Capital of Kentucky

[Delbert]

How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky, Louisville or Louieville?

[W. Gray]

I am saying Louieville.

Wikipedia says residents say Louaval

Just northeast of us is Louisville, Colorado, and it is pronounced as Lewisville.

[Rudy Taylor]

Any way you want to pronounce it, it's still Frankfort.  

[patyrn]

It definitely is Frankfort--the neighboring "big city" is pronounced Louavull by the natives.  We lived there for a couple of years, and I never did get it down...............always sounded like an "Okie" to them.................................

[dnalexander]

Funny Place Names

How to Talk Virginian
http://www.cohp.org/va/notes/placenames_pronunciation.html

Norfolk - Frequently mispronounced. Properly "NAW-fuk". Really. And make the second syllable as short as possible, almost "fk". Think of, "We don't drink. We don't smoke. Norfolk. Norfolk." If you can make that come out in a humorous manner, you have it exactly right.

How to Speak Thai (According to the Monk in Thailand Blog)
http://monkinthailand.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-do-you-pronounce-phuket.html

Phi Phi, Thailand- is pronounced Pee Pee. They have no f sound

Phuket, Thailand ( According to this guy Jamie it is

"Phuket is my home, so I get a bit annoyed sometimes by people saying Fookit or FooKet or anything else with an F sound. There is no F in Phuket, but the transliteration of Thai words is sometimes nearly impossible. You can see signs in Phuket to the same places with slightly different spellings. The "Ph" in Phuket is a hard P sound, but not as hard as a normal "P", slightly softer with undertones of "B"...The island was once called Bukit, which is Malay for "hill"."  Jaime

When in doubt I say Phuket and pronounce it like the locals!
David

[W. Gray]

For the past couple hours or so, I have been experiencing a very serious senior moment wondering why Rudy introduced Deutcheland to this thread.

[flintauqua]

ROFL

[Rudy Taylor]

The original question reminded me of the old one that went: How many elephants did Moses take on the ark with him?

At least, we thought it was funny back in the 1950s when everything was corny, clean and long before Teresa introduced our wonderful little forum to pornography. 

[flintauqua]

If a plane crashes on Stateline Road in Texarkana, in which state do you bury the survivors?

[kshillbillys]

lol...u don't bury survivors! i love silly stuff like this!