Speak Like a North Idahoan | Living In North Idaho [Pronunciation Class 101]

[@analyticalchick3064]

I keep forgetting how to pronounce Huetter and had been meaning to look up an old video, but you put this out and now I don't have to look for an old one. I kept thinking it was Hetter.

[@tatersquad2000]

I had to ask a lady at a museum in sandpoint how to pronounce pend oreille.

[@motherof1doll.]

Makes sence if Q’melin is pronounced Kamelin because Camp Kah-Me-Lin (one of the Campfire brand camp locations) is also in PF.

[@MrsRepairTech]

Idaho born, Post Falls raised, have always called it "Qwemlin," though city council website does list the other pronunciation. I think we've all agreed to disagree.

[@kraigshall]

This should be interesting

[@MrsRepairTech]

Seltice is "sell-tee-ss", Mullan is "muhl-in". I've heard those road names butchered a few times. :) We also refer to the freeway as "Eye-90", and highways are just the number, or sometimes "highway 53" if feeling verbose. Anyone have an opinion on Neider? I've heard it pronounced a few different ways. lol

[@saifai]

I've always heard it pronounced "nayder"

[@bonehook2]

You should mention bocal rd?

[@snowflake15sicesculpture]

As an Idahoan, got all right except Pend Oreille.

[@10seele]

I lived in Post Falls and worked at Gonzaga years ago. However, I can’t remember if Seltice is pronounced Sel-tis or Sel-tees. Thanks for your help.

[@analyticalchick3064]

My husband likes to pretend it's Italian and calls it sel-tee-chay

[@MrsRepairTech]

Sel-tees :)

[@stonevintage4616]

You Phorgot Phippeny Park!

[@xiaovikstorm57]

Nice video. The sound is a bit too loud though

[@kenbob126]

thinking about a move to the land of ID . retiring in the near future.

[@LivinginNorthIdaho]

Make sure to give us a call!

[@scottbenke7182]

Q'melin, Q'emiln, either way you spell it, it's still hard to pronounce. LOL

[@ke6264]

So I keep hearing Idaho has all this french influence and as someone with creole french speaking people in her family If Idaho has such a French influence how come ya'll don't speak french like the creole's and cajuns do down in Louisiana? Did large parts of Idaho speak french at one time and it just went away?

[@tonyhayes5188]

The French Canadians were trappers in the Pacific NW. Nothing in common with New Orleans

[@MrsRepairTech]

Idaho was part of the French Canadian trapper, logging, and mining industries going back to the early 1800's. I don't think the purely French influence was around long enough to stick more than in names (like place names, and the names we call Native American tribes) and a slight Canadian accent the farther north you go, since Idaho became part of the states in 1863. The gold/silver/mining boom of the same time period brought a lot of British / Welsh / Irish influences that competed with the French Canadian influence, too.

[@placeholder1980]

Why would you help Californians fit in?

[@analyticalchick3064]

Funny how the Californians are the ones judging anyone who moved from anywhere other than the COW states.

[@superslyko123]

I love it! Californian's have so much $$$ they don't even concern themselves with fitting in. 😌 F.U. money is a real thing.

[@tim1960ful]

Money!$$$$

[@tim1960ful]

How about you keep talking like you do and forget about moving here.