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Local pronunciations on television shows crack me up. And while they generally do pretty well with naming surrounding towns and cities (not always, but usually), local pronunciations still elude them.
Googlemaps are great for things like roads/distances/time it takes to get there, but it actually WON'T tell you how the locals pronounce place names.
Bowie, Maryland is NOT actually pronounced "BOW-ee" like the knife. It is pronounced "BOO-ee" by locals who are actually local. Something I learned on vacation this year - and something that stuck out at me when the television program I was watching mentioned it in a list of cities and towns the characters were discussing - they pronounced it how it is spelled and not how it is actually said.
Googlemaps are great for things like roads/distances/time it takes to get there, but it actually WON'T tell you how the locals pronounce place names.
Bowie, Maryland is NOT actually pronounced "BOW-ee" like the knife. It is pronounced "BOO-ee" by locals who are actually local. Something I learned on vacation this year - and something that stuck out at me when the television program I was watching mentioned it in a list of cities and towns the characters were discussing - they pronounced it how it is spelled and not how it is actually said.
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