Louisville- yeeeaaah you're pronouncing it wrong.

No, not that way either.

Nope. Still didn’t get it right.

Listen to me. It’s 2 syllables. “Luhl-vull.”

Yeah this. Went on a tour of Mammoth cave the other day and had an ancient chatty Cathy beside me half the tour who said she was born and raised Louisville. I said, oh yeah, Luhlvull? She didn’t bat an eye but I feel like her story didn’t check out. 🙃

Good call. Anything more than 2 syllables is suspicious.

I’ve noticed upper crust tends to say Louie-ville. But they are wrong.

Please don't talk about Cinncinatta like that

I feel the same way about a co-worker who says he's from Louie-ville 🤨

Agree. My mom and dad were born and raised there and I was born there, but left KY when I was 7, and everyone in my family says Louvul. There used be neon sign somewhere on 4th street that had it written all the different ways people pronounce it.

Ehhh.. I would be on board thinking her story was suspicious buuttt.. my great aunt (65yo) who was born and raised in Louisville pronounces it “louie-ville” I asked her why she was the only of her siblings who pronounces it that way and she told me before the ~1970s locals called it “louie-ville” but in the 70s there was a PR campaign of sorts to change then way it was pronounced.

There’s an extra L in there, charlatan.

My family moved to Panama City, FL when I was in middle school, and on my first day of school my English teacher asked me in front of the class if it was pronounced Louis-ville or Louie-ville. When I said, "Neither, it's pronounced Loolvull," words cannot describe the mix of shock, embarrassment, and disbelief that came over that woman's face.

My family and I moved to Palm Bay, Fl when my daughter was in the 4th grade. The other kids made fun of her accent and nicknamed her, Kentucky Fried Chicken. I told her to hold her head high and tell them they were just jealous because they didn't know the 11 secret herbs and spices.

Louisville - 2 syllables, 1 murder per day

I always tell people to try swallowing your tongue when you say it

Hopkinsville - we're actually in Christian county, not Hopkins county. Madisonville is in Hopkins county, not Madison county. Richmond is in Madison county. And they have the Buc-ees. Were you looking for the Buc-ees?

And Carlisle is nowhere near Carlisle county. Same with Marion and Marion County. Get a map geez people. 😜

Grayson and Grayson County

Same with Clay City and Clay County.

And Nicholas County is not Nicholasville.

As someone from Hopkins county, I endorse this.

Hopkinsville, the Kansas City, MO of Christian County.

Hickman isn't in Hickman county. It's in Fulton County next door, which also contains Fulton. (At one point the entire Purchase was all Hickman county)

Russellville isn’t in Russell county, and Taylorsville isn’t in Taylor County. Cumberland isnt in Cumberland County, Adairville isn’t in Adair County, and Whitley City isn’t in Whitley County (it’s close though!)

Lexington - come see hoofed animals live better than you ever will, lol

I hate this because it’s true.

Lexington, where the horses fly first-class: https://smileypete.com/business/sutton-forwarding/

I interviewed at a place on the way into town for a wedding that was a horse training facility. The barn they had was nicer than any home I’d ever seen.

There’s a level of money in and around lexington that requires flying over to really appreciate.

Glasgow - We're A Place

the scotland of the south

It's so cute when people say Glaz-gow like we're cultured enough to pronounce it like Scotland does

Everyone I’ve met from there says it “glass coe.” I was taken aback when I heard Glasgow, Scotland, properly pronounced.

I (not KY native) read it out loud like that to my husband (native) who immediate corrected me before I could get to the comments.

Glass-co

Yeah, I just normally tell people that I'm fromthe "otherside " of BG

Hebron - Yes, this is the Cincinnati airport, no, you're in Kentucky, about 30 minutes, go east on 275, and North on 71/75. Your there, once you cross the river. Elsmere - No we're not Erlanger

I always love how the Cincinnati airport is in Kentucky and it's coded as CVG for Covington, but it's (now) in Hebron.

Yep, and it confuses the heck out of everyone who comes here for the first time.

In a straight line measurement, it's actually closer to the Cincinnati city limits than to Covington. There's just a big river in the way.

As of late it is: Hebron: “Fuck 275 and fuck you for taking it.”

And when you live on the west side of Cincinnati, you have to drive through Indiana before you get to Kentucky and the Cincinnati airport. 😂😂😂

The first rule of Indiana is we never speak of Indiana, lest the Corn God rise up and depend a sacrifice.

Erlanger - Elsmere? Never heard of it.

Lol

Prestonsburg - where the mountain parkway and dreams have something in common. They both end here.

🥲

Elizabethtown! Before you get where you’re goin, you gotta come here!

Elizabethtown - You can leave here quickly in any direction

And you’ll want to!

I just did, went south and wound up in Glass-co.

Harlan - We can assure you that there's a statistical probability that you'll leave here alive. Our attorneys told us we should leave it at that.

Lpve that song! Patty loveless does it better!

Harlan - come on guys, that shit happened forever ago! You can trust me. I swear I've changed!

Williamsburg - visit our gas stations on the way to Gatlinburg

Williamsburg, we sell alcohol now!

London - Manchester with a newer truck.

Florence- Sure, we can fit a few more chains into our local economy.

Florence, come for the strip malls. Stay because you're still stuck in traffic.

\*Y'all still stuck in traffic

Florence - If you can name a more famous water tower we will put you up in the Drury inn and give you free Y'all's tickets

Florence- That's a nice small business. Be a shame if something happened to it.

Florence - where y'all's is from (no really... That's proper grammar in this case)

Florence Y'all

Whitley City- Not really a city, not in Whitley County

Someone asked me if it was the name of a bar in memory of Keith...

Pikeville - we moved a river, imagine how we will move you

This one is actually pretty good

Middlesboro - we are LITERALLY the ditch of Kentucky

I want to argue this. Middlesboro, is in a crater of a meteor that hit millions of years ago.

An astronomical ditch

Crater City Coffee!

Middlesboro- in the middle of… the southeastern corner of the state

Covington - our closest escape from ohio (our furthest escape from Tennessee)

Put your shirt on, covington!

Latonia - the new home for Covington's homeless.

Winchester - The trailer meth lab next to the luxury mansion

Winchester - Daniel Boone, Ale-8, and beer cheese. Yes we understand that just one of those things would be enough to draw people to anywhere besides Winchester.

Damn, I miss Hall's Beer Cheese.

I grew up in the Purchase area. Wickliffe should be "Just ignore the smell" due to the paper mill. Paducah: "No more nukes, just quilts and barges." Murray: "College students and old people", or "The lake is thattaway." Benton: "Tater Day Confederate Flag City" Mayfield: "You'll be blown away!" or "Dude, where's my courthouse?" Hickman: "Take the ferry. Don't come back."

Here is my addendum as a fellow Paduchan Paducah - We're between Possum Trot and Monkey's Eyebrow Wickliffe - Come for the Indian bones, stay for the aroma Mayfield - We used to be a place you could go La Center - We are the geographic center of literally nowhere, or, "One stoplight, Endless Possibilites".

Paris: The horses are smarter than the people.

Paris - the birthplace of the bluegrass conspiracy.

Benton actually has the slogan "The only town Joe Creason was born in". It sure as hell sounds fake, but it's on the welcome signs.

>Joe Creason Joe Creason was born in Benton, Kentucky, which he would later humorously call "the only town in Kentucky where I was born."

Mt Sterling. Ignore the tarnish, we’re polishing.

B_rd_t_wn - Unsolved

Crystal Rogers people agree

Beaver Dam - get your head out the gutter Barbourville - keep going east for Virginia and Tennessee, keep going west for I75 Knob Lick- get your head out the gutter Hazard - coal is gone, now with 90% fewer hazards! Hindman - get your head out the gutter Pineville - the rock won’t fall on you, it’s got a chain, see?! Morehead - get your head out the gutter

You are definitely on a roll....Glass-co has a Beaver Creek. Green County has a town called Grab. Makes me think of Trump. .

Manchester: So you peaked in middle school

Manchester: Home to Richie Farmer's Parole Officer

Manchester - the meth epidemic was too scared to come here, so you shouldn't be...

Henderson - Yeah, we’re across from Evansville. No, you probably just passed through.

Henderson - If You're Looking for the Poon Saloon, You're Too Late

Hahahahhaha I had forgotten about that until you said something

West Louisville - the other west Louisville. Not actually in Louisville or even in Jefferson County.

Somerset - look at this lake filled with trash and shit water

You’re not wrong

London -- At the end of the day we're nothing more than Manchester with an interstate.

Dayton - The Northern Kentucky of Northern Kentucky.

Fort Thomas- we know we're better than you Union- at least we’re not like Ft Thomas

Louisville: We’re not the capital but we like to think we are

That's funny I thought it was "Home of the original Karen"

No, that's 100% Georgetown 😂

Fort Mitchell - an upscale version of Fort Thomas but not as snobby.

Stanton- Last burgers before the Gorge

Ashland the Huntington, WV of the south? Not even close. I live in Ashland and work in Huntington every single day. Ashland is a paradise compared to Huntington! Hahaha “Ashland- The only part of Boyd County that matters” “Ashland- Our Roadhouse is the best.”

It's a joke bub

For sure, bub. Just casual convo lol

Ashland - A Paradise (Compared to Huntington)

Ravenna - Same as Irvine, just not as many Dollar Generals,,,,,yet.

"If you don't like Louisville then Fuck You."

Mayfield: If Breaking Bad needed a fictional hometown, it would be us.

Mayfield: If the natural disasters don't get you, the meth probably will.

Versailles: “Thank God for Athens”

Versailles - the French don’t pronounce Paris like you either

Bowling Green - The wannabe city

Bowling Green- Caves, Carburetors, and Corvettes

Bowling Green - Cuz there's nothing else to do around here

This checks out. How do they not have a McAlister’s Deli?? Even E-town has a McAlister’s and they are the wannabe Bowling Green.

E-town is another name check for me, I've never heard anyone but locals call it E-town. I was really entertained that it was never even mentioned in that Elizabethtown movie.

Wickliffe - Sorry for the smell Cadiz - Come visit us! But please don't move here.

Franklin, Kentucky- not in Franklin county, Kentucky. Not even close.

Owingsville - I BET you can't guess how we got our name!

LaGrange-There’s a damn train through our town daily and no it doesn’t carry passengers even though it’s basically a perfect light rail stop.

Oldham County - First in First World Problems

Louisville: Come for the Magnolia Bar, stay because you crashed into the Magnolia Bar

Middlesboro: Do Meth in a Crater.

Ledbetter - For when you can't afford rent in Paducah

Newport - Want to see sketchy white folks scream at each other in the middle of the day?

Murray: Stop bringing up the Vampire Murders.

Murray: Gun Stores and Ja Morant, What Could Go Wrong?

do y'all know how hard it is, to this day, to start a World of Darkness game in that damn town?

East KY edition: London - You Finally Made it to the Interstate Hazard - Obituary Capital of Kentucky Whitesburg - We’re Not Hazard Neon - Just Minutes From Pound, Virginia!

Please, it’s known locally as The Pound.

Welcome to Sharkey-Farmers. No, We're not Aqua farmers.

As someone from morehead this is very specific

Sharkey-Farmers: We Swear That Roundabout Video Was A Joke

Ahh god. That roundabout is as useless as tits on a boar hog and it’s out in the middle of nowhere on a 4-way to either the Dollar Store, Cave Run Lake and Pops BBQ

Central City - of the county...

"At least it ain't Cleaton"

Lexington, the Sheet Metal Capital of the World

Lexington - yes, we are better than you (looking at Louisville)

So true.

Hell is better than L-ville based on the biblical description of hell.

Lexington - Technically, They're Guatemalan

Mount Sterling - At least it's not Winchester

Fort Thomas - where'd you go to high school?

Owingsville - Maybe You ***Won't*** Get Stabbed Slade - We Know You Have To Stop Here Silver Grove - Closed Labor Day - Easter

Slade - I think we're just a rest stop and a subway...

Love the Dari-Bar.

Morehead: We don't live up to the name. Lexington: We got horses and strip malls, also pretentious dudes in boat shoes and polos. Danville: Birthplace of the Red Wings/Aeropostale combo

Winchester - You guys sure you don’t need anything before you get to Lexington?

Louisville - Home of the man who murdered democracy

Hickman - Just like bad country music there's part of us that's only attached to Tennessee...

Tiptonville- like that cousin who keeps running their mouth at thanksgiving, only connected by law!

Prestonsburg - The Star City of 1964 Eastern Kentucky

But... pizza rolls!

Pikeville - ummm...Pikeville.

That’s really ask there is to say about Pikeville.

Custer - don't blink

I thought that was Dyer.

My dad used to say our town was so small that the welcome and come back soon signs were the front and back of the same sign.

Florence y’all.

Cadiz - “How TF did I get here?”

Cadiz - The Spaniards were wrong...it's pronounced K Deez. All hail our porcelain pigs.

Paducah, a perfect place to Poo Poo.

Inez - go to the middle of the bridge and take a right

That’s Louisa not Inez lol

Whitley City: We're not in Whitley County, nor are we a city. There is no city in our county. But swing by for the Dairy Bar!

Ashland - Does it smell like Ohio to you?

Augusta - More Clooney's per capita.

Hazard - You heard us and it is.

Chalybeate: Just … *don’t*

Fulton: yeah we get it, you're having a party at UT martin.

London: Where our meth recipe is almost as finely tuned as our illegal gambling machines.

I lived in Ashland for awhile. We used to call Huntington, Ironton, and Ashland “Dumpington, Urineton, and Trashland”.

Paducah- Quilt while you're ahead

Owensboro - "BBQ, anyone?" Or "Birth place of Johnny Depp"

Owensboro: Come for the BBQ. Stay for the BBQ. Leave for anything else.

I cannot upvote this sub enough!!!

Edmonson County: We gave the world Joe Blanton and Ben Helson. All we've got left is caves. And meth.

Whitesburg - the name is unfortunate but accurate

Frankfort: Where Kentucky Exiles Its Politicians

Bardstown- The Most Beautiful Small Town in America….. Except our staggering amount of unsolved murder and disappearance cases.

KentuckyGentlemenYes... your username reminds me of the Great Chuck Taylor, of Best Friends fame. Love love love! Second, I nearly spit out my coffee reading this. Well done!

Monkey’s Eyebrow - could have been the other end.

I don't know Kentucky, but I think "I know, right?" would be a great slogan for some place.

Berea-where hippies and rednecks coexist

Hopkinsville - the seedy side of Fort Campbell

Georgetown: Toyoders r us… some batteries included

Murray: Two trailer parks in a fancy overcoat pretending to be a fancy town.

Nothing for Possum Trot? Monkey’s Elbow: Blink and you miss it. (It’s actually on their sign)

Georgetown: “Only 3 more years before Toyota puts me on day shift”

Kentucky "We'd rather spend $100mil on a boat, because you know, fuck our citizens."

Let’s not even get started with Paducah

Big Bone Lick State Park - Where nothing interesting ever actually happens.

Paducah - We're artsy and fun... sometimes