too. I knew I would get the right answer on DU that is why I love DU so much.

[eallen]

9. In recent years, it was prounounced kuh-SEE-no.

[Gruenemann]

11. LMAO! So True

Interesting bit of linguistic trivia here--in Italy, a kuh-SEE-no is a brothel; if you want to gamble you go to a CA-si-no.

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[MildyRules]

15. Sort of like most of the North

could be called Dumbass-Steotyping-Idiot-Ville?

[Pinksan]

17. High five!

:spank:

[newyawker99]

34. Hi Pinksan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Pinksan]

35. Thank you. Thought I would slip in unnoticed.

Been a reader forever. But felt a need to throw my two cents around. :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

16. Right...there are only communities like that in the South.

Screw you and your elitist south-bashing.

Edit - added a space

[livvy]

22. How rude. I can't believe you posted that.

I think the posters were just having a little fun. Try not to be so thin-skinned.

[calico1]

18. They do the same to Northern cities.

How do you pronounce Worcester (MA)?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

23. Hey! That's my hometown!!

Wista rhymes with Mista. :-)

[MildyRules]

25. Wow!

I didn't know that's how it was pronounced by the natives. Thanks!

[calico1]

26. I was asking because I have heard

a lot of reporters (and people not from the area) pronounce it:

"Warchester." LOL.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

28. You'd think they, I dunno, make a phone call to find out first

I guess the days of putting effort into journalism are over.

[Tracer]

29. Worcester ain't the hardest for non-Massholes ...

It very well could be Scituate (on the South Shore).

A woman once asked me for directions to Si - TOO - it, and I didn't know what the heck she was talking about.

It's pronounced SITCH - oo - it.

[calico1]

30. I can't blame regular people for getting it wrong.

I think most people would tend to say it the way they think it is pronounced. But I think reporters should educate themselves better.

[Missy M]

27. So true - in my area we have Indian names for many of the....

suburbs and anyone new to the area has a real hard time.

[CitrusLib]

33. Wuh-stah!

My all-time fav is Peabody though. I love how it's pronounced there. Just rolls off the tongue.

(Southerner who spent 3 years in Nashua, NH)

[Tracer]

19. Had to laugh at Aaron Brown last night.

He was talking to a reporter in Baton Rouge and the two of them were desperately trying for a (I suppose) Louisiana pronunciation of the city --- Ba TAWN Rouge.

After a few attempts, they both went back to BAT 'n Rouge.

[MildyRules]

20. LMAO

[Gruenemann]

24. AND in light of where landfall is taking place,

Pass Christian is "pass cris-CHAN." I've heard of outsiders trying to find "Pasker's Chan" on the map!

Then there's the supposedly true story about the tourist in San Antonio wondering if we had a large Muslim population here, thinking De Zavala Road was "Days of Allah."

[Endangered Specie]

31. lux, and also, New Orleans is not pronounced "Nawlinz"

[NNN0LHI]

36. Illinois settlement was once an outpost of the French colony of Louisiana

And its pronounced noy. Not noise.

Don