One of the things I thought very weird when I first moved to LA was that locals seem to pronounce their neighborhood names incorrectly. How so? Well, as you might already know, many of Los Angeles’ neighborhoods are named by Spanish settlers which means that those neighborhood names should be as close to the Spanish [...]
Not sure why this isn’t a readable list, but I guess a video allows you to show moving examples. I can’t say that I knew any of these beforehand.
I’ve got one out of the four names right! McDonald’s apparently has official names for each of the 4 shapes of Chicken McNuggets…
LOL, now you know how to pronounce all of those weird agency names.
Just so you all know, you’re saying all the names you know wrong.[via]
People in California speak words in between freeway numbers and major street names. I can confirm that in normal conversation, this actually does happen.
