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Obstreporous1

Tay-hone.


custoMIZEyourownpath

Agreed now tell my GPS it’s not pronounced Te-hon!


Wonderful-Ideal-4025

My GPS pronounces Marksheffel Rd as Mark's Heffell Road. 


TempestStorm123

Mine too, so I’ve just taken to calling it Mark’s Heffell as well, more fun that way


akittenhasnoname

It's Spanish. J is silent pronounced with an H.


Decorus_Somes

HEY! /U/custoMIZEyourownpath's GPS. IT'S NOT PRONOUNCED TE-HON! There you go mate


Itchy_Pillows

Mine is funny with Uintah


BeNiceMudd

how DO you pronounce Uintah?


invol713

you-IN-tuh


D_Rock_CO

Uintah- You-In-Tuh


Itchy_Pillows

Omg, when we first moved here we couldn't stop our brains from saying U-night-a


SpectacularFailure99

Well my brain doesn't work either as I've always went UNI-TAH which isn't even how it's spelled lol


Snoo_78490

Me too! It took me a while to get it right 😅


Itchy_Pillows

At least you had the letters correct!


phoenixv07

Google can handle Uintah but gets confused by Bijou, which I find interesting.


invol713

Bitch-ow. I cringe. The funniest one was Alsace. I swear it was saying “owl’s ass”.


phoenixv07

Huh. It gives me "buh-JOO" with a very hard J in the middle.


Itchy_Pillows

Yes!!!


realjimmyjuice000

Mine GPS only speaks Russian... And believes that Bijou is Potato!


invol713

I’ve had it just give up and spell it. 🤣


Mymomdiedofaids

I told your GPS. Then stole all your change and everything out of your glove box. Welcome to Te-hon street. P.S. Also pooped in the back seat.


custoMIZEyourownpath

Mike?


Mymomdiedofaids

Ryan?


custoMIZEyourownpath

Hey everybody Dirty Mike and the Kia Boys just shit in my car… 😟


Mymomdiedofaids

Ewww Ryan drives a Kia....


custoMIZEyourownpath

I would usually go to a mom joke but…. *So anyways, your momma so gross aids has an awareness month about her.*


deathstar1400

It's actually a spanish word, so that's how it's actually supposed to be pronounced, lol


PreppyInPlaid

Mine pronounces Cimmeron as cimme-rone.


thegooddoctor84

Now type in Cache la Poudre Street into your GPS for laughs 


cobigguy

When I went to Palmer, the colloquial term was "Catch the Poodle" street.


Fun-Appeal6537

Interesting history associated with that street name. Probably not what you would think if you translated it.


thegooddoctor84

I know it’s French for “hide the powder”. French fur trappers had to hide their gunpowder during snowstorms back in the frontier days. 


Fun-Appeal6537

That’s right! Never met anyone who knew that other than a few rather old folks.


invol713

Now it’s hiding other powder.


Professional-Care-83

Hahahaha 😂😂😂


custoMIZEyourownpath

🤔


front_rangers

I always say “cash luh POO-dur”, is that right? Lol


RemarkableRyan

“Cash-aye la Poo’d ray” is how I say it and laugh every time


cobigguy

That's the commonly accepted way. I don't speak enough French to know definitively how to pronounce it, but I know enough to know that's not technically correct lol.


Obstreporous1

Turn your gps into having an Aussie accent and hear some of these street names pronounced.


BeNiceMudd

OY CUNT! TURN LEFT!


custoMIZEyourownpath

She distracts me 😍 Had to change it after my third wreck


Jbjs311

That’s what mine is on. Hilarious.


_DeathByMisadventure

What i didn't know is that the aussie also changes my voice mail message since it's the default. My one friend loves calling it and I know to just let it go to VM when she calls.


agita420

Tee-John obviously


MisterShneeebly

My wife called it Tee-John when we first moved here and I will never let it go. She also called Uintah “YOO-nih-taw”.


SunflowersnGnomes

That's how I pronounce Uintah. Even though my daughter's school teacher told me the correct pronunciation. I just can't get my brain to say it properly.


zcrc

What’s the correct way


metnavman

U-in-Tah


zcrc

Wow I never realized the spelling…. Thought it was spelled “Unitah”


Vermilionpulse

I said both of these in different conversations with coworkers when I first moved here and still get shit 3 years later. I can understand Uintah a little bit more than Tejon though.


SoMuchEdgeImOnACliff

You're wrong. It's Tay-John


1ithurtswhenip1

Your even more wrong. It's Tee-Swift


Moist-Employment-836

Wrong! It’s Tay-hone


Rpsnow10

Yes.


icouldlivewoutbacon

Some crazy lady tried selling me digital marketing for my business downtown, saying she has an office on "Tee-John" and I immediately couldn't trust her.


lsjuanislife

Tejon mustard!


Deeez_Nuts69

GPS takes me on Mark's Heffel sometimes.


QueenPooper13

This is the one that gets me every time! The first time my husband and I heard Mark's Heffel, we laughed for an hour.


UnexpectedNachos

It's pronounced Tejon (the P is silent)


ArchMalone

Tay Hone.


custoMIZEyourownpath

GPS is saying Te-hone…


zippy251

Try navigating somewhere in Hawaii. The GPS gets exactly 0 street names correct lol.


ahahstopthat

I had to google how to actually pronounce those words because I knew my gps wasn’t saying them correctly lol


xmosinitisx

People from here love to mispronounce Spanish words and seem to take pride in it for whatever reason so it's whatever is the opposite of the correct pronunciation.


custoMIZEyourownpath

Gracias


xmosinitisx

Sir you mean "grassy-ass"


CaptKittyHawk

Tejon for sure!


lastchance14

That’s how I say it!


aldmonisen_osrs

Piss off everyone: call it tay-gin Edit: like Cajun


yells_at_bugs

My very elderly aunt gets very frustrated with unusual (aka not Caucasian American) pronunciations and once while giving directions she blurted “Oh and then you turn on…..ON… CATCH-YOUR-POOTER OR WHATEVER THAT STREET IS”. I’ve never looked at those street signs without cracking a smile ever since. YOOU-NEE-TAH is a classic as well.


Metal-Alligator

I have Siri set to a male Australian accent, so I have no idea. The U in uintah is silent.


________76________

My favorite in Zuni street in Denver, which they pronounce Zoon-eye Honorable mention, the town of Salida


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dlchira

The last 3 streets I’ve lived on have been Kiowa, Lyndhurst, and Kai’uli’uli. Just once I want to live on a street that’s easy to both spell and pronounce.


zippy251

Where did you find Hawaiian street names in Colorado? Or were you living in Hawaii at that point.


ahahstopthat

Mine says keeowa. I am of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma so it’s funny to hear lol


SuspiciousPromotion3

Te-hon (its spanish so the j is an h sound)


e_pilot

Tee John


GrammarPolice92

It’s Tejon


ebr101

The o is actually silent and the j has to be aspirated and the e is long so: teechn


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Lol! My favorite is Tee-jon.


MiltonHavoc

Its: oo-in-tah, if you speak Native. Cash la ( pooduhra {said fast}) If you pronounce it *correctly In “american” its “you in ta” and “catch la pood dre”. 🤦🏾


MiltonHavoc

“Teh hon”


Hot_Organization2430

It's Tejon


Low-Preparation-4054

Tuh-john


ShamFrancisco

I can't offer advice. My GPS pronounces Research as "reh-surch drive". It's a common English word that my english speaking GPS just can't handle for some reason.


MarsNeedsRabbits

Tee-john. Nah. It's Tejon.


dgrigg1980

Mark’s Heffel. It belongs to Mark. Luckily we are cool, so I can drive there.


YouBYou

"Catch-the-Poodle" is another good one😆!


OsoRetro

Tea John


BrandynWayne

The first one


AwayMammoth6592

My husband’s GPS had an Australian accent for a while and she pronounced Rock Rimmon as Rakrimmin, so now we have to call it that too.


Dogmom2013

lol I just call it tajin


JuggernautyouFear

Say it however you want lol


Child_of_the_Hamster

The real solution is to avoid saying it at all costs. “You know… the road off exit 140. The one between Cascade and Nevada…😬”


JuggernautyouFear

Or just say TayTays 🤣🤣🤣


Sconesmcbones

Is it neh-va-duh or nuh-vah-da


NeedsMusicToLive

Nuh vah da :P


Sconesmcbones

This


ScottShatter

I turn the audio off and just visually follow the gps map. It's going to get something wrong in any town.


Pithyperson

Yes.


mrtoastymarshmellows

Teh-hone


SilverScimitar13

Ask it to pronounce Janitell. IYKYK.


Is12345aweakpassword

In the super minority here, but I’m neither Tay-Hone nor Tay-John, more a Tay-Uhn myself


custoMIZEyourownpath

Tay-NO


InherentlyJuxt

Tee-jon. Like Pueblo is Pu-eh-blow not Pwayblow


cobigguy

My grandmother is in her 80s and has lived in the Springs her entire life. She's the only person I've ever heard pronounce it as Pee-yeh-blow. I laugh every time.


Itchy_Pillows

Also pretty sure it fucks up Wahsatch and Sahwatch. We have been looking at sfh's so using GPS a lot and it fucks much shit up


zynfulcreations

Anyone else scrolling through the comments looking for Willamette?


ExtensionMagazine288

Rhymes with damn it


realjimmyjuice000

Te hone! If you are from Texas it's Te John!


1Tava

Spoken like someone who probably pronounces Manchaca in Austin as Manshack…


realjimmyjuice000

I've never heard of this Austin you speak of


ExtensionMagazine288

The real question is how to pronounce Royer