How to properly say Massachusetts town names (with pictures)

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2024

ความคิดเห็น • 407

  • @esurette
    @esurette 11 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The more I think about it, the more I love about living in MA!

    • @btm380
      @btm380 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Everything is illegal in Massachusetts.

    • @GamblinDan
      @GamblinDan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@btm380 Sept weed

    • @Manueltion15
      @Manueltion15 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The more I think about it, the more I hate about living in MA!

  • @vbry1599
    @vbry1599 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I basically live in Stoneham (I live right on the Stoneham/Wakefield line so I do technically live in Wakefield despite not being able to get to my house without going into Stoneham and having Stoneham Water and Power) and when I was little I literally thought that Stone-m and Stone-ham were two different places! I knew how to say Stoneham but when ever I saw it on a sign I would say “Stone-ham” until one day I drove by the “Welcome to Stoneham” sign and did not read it Stone-ham for some reason (and said it like I knew how it was said) and suddenly I had an epfinany and realized that Stone-m and Stone-ham were the same place and I still wonder to this day why I some how did not realize that sooner or think it was weird that two towns (supposedly) right next to each other sounded so similarly! (I was like Seven when I finally figured it out!) 😂

  • @Rowdy4324
    @Rowdy4324  11 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Many thanks everyone for watching. Don't know how this got so popular after sitting around for months, but it's a nice feeling. Hoping to get a sequel up by the end of the month but no promises.

    • @umlcoms3007
      @umlcoms3007 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My suggestion: Groton. Grow-ton (not) and Grawtn (the one syllable thing).

    • @CashCatMoney
      @CashCatMoney 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Uml Coms I dunno about you, but I saw Grawtn and I'm from Mass

    • @IsaacPato
      @IsaacPato 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Should add Concord too. Too many people think it's pronounced like the airplane.

    • @ryanholland7368
      @ryanholland7368 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You dont know shit.no Worcester???plus you pronounce everthing.

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryanholland7368 thank you for your comment.

  • @ssimpalaguy1
    @ssimpalaguy1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    YOU MISSED LEICESTER!!! pronounced "Lester"'

  • @gakabler
    @gakabler 11 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Contrary to what the narrator of this video states there IS a 'Ham in Massachusetts, and that would be FRAMINGHAM, a.k.a. "THE Ham"!

    • @pinkymcflowers4132
      @pinkymcflowers4132 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Isn't it more "Framing-um"?

    • @gakabler
      @gakabler 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not in all the years I ever lived there!

    • @AppleSlicesUnite
      @AppleSlicesUnite 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pinky McFlowers no lol? ham is heard

    • @Flars-rd5ob
      @Flars-rd5ob 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you were in England (whence the name), it would be Framing-um.

    • @kylemcfarland4764
      @kylemcfarland4764 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Heyyy I live there

  • @michaelyoung8140
    @michaelyoung8140 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Rowdy - Gloucester boy, been on the West Coast for 35 years. Thanks for starting my day with a HUGE laugh!!

  • @skottemtp
    @skottemtp 11 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Actually, this isn't completely accurate. People FROM Raynham will tell you it's Rain Ham, Worcester is Wista, Gloucester is Glosta and Medford is Medfa. That's how we really say it in Massachusetts.

    • @scootrpy1
      @scootrpy1 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      I so totally agree !!! This guys a jackass. He pronounces a wicked lot of R's where we don't use them.

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      scootrpy1
      I will not apologize for not sounding like the fellas from Good Will Hunting or the guys who call into EEI to scream about the Sox year round. If it so offends you then you can go watch any of the other billions of hours on content on TH-cam.

    • @ladyofallthingspotterrelat1913
      @ladyofallthingspotterrelat1913 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No he pronounced them right, it just depends where you live in Massachusetts. Not everyone in Mass has the same accent. I live in Mass and that's how I pronounce them, but if you go to Boston area that's how they say it. That's why the call it a Boston accent.

    • @skottemtp
      @skottemtp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nobody said they were how someone with a "Boston accent" would pronounce them. This is how people in those ACTUAL FREAKING TOWNS pronounce them. You're gonna tell me that someone who grew up in Worcester has a Boston accent and can't pronounce his own city name because YOU don't say it that way? 😂

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes

  • @Flyjaxx
    @Flyjaxx 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this video! Marlborough is a big one people all the time say ma-R-lborrow when we pronounce it mahbro

  • @feb349
    @feb349 11 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Quincy? Come on! It's Kwin-Zee!

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool. Yeah.

    • @darkwitch8648
      @darkwitch8648 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      True

    • @Laudanum-gq3bl
      @Laudanum-gq3bl 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Quincy is pronounced the same as the term for a peritonsillar abscess. 😂

    • @johnortiz1964
      @johnortiz1964 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As it says on the wall of the 99 restaurant in Quincy

  • @thesteveus
    @thesteveus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    An Aussie here who got most of these right, based on the pronunciation of the English towns and cities, a couple of them were tricky though, I actually though Worcester was pronounced Warchester despite the fact I know that would be incorrect. Oh, and Aussie is pronounced "Ozzy" Cheers!!

  • @jjmblue7
    @jjmblue7 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I grew up in the Bridgewater-Raynham school district. Everyone I know who actually grew up in or currently lives in Raynham pronounces it "Rain-ham". It's "Rain-ham".

    • @Indawoodsvt
      @Indawoodsvt 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it depends on where in Mass you're from. My grandparents are from inner Boston and they always pronounce Raynham like "Rain-um"

    • @kdog2757
      @kdog2757 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If you live in Raynham you said rain ham but if you live in another town you say rain um.

    • @cisium1184
      @cisium1184 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The old Raynham Park radio ads pronounced it rainum.

  • @MrRedneckman100
    @MrRedneckman100 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    How to pronounce Massachusetts town names with a Boston accent
    1 bilricah
    2 chicahpee
    3 glostah
    4. Haavril
    5 leminstah
    6 menthuen
    7 peebudy
    8 reeding
    9 shitsuiate
    10 stellahm
    11 whenuhm
    12 woostah
    13 rahveah
    13 mahblehead
    14 fawl rivah

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thanx

    • @wk3004
      @wk3004 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Swaumpskit

    • @puttingwarheadsonforeheads9872
      @puttingwarheadsonforeheads9872 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Methuen is pronounced mahtuin
      Methuen is also called Lawrence with trees
      Haavril is called Lawrence with hills

    • @maxo7150
      @maxo7150 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      you got Reading wrong. instead of "reeding" it should be "reding"

  • @rachelcoakley2954
    @rachelcoakley2954 11 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    "There is no HAM in the Commonwealth" is a false quote! You forgot about FramingHAM! The "ham" is pronounced phonetically with that one. :) (P.S. I'm from Massachusetts and I know what I'm talking about.)

    • @NorthAtlanticCity
      @NorthAtlanticCity 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I feel like in Waltham its more of a TH sound, like Walth-am, not Walt-ham. Or is it Walth-ham.

    • @marlabaisley8941
      @marlabaisley8941 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      that's why Framingham is called the "ham"

    • @singlesideman
      @singlesideman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tyler Wesson definitely Wall-tham.

    • @DavesRange
      @DavesRange 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      And Oakham

    • @sandsoftime1954
      @sandsoftime1954 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wenham

  • @Giuvannuzzeddu
    @Giuvannuzzeddu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Right on, 100%. I was born and raised in METHUEN, and agree with all your recommendations. And yes, Methuen begins with METH, but the stress is on the THU: meh-THU-en, and not METH-u-en.
    And yes, there are many more:
    Leominster (LEM-inster)
    Quincy (QUIN-zy not QUIN-see)
    Waltham (WALL-tham, not WALL-th'm)
    Rowley (ROW rhymes with HOW, not with GO)
    Salisbury (SAUL's berry, not SAL-lis-berry)
    Athol (A-thawl, A as in apple, not A as in ape)
    Chelmsford (CHE(L)Mz-f'd -- natives tend to drop the L)
    Wenham (WENN-em, no ham)
    Wilbraham (WILL-bra-ham, YES ham)

    • @wk3004
      @wk3004 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for bringing up Rowley for me. Everybody forgets about our little town! Even some of the conductors on the T pronounce it row as in go in their ignorance. And whenever I introduce myself, even people from a couple towns over will think I’m saying Raleigh, like in North Carolina. Can’t catch a break here in the mahshes!

  • @LarryLansdown
    @LarryLansdown 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    One thing....there are places in MA that pronounce the "Ham"....like Waltham.

    • @teenagerinsac
      @teenagerinsac 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +LarryLansdown Actually, they don't- they say Walth-um :)

    • @LarryLansdown
      @LarryLansdown 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've never heard anyone call it Walth-um. I lived there for 1 year.

    • @zowiezooblezilla
      @zowiezooblezilla 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +LarryLansdown You will

    • @cyanglaciertooth9932
      @cyanglaciertooth9932 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep, it's pronounced "Wall-tham" like it rhymes with "Sam". BTW, you live in Waltham? My condolences! :P

    • @AppleSlicesUnite
      @AppleSlicesUnite 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cyan Glaciertooth lol

  • @drewish927
    @drewish927 11 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    how about Chelmsford? no "L" "O" or "R" here! Chemsfid.

  • @BeckettSong
    @BeckettSong 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Townships are similarly designed to the New England town in that both are civil divisions of the larger county. Even though there are no county governments in all three southern New England states they still exist as geographic entities not political ones. Townships in New Jersey(outside the region of New England) are almost like cities because they are led by a mayor and a "Township Council".

  • @jasonmelo9379
    @jasonmelo9379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I lived in Haverhill for quite a long time. From Springfield

  • @madtho
    @madtho 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    WareHAM and EastHAM, but yeah, mostly right.
    My favorite part is that EastHAM and Chatham (Chat’m) are one town apart.

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. Thanks.

  • @nik_5992
    @nik_5992 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Born in WUH-STA and raised in Web-sta Mass!!

  • @srussia2281
    @srussia2281 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT!! haha thanks for making this! haha! 2 yrs in Boston is ENOUGH for me….moving...

  • @williamleslie4939
    @williamleslie4939 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where was Quincy? Great video!

  • @RightAway87
    @RightAway87 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Live near the line of Haverhill and N.Andover. I'll never forget bringing a girl from San Diego up here and having her try and pronounce these names haha.

  • @serplunk7146
    @serplunk7146 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Methuen mention!

  • @GRNKRBY
    @GRNKRBY 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    NOS4A2's "Have-Er-Hill" pronunciation in the audiobook brought me here. xC

  • @Davanthall
    @Davanthall 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey, Duck boats are fun. I’m a native Bostonian and I go on duck tours....I mean you know....about once or twice per decade.....

  • @rawesomeguyrawesome7462
    @rawesomeguyrawesome7462 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I lived in Massachusetts (Worcester (Whoo stir)) since I knew how to talk. Boston slang is very simple. The "barrel" is a trash can because in Boston, the trash cans look like barrels. Most of it is inspired by Irish Englandish town names. In my opinion, all Spanish names are at least 10x harder to pronounce. I actually live in Shrewsbury (Shoes Berry) and If you stay here for a while, everything makes sense.

    • @rawesomeguyrawesome7462
      @rawesomeguyrawesome7462 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please don't reply to this comment.

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ok, I won't reply to this comment.

    • @TrrsnSmrg
      @TrrsnSmrg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The reverse psychology was just too tempting.🎉

  • @KenBadertscher
    @KenBadertscher 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I approve this message.

  • @bobkiley2596
    @bobkiley2596 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I went to school in Billerica - Shawsheen Valley Tech - and they actually had us learn the correct pronunciation of "Billerica" turning our freshmen orientation! Of course we were from Bedford (no OR)...

  • @melissa90652
    @melissa90652 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    what about about Tewksbury?

  • @m_haz
    @m_haz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    as a resident of woburn, it's "woo-burn" like woooohoooo!!! and i like to make an emphasis on the rn

  • @PianoDisneygal10
    @PianoDisneygal10 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I didn't even know how to pronounce some of these and I have lived in Massachusetts all my life.
    yes we exist down here in Southeastern Massachusetts (Fall River, Seekonk, Dartmouth etc).

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      those towns are easy to say

    • @wk3004
      @wk3004 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Acushnet, Rehobeth, and Mattapoisett can be tough to figure out at first sight

  • @johnortiz1964
    @johnortiz1964 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ah... the names we inherited from Merry Old England. My Town Weymouth celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2022.

  • @arthurjackson3287
    @arthurjackson3287 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to live in “Summahvull”

  • @theNamelessDave
    @theNamelessDave 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've only heard those two as "Where-um" and "Ashburnum".
    -Grew up next to Lemminsta and goes to school on the border of Newtin and Bawstin

  • @Davanthall
    @Davanthall 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I guess the last 28 years I spent growing up in Massachusetts was all just an incorrect dream...
    I hate when people says “this is how people from Massachusetts say it”, because 99% of the time, no, that’s not how people from “Massachusetts” say it, that’s how people from SOUTHIE say it. And this video is no exception. Granted people from Southie think that the entire state of Massachusetts and Southie are one in the same, because people from Southie think they’re the center of the universe, but still....

  • @alysiumkiss
    @alysiumkiss 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Grest job. Liked this a lot.

  • @one_punch_puritan4696
    @one_punch_puritan4696 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My student advisor thought I said PB, Massachusetts, when in actuality I said Peabody.

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  11 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's hard living in Tanner Town.

    • @Xxaire31
      @Xxaire31 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can say enough how much I hate the way folks from Mass pronounce “Peabody”

    • @wk3004
      @wk3004 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My friend was at work and got a call from some insurance people down in Atlanta. Woman on the phone was pronouncing it pea-bod-y in a thick southern accent. Pretty sure she even put the accent on the bod. My friend had absolutely no idea what she was saying for a solid three minutes

  • @philhoa666
    @philhoa666 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hahaha it's really funny for a foreigner like me. And I live in Boston, and more than once I've had problems with the pronunciation of those town names.

  • @Kegga_6
    @Kegga_6 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How did Stoneham make the list and mefid didn't (actual spelling Medford)

  • @JBZROZEable
    @JBZROZEable 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Might want to add Tewksbury ;)

  • @shadowbrat4
    @shadowbrat4 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's interesting that most of the towns are in Essex County. There is one I can think of that you missed though ... what about Leicester?

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Leicester will be in the sequel. That was the first one I wrote down.

    • @Marilovelace
      @Marilovelace 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rowdy4324 you do realize That some town even one here in thei video does prounonce the ham dislike

  • @drewanderson8197
    @drewanderson8197 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why does everyone leave out Leicester?

    • @floydian131
      @floydian131 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Drew Anderson cuz Leicester sucks

  • @jodyhart1205
    @jodyhart1205 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The "h" is silent in Amherst. But it is fully pronounced in Wareham. The "l" is silent in Holyoke as well. It is pronounced Ho-yoke.

    • @CashCatMoney
      @CashCatMoney 11 ปีที่แล้ว

      In Western Mass the "l" is pronounced in Holyoke.

    • @pinkymcflowers4132
      @pinkymcflowers4132 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tiffany Tan
      Agree. It's Hol-yoke, not Ho-yoke. Although, with the way Holyoke is going, Ho-yoke might not be a bad description....

    • @nadinenc3097
      @nadinenc3097 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We pronounced it Ware-em

    • @jodyhart1205
      @jodyhart1205 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nadinenc3097 I have a friend from East Wareham and she is adamant that the "h" is pronounced. But that was forty years ago.

    • @jodyhart1205
      @jodyhart1205 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CashCatMoney I live here in Springfield (011108) and have been told for the last 30 years the "l" is silent. I guess you can say they want to get the "L" out of Holyoke.

  • @sevresblue
    @sevresblue 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    GREAT - and I would stress that "Hingham" is "Hingum", not "Hing Ham", and Fall River definitely has no 'r' on the end "Fawriva", and Taunton - well, ,let's get all Indian on you and pronounce it correctly "Tah'n" (there being that 'click' where the apostrophe is). Oh! Assonet! (I once had a visitor ask where "Ass-o-net" was. When we picked ourselves up off the floor we realized where he meant. For your next video!~

  • @jlewis162
    @jlewis162 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What about Framingham? We say ham there.

  • @chrisb6484
    @chrisb6484 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know Reading and Gloucester cause I'm from Philly and them towns are here too.

  • @brendanhennessey8884
    @brendanhennessey8884 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The only thing I would say is that there actually are "-ham"'s in MA that are pronounced like ham (Eastham). -ham and -tham towns are all messed up...see:
    wal-THAM
    east-HAM
    WREN-tham
    CHAT-ham
    we just can't make up our minds.

    • @teenagerinsac
      @teenagerinsac 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Brendan Hennessey Most towns with ham at the end DO say um, not HAM. The older and longer residents especially do.

    • @781Florist
      @781Florist 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@teenagerinsac As a spritely young 68 year old from WAL-tham, I can tell you that everybody who lives here says WAL-tham unless they just came from out of the area an hour ago. Then they quickly learn that it it is WAL-tham MA USA as opposed to Wal-thum in England.

  • @BlitherVids
    @BlitherVids 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nailed it. I was looking for the whole diatribe about Concord though and didn't get one. :(

  • @ZBisson
    @ZBisson ปีที่แล้ว

    Some town names that end in ham pronounce the ham. Like Petersham, Tyringham, and Framingham.

  • @pewpewpew3212
    @pewpewpew3212 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know I'm uh... about 5 years late but what's the song laying at the end? Sounds very familiar

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean the one credited in big block type at the end of the video?

  • @shanemagalhaes93
    @shanemagalhaes93 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All these people trying to say they know about Massachusetts though. Worcester is woosta and shrewsbury is pronounced shrewsbury. We don't neglect r's or ah's unless they're alone or at the end of a word

    • @Flars-rd5ob
      @Flars-rd5ob 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Born and raised in Wista. Relatives in Shrews-bree. ;-)

    • @singlesideman
      @singlesideman 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      xicota it is definitely Wista.

  • @cynthiahudson6402
    @cynthiahudson6402 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    what is so hard with Billerica ( and for us folks that grew up there its bricca to us) look at the word and pronounce it folks BILL ER ICA

  • @JordanRagus
    @JordanRagus 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Psh, what, no mention of Gahdna-hey? Where my Gardner at?

  • @KermitWithAShotgun
    @KermitWithAShotgun 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Framingham has a ham... No one pronounces it Framingum. Don't make blanket statements unless you're 100% certain it's accurate. Otherwise I enjoyed the video.

    • @alisongold9448
      @alisongold9448 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you live near Framingham? I do.

    • @lighthowski
      @lighthowski 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Add Bellingham

  • @Jxmu.
    @Jxmu. หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a new englander I have never once thought it was war chester, its just always been WUSTA to me.

  • @americantaxpayer4551
    @americantaxpayer4551 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Strange thing. People know Worcestershire sauce-(Woostashire) but few can pronounce the city name, Worcester (Woosta)

  • @DavidHonneus
    @DavidHonneus หลายเดือนก่อน

    What aboutCochituate? And there's always Revere (raviah)

  • @goodwavedata
    @goodwavedata 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video...for hams what about wareham and ashburnham?

  • @jessicawilliams5485
    @jessicawilliams5485 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Um actually in Raynham you do pronounce the ham

  • @m.mccolgan2250
    @m.mccolgan2250 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What about Amherst?

  • @Geekyglamor123
    @Geekyglamor123 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Woburn is pronounced Woo-burn

    • @rogerdean5313
      @rogerdean5313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Funny I’ve always pronounced it Woo-bin

    • @MsSmitty9
      @MsSmitty9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think Rick Flair had Something to do with it ! Wooooo Burn ! 😂

  • @Gweeper64
    @Gweeper64 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Summa-vul
    Meh-fuh

    • @wk3004
      @wk3004 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Meh-fuh will always be the best pronunciation

  • @jph0917
    @jph0917 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Billerica, named for Billericay, Essex, England.
    Anglican pronunciation Bill-er-rick-ah. Remember the rules of the English Language. Words with ar; er; ir; or & ur in them are pronounced like the letter R.
    Billerica was a hot bed of anti British sediment during the revolution, so we changed the pronunciation from Bill-er-rick-ah to Bill-rick-ah

  • @toasterstrudel189
    @toasterstrudel189 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i fucking love Massachusetts

  • @EnergyChasms
    @EnergyChasms 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Home sweet home!

  • @TheMadRussianSniper
    @TheMadRussianSniper 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this

  • @gr8pillock
    @gr8pillock 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Worchestuhsheere sauce is my fahkin favrit! All day guy.

  • @caseyrandall8430
    @caseyrandall8430 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Raynum? Its RaynHAM. Guess you have to live there to know that.

  • @litojonny
    @litojonny 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:05 LMFAO THAT SOUND

  • @Sabotage_Labs
    @Sabotage_Labs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gotta love Mass. Almost got my ass kicked for saying Pea-body...and I was in freaking Needham. Or...was it Dedham? I was like wicked scared!

    • @MsSmitty9
      @MsSmitty9 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      PEE BA DEE. ( Say it fast)

    • @teenagerinsac
      @teenagerinsac 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MsSmitty9 PEEBIDEEE

    • @MsSmitty9
      @MsSmitty9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Needem. Deadem.

    • @teenagerinsac
      @teenagerinsac 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MsSmitty9 Needem? They're in Dedham go get 'em :) WRox er here :)

    • @MsSmitty9
      @MsSmitty9 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@teenagerinsac I’m Medfid through and Through. 🤔

  • @eileenoliver582
    @eileenoliver582 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My home town.... Waltham.... should have made this list. It is NOT "WAL-thumb", as many who are unfamiliar with the town pronounce it.

    • @eileenoliver582
      @eileenoliver582 11 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, and I live in Gloucester now LOL!

  • @sandsoftime1954
    @sandsoftime1954 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    My all time favorite is the city of Athol. Used correctly in a sentence it's " Man ,you drive like a Athol up here".

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sands of time Ha, funny

  • @YouCanCallMeReTro
    @YouCanCallMeReTro 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One of the best psych-outs from growing up in a ham town is realizing how ridiculous your town's name sounds.

  • @MrBuffedNerd
    @MrBuffedNerd 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Haverhill (Hell Town) in da house! nice to know I have been in every city mentioned here for one reason or another.

  • @teambranches
    @teambranches 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    How 'bout Tewksbury?

  • @mariannetuohy
    @mariannetuohy 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    what about "Quinzee"???

  • @WWard-uy1le
    @WWard-uy1le 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Except Wareham. Where-Ham. There is no -um there.

    • @teenagerinsac
      @teenagerinsac 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Wendl Ward How long have you been around? We certainly DON't say Ware Ham :) 56 yr old ex Bostonian here.

    • @teenagerinsac
      @teenagerinsac 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you SURE???? :) Wicked sure???

    • @WWard-uy1le
      @WWard-uy1le 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +teenagerinsac very.

    • @teenagerinsac
      @teenagerinsac 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, you listen to some older folks who are in their 60's and up- you will hear it pronounced Ware-um :)

    • @WWard-uy1le
      @WWard-uy1le 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +teenagerinsac they all said Wareham. guess we know different old people. lol

  • @FLORIDIANMILLIONAIRE
    @FLORIDIANMILLIONAIRE 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You would be completely lost in Uk especially in scotland ireland etc they have crazy pronunciations like wheest its english like but completely different pronunciations and meanings

  • @wolfmanjim
    @wolfmanjim 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many of these pronunciations are taken directly from the British.

    • @anotherdave5107
      @anotherdave5107 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      go to the East Anglia area of England and you'll see hull, hingham, weymouth etc. They stole all the names from Ma towns!

  • @ayo8364
    @ayo8364 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I fuckin' hated everyone calling Methuen "Meth-town" back in school. Still pisses me off. xD

  • @nadinenc3097
    @nadinenc3097 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Needham was Need-em

  • @seancassidy9897
    @seancassidy9897 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    most of these are simply the English pronunciations - the phonetic butchering started long ago in Britain. Leominster is now down to two syllables in England (Lemster).

  • @sonny_njr
    @sonny_njr หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can’t believe he didn’t mention Tewksbury

  • @Rocketman88002
    @Rocketman88002 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm from Nyoo Hemsha!

  • @lolaguidera1838
    @lolaguidera1838 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What about Amherst everyone says it wrong

  • @Renegade837
    @Renegade837 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is too a "ham" in the commonwealth. Petersham. It's like Peter's Ham. Not peter sham. Nor do you "em" the ham like Stoneham. Peter's HAM. Petersham is also known as New Hampshire light. A third less flannel than your regular New Hampshire.
    Another honorable mention? Marlborough. It's Mar-bro, Bro. If you don't say it that we we know you're not from around here.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @speechless No, it's pronounced skitchewate. ;-)

    • @BlitherVids
      @BlitherVids 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@edwardmiessner6502 What are you, an Athol? :D

  • @mac8596
    @mac8596 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Woah woah woah... Chicopee? Really? Not saying no, but I never even realized..

  • @sharkfinthesharkiroo7856
    @sharkfinthesharkiroo7856 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone who has lived in Worcester my whole life, it’s pronounced Wister

  • @serge-p6t
    @serge-p6t 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Things people hate, potholes, sinkholes and Massholes.

  • @john.andrew.brighton
    @john.andrew.brighton 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Worcestershire sauce

  • @Daoistify
    @Daoistify หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m from Win-chen-don just north of Wista 😂😂😂

  • @sophieblanchard5023
    @sophieblanchard5023 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    AYEEEE SCITUATE

  • @rickifake02
    @rickifake02 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The "Ham" IS pronounced in Ashburnham!

    • @gesslar
      @gesslar 11 ปีที่แล้ว

      They also say "chowdah" so...

    • @rickifake02
      @rickifake02 11 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's just in Boston :p

    • @lindanorris2455
      @lindanorris2455 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      NOBODY. NOBODY IN MAASACHUSETTS SAYS ASHBURNHAM..THEY SAY "ASH"..WHATEVER!

    • @rickifake02
      @rickifake02 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lindanorris2455 I am from MA and one of my friends from college is from Ashburnham

  • @kmcelman
    @kmcelman 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hear people butcher Natick on a regular basis. It's Naydick, not Nah-tick. And Framingham has a distinct ham in it as well. How about Canton? Norwood? The list goes on and on...

    • @rachelcoakley2954
      @rachelcoakley2954 11 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was born in Norwood!! Aka Gnaw-wud. :D

  • @cfrench61995
    @cfrench61995 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm in mass and I love duck tours!!! 😆

  • @moroteseoinage
    @moroteseoinage 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bernardston. “Burnid-sten”

  • @mattheweppinger4809
    @mattheweppinger4809 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Haha great job. Shout out to all the Peabodians!!

  • @B-ch6uk
    @B-ch6uk หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I first moved to Stoneham, I called it Stone ham. All my neighbors told me it's pronounced Stone um. Go figure.

  • @delemma7267
    @delemma7267 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is Chelmsford? Isn’t that hard for u guys to say? Idk i live is MASSACHUSETTS so it just rolls off my tounge.

    • @Rowdy4324
      @Rowdy4324  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Elization it's near Tewksbury and Billerica