Novi (pronouced NOE vi, with a long i) was so named because it the sixth stop on a stagecoach line. The "No" was the abbreviation for number (No.) , and the "vi" was the Roman numeral for 6 (VI).
@@uajw7269 nope. It's archaic french. Sault used to to means rapids; so when Pere Jacques Marquette founded the settlement on both sides of the St. Mary's River (because yes until after the war of 1812, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario used to be the same city as SSM, MI.) Translated from archaic French it means "By the Rapids of the St. Mary's.
Dowagiac. (Doe-wah-Jack) The G is pronounced as a J. It’s a Potawatomi word meaning “Fishing near home water” Dowagiac is the Headquarters for the Potawatomi Indian tribe. One of the Four Winds Casino’s is located there. It’s also home to Southwestern Michigan College (Roadrunners.) Dowagiac has a lot of history. The Artificial fishing lure was invented there. It was once known as the “ Furnace Capital of the World “ “Stove Town “ most of the furnace and stove companies were in Dowagiac. Round Oak foundry was big. Americas first spaceman Iven Kincheloe set the altitude record was a 1945 Dowagiac High graduate. “ The Gentle Giant “ Chris Taylor Olympic wrestler was from the Dowagiac. Webb Miller journalist was from Dowagiac area. Webb Millers Biography is very interesting. What a life! Many other notable people call Dowagiac home.
Answers: MACK-i-naw ip-si-LAN-tee shar-LOT BO BLOW doe-wah-JACK on-in-DAH-ga OCK-ee-ock on-tah-NAH-gin BAY-ta GRAY Kitch-iti-kipi is just how it looks.
"BEHT GRiZ"? All the locals in the Keweenaw (← now pronounce that!) pronounce "Bete Grise" as "Bay Degree" -- Not "Beet Grease", as it was called by the mate on the White Gull, in Ethel C. Brill's book (click →) "Copper Country Adventure": www.uproc.lib.mi.us/SecordPress/CopperCountry/Adventurefull.htm P.S. "the guy say [sic] it correctly"?
There are so many more. Try these: Ewen Kaleva L'Anse Lake Fanny Hooe ("Fanny Who?"¹) Liminga Nisula Omena Oneco Onekama Palo Paavola Pori Tahquamenon (Falls) Toivola Traunik Trenary ― (¹Legend has it that Fanny Hooe (for whom the lake was named) was the sister-in-law of a young officer assigned to nearby Ft. Wilkins. She arrived at the Fort with the Captain William Alburtis family in 1846. Stories of her disappearance vary, either insisting she was picking berries outside the Fort and was either lost in the nearby forest, killed and eaten by a bear who resented her intrusion on his berry patch, or she was abducted by an Indian in retaliation for white man's intrusion on former tribal lands. She was never found, so no one knows.)
Here are a few more, did we miss these? Copemish, a village in Cleon township, Manistee County. Kaleva, a village in Manistee County. Macatawa, an unincorporated community in Laketown township, Allegan County (also Lake Macatawa).
Yup, New Englanders always think they have the rest of the country beat when it comes to crazy pronunciations, because they've butchered so many British names. Then they come to the northern midwest and are confronted by all the Native American/French hybrid words we've butchered, and realize they actually have it pretty easy in NE!
I was born and raised in Ann Arbor, but then I moved to the south almost 8 years ago, when I was 11. I knew a couple, but the rest of the cities I had never heard of before. Maybe because I lived in southeastern Michigan and I never went that far up north! I feel ashamed!
I wanna see people pronounce Vergennes and Lowell. I've seen some people pronounce Vergennes as Virgins including Siri. Google maps pronounces it as "Ver-gen-niss". Another GPS pronounces is at "Verdegens".
@@Arlothed1noWell, GPS does lots and lots of goofy things. As an Uber/Lyft driver in Ann Arbor I've heard a few good ones. My favorite is a street called Traverwood (TRAY-ver-wood) which the GPS pronounces "tra-VER-wood".
Depends on what you consider to be the correct pronunciation. How the origin language of the name pronounces it or how the locals pronounce it. For example, next to Dowagiac (or dog patch for local slang) is a town called Eau Claire, French for clear water. Should be pronounced O Clare, unless you’re from Eau Claire, then it’s Aw Clare.
"D&M": Not to hijack, but that brings to mind memories (ca. late 1940s/early 1950s) of the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic (DSS&A), a.k.a. "Dust, Sand, Soot & Ashes" (From the steam locomotive era.) or "Damn Slow Service & Abuse" (Thinking of that interminable hour or more spent banging and crashing in the Trout Lake rail yard disassembling and reassembling the westbound passenger train, just a mere ≈ 30 miles after crossing the straits on one of the railroad ferries!)
I'm from Michigan (and have lived here for all 30+ years of my life). Never /thought/ about how some of these were pronounced. even I'm learnin'. But I can spell Tittabawassee and Shaiwassee in my sleep 😂...
@@Thousandaire-n7o yeah I know where it is lol, my cabin is on the river, I was wondering where it was in the video, I can’t even type it correctly lol but I can say it
Mackinac - MAC in awe Ypsilanti - IP sil anni Charlotte - CHAR lot Bois Blanc - Boy Blank ("a" from "blah"; girl in green shirt got it right, eventually) Dowagiac - Doe WAH jak Onondaga - Ah non DA guh Ocqueoc - Ah KEY Ock Ontonagon - On TOE na gon Bete Grise - Beh DE gree (rhymes with pedigree) Kitch-iti-kipi - Kitch EH-teh ki-PEE
How about showing the proper pronunciations at the end?
kingarthurup I know what a shortcoming video
Michigan only had enough money in their budget for their Amazon mic, used Craigslist GoPro and the gas money to drive from Lansing to Ann Arbor.
Best part: when the guy drinks his pop to avoid "Ocqueoc."
Its soda first of all but that was funny
It’s pop in Michigan
Yep, exactly!
@@mannyserry its "POP" here in the Mitten
That part killed me
Love me some Michigan! Great ppl & state.
Agreed :)
Novi (pronouced NOE vi, with a long i) was so named because it the sixth stop on a stagecoach line. The "No" was the abbreviation for number (No.) , and the "vi" was the Roman numeral for 6 (VI).
I am so glad that finally someone put Ocqueoc in one of these. Not much of a place, But I have been traveling there my entire life and love it!
(ÔK-kē-ôk)
www.michigan.gov/documents/lara/OCQUEOC-2_549063_7.mp3
@Daya Ryelle ock e ock, basically
dang i was hoping Sault Ste. Marie was gonna be there i like hearing people say salt instead of soo
What its not salt? Im from michigan and said it like that this whole time
@@uajw7269 nope. It's archaic french.
Sault used to to means rapids; so when Pere Jacques Marquette founded the settlement on both sides of the St. Mary's River (because yes until after the war of 1812, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario used to be the same city as SSM, MI.)
Translated from archaic French it means "By the Rapids of the St. Mary's.
Ah yes, the only time I don't cringe and instead laugh is with the Sault Ste. Marie
Dowagiac. (Doe-wah-Jack) The G is pronounced as a J. It’s a Potawatomi word meaning “Fishing near home water” Dowagiac is the Headquarters for the Potawatomi Indian tribe. One of the Four Winds Casino’s is located there. It’s also home to Southwestern Michigan College (Roadrunners.) Dowagiac has a lot of history. The Artificial fishing lure was invented there. It was once known as the “ Furnace Capital of the World “ “Stove Town “ most of the furnace and stove companies were in Dowagiac. Round Oak foundry was big. Americas first spaceman Iven Kincheloe set the altitude record was a 1945 Dowagiac High graduate. “ The Gentle Giant “
Chris Taylor Olympic wrestler was from the Dowagiac. Webb Miller journalist was from Dowagiac area. Webb Millers Biography is very interesting. What a life! Many other notable people call Dowagiac home.
Answers:
MACK-i-naw
ip-si-LAN-tee
shar-LOT
BO BLOW
doe-wah-JACK
on-in-DAH-ga
OCK-ee-ock
on-tah-NAH-gin
BAY-ta GRAY
Kitch-iti-kipi is just how it looks.
Bete Grise (grey beast in french) : BEHT GRiZ (same "i" as in "taxi")
The guy at 1:22 say it correctly
"BEHT GRiZ"? All the locals in the Keweenaw (← now pronounce that!) pronounce "Bete Grise" as "Bay Degree" -- Not "Beet Grease", as it was called by the mate on the White Gull, in Ethel C. Brill's book (click →) "Copper Country Adventure":
www.uproc.lib.mi.us/SecordPress/CopperCountry/Adventurefull.htm
P.S. "the guy say [sic] it correctly"?
"on-tah-NAH-gin", or: "On da noggin".
It is ont noggin
@@Babar-or8cl That's how it would be pronounced in France. Michigan makes up their own pronunciations.
Not only can I pronounce all of these, I've been to all of them
If you were a kid during the sesquicentennial, you had these cities drilled into your mind.
Kitchitikipi made me giggle 😂😂 also surprised they didn’t mention Leelanau.
As a Michigander, I’m so proud of our confusing cities 😂
There are so many more. Try these:
Ewen
Kaleva
L'Anse
Lake Fanny Hooe ("Fanny Who?"¹)
Liminga
Nisula
Omena
Oneco
Onekama
Palo
Paavola
Pori
Tahquamenon (Falls)
Toivola
Traunik
Trenary
―
(¹Legend has it that Fanny Hooe (for whom the lake was named) was the sister-in-law of a young officer assigned to nearby Ft. Wilkins. She arrived at the Fort with the Captain William Alburtis family in 1846. Stories of her disappearance vary, either insisting she was picking berries outside the Fort and was either lost in the nearby forest, killed and eaten by a bear who resented her intrusion on his berry patch, or she was abducted by an Indian in retaliation for white man's intrusion on former tribal lands. She was never found, so no one knows.)
Topinabee
Cheboygan
Petoskey
I've heard them all slaughtered beside the norms that most know in these parts.
Did you just put a goddamn footnote in a TH-cam comment?
Here are a few more, did we miss these?
Copemish, a village in Cleon township, Manistee County.
Kaleva, a village in Manistee County.
Macatawa, an unincorporated community in Laketown township, Allegan County (also Lake Macatawa).
Holy crap. I'm from Boston, and I thought Massachusetts was bad.
Hey, I live in Massachusetts, too!
Yup, New Englanders always think they have the rest of the country beat when it comes to crazy pronunciations, because they've butchered so many British names. Then they come to the northern midwest and are confronted by all the Native American/French hybrid words we've butchered, and realize they actually have it pretty easy in NE!
as a Yooper I knew how to pronounce all those places, thumbs up if you know what a Yooper is or are one as well.
I was born and raised in Ann Arbor, but then I moved to the south almost 8 years ago, when I was 11. I knew a couple, but the rest of the cities I had never heard of before. Maybe because I lived in southeastern Michigan and I never went that far up north! I feel ashamed!
And they didn't bring up Kalamazoo. Okay it's not that hard to say but I'm surprised.
66flamer kalamazoo is not hard to pronounce for me
66flamer o also shocked Kalamazoo, Oshtemo, ostego and Saugatuck
I wanna see people pronounce Vergennes and Lowell. I've seen some people pronounce Vergennes as Virgins including Siri. Google maps pronounces it as "Ver-gen-niss". Another GPS pronounces is at "Verdegens".
Charlevoix was one I was waiting for.
@@Arlothed1noWell, GPS does lots and lots of goofy things. As an Uber/Lyft driver in Ann Arbor I've heard a few good ones. My favorite is a street called Traverwood (TRAY-ver-wood) which the GPS pronounces "tra-VER-wood".
Why isn't Gratiot on this list?(road name in Detroit)
They could probably do a whole video on road names haha
Detroit north to Port Huron named after the fort commander.
*swigs Diet Coke*
rwdplz1 Pop
Faygo: Creme Soda, Orange, Redpop, Rock N' Rye, Root Beer …
Vernors: Ginger Ale (up yer nose and make ya sneeze!)
He's like "you're on your own, buddy." LOL
Bois Blanc Island (commonly referred to as Boblo) is actually a Canadian island in the Detroit River.
Actually in the Straights of Mackinac
Depends on what you consider to be the correct pronunciation. How the origin language of the name pronounces it or how the locals pronounce it. For example, next to Dowagiac (or dog patch for local slang) is a town called Eau Claire, French for clear water. Should be pronounced O Clare, unless you’re from Eau Claire, then it’s Aw Clare.
Oh Clare is in Wisconsinj, Aw Clare is in Michigan, and Clearwater is in Florida.
What about Wyandotte? I was born and raised there, great city full of love.... and a lot of Pollocks🥰
I feel like Charlevoix should be on this list.
XxMissWickedXx Me too!
People keep pronouncing it wrong. It should end in "vwah". People who don't have any grasp in the French language say "Voi". I cringe every time.
@@adrianelias2365 but that's just how it's been said for so long, its stayed that way
XxMissWickedXx oh yeah for sure
Cool / a lot's of fun.
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
"D&M": Not to hijack, but that brings to mind memories (ca. late 1940s/early 1950s) of the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic (DSS&A), a.k.a. "Dust, Sand, Soot & Ashes" (From the steam locomotive era.) or "Damn Slow Service & Abuse" (Thinking of that interminable hour or more spent banging and crashing in the Trout Lake rail yard disassembling and reassembling the westbound passenger train, just a mere ≈ 30 miles after crossing the straits on one of the railroad ferries!)
@@frn512 Hi FRN - Hi from Michigan, thanks for sharing your story. Cool 😎
Aaah How aboot one of deem Pasties !
I think ALL states have their "hard to pronounce" towns. I live in Southwest Louisiana, so I know Louisiana has theirs and more weird words, too.
lol this video is a LOT of fun!!!
Wtf I thought this was a John Kerfoot video... well played PM, well played.
There is one missing Cadieux
0:53 Me when I try to pronounce anything
Some of these dudes aren’t even trying that you’d think they just want to be a legend 😂
Me being a Michigander myself, and a really good reader, I know how to pronounce every single one of those city's 😂
Yet you still don't know how to spell "cities." 😏
They better have Kitchitikippy on here.
I KNOW THAT GITL AT 0:35 SHES A SUB FOR MY SCHOOL
I'm from Michigan (and have lived here for all 30+ years of my life). Never /thought/ about how some of these were pronounced. even I'm learnin'.
But I can spell Tittabawassee and Shaiwassee in my sleep 😂...
Ocqueoc is pronounced “ock-E-ock”, I learned that being from not too far from that
Rally? Because it's spelled Shiawassee.
I know how they're spelled, I just can't type!
Kitch-iti-Kipi is beautiful
I LIVE IN YPSILANTI
SAME BRO
I live in ypsi i love ypsi
I lived in Ann Arbor, but now I live down south, which sucks!
Ypsi sucks.
YPSI
Where’s the Tahquamenon or however you spell it
In the northeastern section of the U.P. West of the Soo.
@@Thousandaire-n7o yeah I know where it is lol, my cabin is on the river, I was wondering where it was in the video, I can’t even type it correctly lol but I can say it
When I was younger I thought my city (Belleville) was hard to say...
I lived 15 minutes away from Belleville and I knew how to say it... I'm not trying to throw any shame! JS.
I didn't realize until I moved out of state that we all pronounce it Bell-vell instead of the way it *should* be pronounced. Damn Michigan accent...
Need to add Pompeii to the list.
No! It needs Hamtramck!
Ben Hatto agree
They need to do streets like Gratiot!
@@windermere2330and Livernois, Lahser, Dequindre and Schoenherr.
What about novi?
I found this to be such a valuable and educational video. Now I know the correct pronunciation of those place names. Not.
I’m from mighgan and I even got some wrong
Same haha
Even I can’t pronounce some of these places from my home state
Same haha
1:45 the girl 2nd from right is so serious like she's on a game show
Well, that was totally worthless, in that you didn't tell us how to pronounce them correctly. Thanks a bunch!
Mackinac - MAC in awe
Ypsilanti - IP sil anni
Charlotte - CHAR lot
Bois Blanc - Boy Blank ("a" from "blah"; girl in green shirt got it right, eventually)
Dowagiac - Doe WAH jak
Onondaga - Ah non DA guh
Ocqueoc - Ah KEY Ock
Ontonagon - On TOE na gon
Bete Grise - Beh DE gree (rhymes with pedigree)
Kitch-iti-kipi - Kitch EH-teh ki-PEE
@@christophertstone Bois Blanc is pronounced bä blō
Well, since you can't read, it's in the Show More section. Duh!
@@christophertstone thank you!
@@christophertstone LOL most of these are wrong
I haven’t heard of most of these places
One of those people is a guest teacher at my school all the time......
A lot of our cities are American Indian names or French names.
These places aren't to pronounce unless you haven't been to Michigan/ weren't born there
Never been but im ojibwe lol so it was easy
Hah! She must be from around here if she said Ypsi
MICHIGAN GO BLUE LETSSS GOO MICHIGAN IS THE BEST STATE WE HAVE SNOW ALOT OF IT SNOW RAIN WIND ALL OF IT
bete grise= brian griese lol
Only thing pure about Michigan is the roadsalt
commandeer. St. Clair.
"I just know how to read." (2:01)
Woohoo my home 40, Ocqueoc.
Spartan's nailed it!!! Wolverine's...well, they were just being Wolverines. GO GREEN!
Dowagiac is pronounced duh-wah-jack
Ah yes, the Michigan accent at it's finest. 😆
Dowagiac. My home town. Doe Wah Jack
What's up Chloe E!
I LIVE IN CHARLOTTE SO DAMN
I live in Dowagiac
Amber Keene I use too
Run, its one of dose tough Negaunee chicks😂
Ispeming Ontanagon
Crystal falls no that was an easy one
Houghton Escanaba
Doe wa jack it’s literally a sign in the town
How about traverse city
Bete Grise??? Surely you meant Baie De Gres.
Ocqueoc: “oh-kwee-ock”? That’s what I’d guess the pronunciation is.
Close! Ock-ee-ock.
The harder, the names get to pronounce the more like Wisconsin they sound
“Bryan Greasy”.
And happily, I live only about a 10-minute Drive from climax. Yes I take showers regularly so it's okay.
Now, correctly pronounce "Lake Orion".
Pah-Knee-Ac
bete grise is gray beast 😂
Michigan - my chi gan
It is😀😀😀😀😀
You can pronounce mackinac sounding with the c because thats the island. Mackinaw is the city
Nope. Never.
But both Mackinaw and Mackinac are pronounced “Mackinaw”!
And i thpught Muskegon was hard.
C'mon what are the correct pronunciations?
Please show the answers before finishing it up.
Ossineke
you know the pretty girl in blue shirt can scream out in a Boston accent OH YAH!
I AM FROM THE MITTEN STATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
YEAH CHARLOTTE IS WHERE I LIVE HAHAHHAHDBWMXUAKOFYAKQMFG
“Kitchit. Kitchit. 👀 { “
This hurts me
Took the land from us, erased our language and identity... the least you could do is get the pronunciation correct.
How about Port Urine 😂
😆😆
Whitmer is pronounced "moron"
What about Manistique?