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The original was posted on /r/lifeprotips by /u/Ganesha811 on 2025-04-30 19:29:40+00:00.

If you’re not sure how to pronounce a town’s name, look up “[Town] local news” on YouTube and the news anchors will demonstrate how to say it correctly

Gotta be the local news stations and affiliates, though. If it’s national news, all bets are off. Reports about minor car crashes and obscure zoning disputes are guaranteed to be local. The local anchors know they’ll get made fun of by natives if they get pronunciations wrong.

This especially applies in America where locals love to come up with inventive pronunciations of names that were originally Native American, French, or Spanish. If you’ve just moved to a new place and need to learn all the local towns, or are interviewing for a job somewhere you don’t live, this trick will work.