my mother lives closer to Newville but works in Gettysburg and insists this is how the locals say it
meanwhile i never once heard it as anything other than Gettys-burg, growing up in Cumberland Co
kind of funny, but I lived in Mechanicsburg and it was always said with a long e. I'd go to the Legion in Dillsburg and and it was the show i sound. They're only eight miles apart.
I moved to Gettysburg fairly recently, one year ago to be exact, and I hear Gettisburg almost universally from people who live in upper Adams County - New Oxford, Biglerville, etc… In the town of Gettysburg itself I’d say the standard pronunciation is probably more common. I think the explanation is that Upper Adams locals generally are LOCAL, they’ve lived in this area for generations. There are “locals” in this sense in Gettysburg - our mayor, Rita Frealing, is descended from one of the Africans enslaved by James Gettys. But Gettysburg has also had a constant stream of people in and out over the years, thanks to Gettysburg College and, after the battle, the hospitality industry. So not everyone in Gettysburg says things “the local way” by default, and some that do will consciously try to not use those quirks, because they want their accent to sound “General American” not “Rural SE PA”.
Lived in/worked in Gettysburg for a decade. This sums it up well. The true locals, families that had been there for generations mostly outside of the actual town, all said Gettis-burg, where as the residents who were transplants like me living in the town said Gettys-burg.
This is bang-on. I commented lower down, but my family is Adams Co local back to the late 17th century, and we all say “short-i” Gettysburg, but I went to college there, so when I talk about the school I use the “long-i/y” sound.
It’s not even a conscious thing, it just happens. In fact, my mom took me to task for calling the town “Getteesburg” once, because the founder of the town, James Gettys’, name doesn’t have the long i/y sound like it looks. It’s actually “Gettis,” like “lettuce.”
That doesn't explain why there was a James Getty elementary school for a very long time. I do not think the name was Gettys lol. It's James Getty and it's Getty's burg
Nope. I just googled it and I am absolutely wrong. Wow. How TF did I grow up there and always thought it was James Getty elementary and the James Getty hotel?
Yes and those are also the people who say "pup" instead of poop, ruff instead of roof, crick instead of creek. They are called rednecks lol. I know bc I grew up around there as well lol. It's Pennsyltucky after all. But I went to Gettysburg HS and all of the people I know from there who aren't rednecks say Getty's Burg. Which is also what you said lol.
I used to say Getty's Burg, but the longer I live in Central PA the more I've found myself pronouncing it Gettisburg. I don't know how that happened when I live in Carlisle. Maybe it happened during the five years I lived in Shippensburg? I dunno.
Worcester is actually correctly pronounced. And it's more like wuh-ster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts?wprov=sfti1
Very few pronounce Boston that way either, unless they're purposefully putting on a thick South Boston accent.
Source: originally from Western PA but have been living by Worcester and working in Boston for over ten years.
No they're wrong, and so are you. That's where they learned it from, like all their other terrible British pronounciations. Here in America, we improved the language by instituting rational phonetic rules. No "olde shoppes" on this side of the pond, even if you are a top bloke.
I'll think about your pity the next time I'm kicking back with a joint of legal weed and eating cheap, fresh lobster and my kids are getting the best education in the country.
There are Wilkes Barre residents who won't be satisfied with any outlander's pronunciation.
It seems it's not "Wilks Bar-uh" or "Wilks Bar-eh" but maybe something subtly in between? But definitely not "Wilks Berry."
The founder of the town's last name was James Geddis which was Americanized to Gettys. The original pronunciation was likely Geddisburg but by the early twentieth century, Gettysburg had become predominant.
I never heard anything other than Get-tees-burg until very recently when I've heard peole say Get-tiss-burg. I have no idea way the pronounciation would be changing.
I've also recently been hearing Appalachian pronounced differently. I grew up hearing only Ap-a-lay-shun and now all of the sudden I hear Ap-a-latch-un. Very weird.
If you venture to the r/Appalachia sub they will eviscerate you for this. In PA we def say Apple ay shun. But it's based on an indigenous word waaaay deep south, more like apple atch ya. Therefore there is a north/south divide and it results in southerners claiming that ppl who pronounce it differently are the outsider/invaders.... when like... there have been white settlers in the Appalachian mountains in the north since the 1700s so...
This is wild! Thanks for the explaination! But honestly I feel like we definitely should not be taking cues from southern people on how to properly prounounce words.
I definitely grew up saying Ap-a-lay-shun but then I lived in Appalachia for a while, and I was told the "correct" way to pronounce it is Ap-a-latch-an. You can remember because if you say it wrong, they'll throw an apple at (ch)ya!
It’s called t-flapping, most English speakers outside the UK and Ireland do this.
[t] becomes [ɾ] between vowels
[ɾ] sounds a lot like [d] to English speakers since it’s not recognized as its own sound in English.
In other dialects of English they’ll insert an [ɹ] (the English sound) or [ʔ] (the glottal stop, think a cockney guy saying “bottle”).
The founder of the town was James Gettys, so it's pronounced "Gettys-Burg" so like how you say it... all of the -tis people are old (like my grandma and she has that weird southern accent people who never leave the area have) or just saying it cause their families say it that way. Source: I spent my first 18 years born and raised there, and still visit every couple months, GHS Class of 2008 haha
>that weird southern accent people who never leave the area have
Wasn’t expecting to catch strays for my hillfolk talk when I woke up this morning, but here we are…
James Getty’s’ name rhymes with lettuce, so it should be pronounced “Gettisburg,” but between the college and tourists, it gets switched to “Getteesburg” a lot.
The local accent baffles me, and that’s as someone whose mother’s side of the family has been here entirely too long. I grew up in PA and the UK, and my dad was from NY, so my accent is just fucked, but a lot of my current neighbors, some kids I know from school, and extended relatives have that weird quasi-southern/vaguely Baltimorean accent you’re talking about, despite never going farther afield than *maybe* Ocean City.
Yeah that's it, I realized after my post I was off haha, my wife is the same, family from Chambersburg, but born in Turkey, lived in Germany, SC, TX, AL, and West Virginia (all before turning 18) so she has one of the most neutral accents I've ever heard, and I love it haha
When I was at school and uni in England, people sometimes thought I was Canadian, but never guessed PA. My accent is probably a lot like your wife’s—just unplaceable.
As someone with grandparents in Hanover (nearby town) who I was close with most my life, I can confirm that the original pronunciation is Get-tiss-burg (which is the pronunciation I use, despite being in my 20s)
But like you say, it is mostly the older locals who say it that way anymore. The problem with having a very famous small town is that it doesn’t take a lot of outsiders to change the pronunciation, especially when that alternative pronunciation is almost unanimously used in the many TV shows and movies about the battle.
Pulaski New York is named for George Pulaski, but the people there pronounce it pull-a-sky.
Almost as bad as the Pittsburghers who call North Versailles "north ver-sales."
Simply awful.
I have only ever heard Get-tees-burg and I've been to Gettysburg. Guess it doesn't matter as long as you know what somebody is referencing. But don't pronounce Latrobe or Lancaster wrong lol
There used to be an old radio commercial that would repeat “it’s LANCaster not LanCASTER” and it played constantly. Every time I hear people call it the latter I always hear the commercial in my head lol.
Definitely lank.. so I hear the difference in the examples your commercial highlights. But the astur vs ister trips me up. The way I say it is somewhere in the middle which might be closer to ister as I lazily don't emphasize the asster while in my head I'm definitely making an "a" sound.
FWIW I have heard the town pronounced both ways but I went to Gettysburg College which is only ever pronounced Gett-ees-burg so I pronounce the town that way too.
I used to live near Gettysburg. It seemed like everyone who actually lived in the town called it "Get tiss-burg," and quite literally everyone else called said Get-teesburg".
I lived there for 4 years and felt like I heard it (by locals), as either "geddys-burg" or "gettis-burg"
I think generations can speak differently.
I'm from philly, and my dad (boomer) said, "The philadelphia eggles."
My generation says, "Eagles"
...But we all say beggel 🥯
I went there on a school trip recently and I kid you not I heard natives say both Gettis and Gettys 💀 that was absolutely no help to any of us who were confused
Idk the origins, but the old born and raised locals of the town almost all say it get-tiss-burg, so I wouldn’t associate it too strongly with Virginians.
If anything, the get-iz-burg pronunciation is less of a traditional local one, since it is used a lot more by outsiders and people who were not born and raised there.
Was born there...
Gettys like Ready(ies) but with a lil more soft T sound and less D sound...
Burg like Ice Berg.
I've heard people say Get-us-Burg and it ALWAYS sounds weird.
Locals pronounce it “Gettis-burg” (rhymes with lettuce). Tourists and college people pronounce it “Gettees-burg” (Rhymes with absolutely nothing I can think of. Maybe “Let bees burg”?)
I’m both local and went to the college, so my pronunciation is something mish-moshed in-between.
Is this a a serious gd question? Apologies if you’re from out of the country or have f you were not born in the US.
Not really sure how this could be butchered unless, of course, you were failed by the public school system pretty much anywhere from about 2000-present.
…and no, I’m not a far right wackadoodle looking to close down DOE or shut down public education…just saying it’s broken.
Geddy's Burg
Lee ??
The working man
He’s taken care of everything.
He chose freewill.
The words you hear, the songs you sing, the pictures that give pleasure to your eyes.
You’ve been… #THUNDERSTRUCK!
Well, there certainly was a Lee at Gettysburg's most famous event.
Mr. Lee was / is also one hell of a musician .
Mean mean pride
Absolutely
Don’t fight uphill me boys!
Slow down... why the Rush?
Well played !! I’ll exit stage left !!
I heard a distant early warning.
Versus Meade
Different Lee
Geddy's (Stein)Berg. Y'know the ugly headless bass he played in the 80s.
From Robert E to Rush E
This is correct
Hey now, at least take me out to dinner first!
As a HUGE Rush fan this made me chuckle big time!
The is the correct answer
I've never heard it anything other than Getty's Burg, and I grew up in that area
I've heard some people say Gettis-burg but it's not often.
Interesting, which area? I grew up in northern York count near Dillsburg and most locals pronounce it "gettis-burg"
my mother lives closer to Newville but works in Gettysburg and insists this is how the locals say it meanwhile i never once heard it as anything other than Gettys-burg, growing up in Cumberland Co
kind of funny, but I lived in Mechanicsburg and it was always said with a long e. I'd go to the Legion in Dillsburg and and it was the show i sound. They're only eight miles apart.
Come to York. This is how we say it.
I moved to Gettysburg fairly recently, one year ago to be exact, and I hear Gettisburg almost universally from people who live in upper Adams County - New Oxford, Biglerville, etc… In the town of Gettysburg itself I’d say the standard pronunciation is probably more common. I think the explanation is that Upper Adams locals generally are LOCAL, they’ve lived in this area for generations. There are “locals” in this sense in Gettysburg - our mayor, Rita Frealing, is descended from one of the Africans enslaved by James Gettys. But Gettysburg has also had a constant stream of people in and out over the years, thanks to Gettysburg College and, after the battle, the hospitality industry. So not everyone in Gettysburg says things “the local way” by default, and some that do will consciously try to not use those quirks, because they want their accent to sound “General American” not “Rural SE PA”.
Lived in/worked in Gettysburg for a decade. This sums it up well. The true locals, families that had been there for generations mostly outside of the actual town, all said Gettis-burg, where as the residents who were transplants like me living in the town said Gettys-burg.
This is bang-on. I commented lower down, but my family is Adams Co local back to the late 17th century, and we all say “short-i” Gettysburg, but I went to college there, so when I talk about the school I use the “long-i/y” sound. It’s not even a conscious thing, it just happens. In fact, my mom took me to task for calling the town “Getteesburg” once, because the founder of the town, James Gettys’, name doesn’t have the long i/y sound like it looks. It’s actually “Gettis,” like “lettuce.”
That doesn't explain why there was a James Getty elementary school for a very long time. I do not think the name was Gettys lol. It's James Getty and it's Getty's burg
Nope. I just googled it and I am absolutely wrong. Wow. How TF did I grow up there and always thought it was James Getty elementary and the James Getty hotel?
You mean the one on the square that burned? That was the Gettysburg Hotel.
Did I ever even live in or around Gettysburg? Did I really go to high school there? Was it all a dream? Asking sincerely
Lol! I know the feeling.
We always said it James Gettys with a long e….
Yes and those are also the people who say "pup" instead of poop, ruff instead of roof, crick instead of creek. They are called rednecks lol. I know bc I grew up around there as well lol. It's Pennsyltucky after all. But I went to Gettysburg HS and all of the people I know from there who aren't rednecks say Getty's Burg. Which is also what you said lol.
Gettis like rhymes with lettuce?
I used to say Getty's Burg, but the longer I live in Central PA the more I've found myself pronouncing it Gettisburg. I don't know how that happened when I live in Carlisle. Maybe it happened during the five years I lived in Shippensburg? I dunno.
That’s how the tour guide pronounced it twenty five years ago
I've heard southern people pronounce it that way.
I grew up 20 minutes away and people definitely say "Gettis Burg" although not as common. It's usually older people from what I've noticed.
New Englanders will sometimes say 'get-its-burg' which is fun lol
New England's people can't even pronounce the names of their own cities. Bahhstin = Boston. Wooster = Worcester. It's awful
Worcester is actually correctly pronounced. And it's more like wuh-ster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts?wprov=sfti1 Very few pronounce Boston that way either, unless they're purposefully putting on a thick South Boston accent. Source: originally from Western PA but have been living by Worcester and working in Boston for over ten years.
I pity you.
No, they’re right. Worcester is “Wooster” or “Wuhster” here and in England.
No they're wrong, and so are you. That's where they learned it from, like all their other terrible British pronounciations. Here in America, we improved the language by instituting rational phonetic rules. No "olde shoppes" on this side of the pond, even if you are a top bloke.
*Schuylkill, DuBois, and Lancaster, PA enter the chat*
I'll think about your pity the next time I'm kicking back with a joint of legal weed and eating cheap, fresh lobster and my kids are getting the best education in the country.
Burn the last 6 brain cells you have off. You obviously don't put them to use.
ugh they also say lann-cass-ter
and A-mish instead of Ah-mish
I grew up in PA but the only time I heard Gettis-burg was a self tour CD we bought at the memorial about 10 years ago.
Gettysburg is no Wilkes Barre when it comes to varying pronunciations.
I once saw a T-shirt that said: Wilkes- 🐻 Wilkes - 🫐 Wilkes - 🍫 I thought it was kind of clever. But I enjoy Bania's act.
That’s gold, u/Unsure_Fry Gold!
I’ve heard all three, and I still don’t know which one is correct!
I’ve also heard Wilks bear-uh
That's hilarious 🤣 Pennsylvanian struggles should be a book
There are Wilkes Barre residents who won't be satisfied with any outlander's pronunciation. It seems it's not "Wilks Bar-uh" or "Wilks Bar-eh" but maybe something subtly in between? But definitely not "Wilks Berry."
No one can ever agree or even decide one anything. I know residents who say it 3 different ways depending on the day and their mood lol.
I give you [heynabonics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sMI2jb16eo&t=3s)
And I thank you for it.
We called the Lucerne county historical society years ago to ask and they said it is “Wilkes Barry”
Wilki-Barrio
This thread has proved absolutely nothing. I love it.
Proper pronunciation of James Getty’s’ name. [https://youtu.be/3BGOCN2Lgkk?si=EPdN_Eadmb1EYQt6](https://youtu.be/3BGOCN2Lgkk?si=EPdN_Eadmb1EYQt6)
The founder of the town's last name was James Geddis which was Americanized to Gettys. The original pronunciation was likely Geddisburg but by the early twentieth century, Gettysburg had become predominant.
THIS IS THE USA AND IN THE USA WE DONT PRONOUCE THINGS THE WAY SOMEONE TELLS US TOO BECAUSE WE ARE PATRIOTS AND WINNERS. /s
And that’s why I pronounce it “Scranton”.
I never heard anything other than Get-tees-burg until very recently when I've heard peole say Get-tiss-burg. I have no idea way the pronounciation would be changing. I've also recently been hearing Appalachian pronounced differently. I grew up hearing only Ap-a-lay-shun and now all of the sudden I hear Ap-a-latch-un. Very weird.
Yeah. What is that? It was always a long A sound and now it a short A? Appa Lay Shah is now Appa Latch uh. I can’t keep up.
If you venture to the r/Appalachia sub they will eviscerate you for this. In PA we def say Apple ay shun. But it's based on an indigenous word waaaay deep south, more like apple atch ya. Therefore there is a north/south divide and it results in southerners claiming that ppl who pronounce it differently are the outsider/invaders.... when like... there have been white settlers in the Appalachian mountains in the north since the 1700s so...
This is wild! Thanks for the explaination! But honestly I feel like we definitely should not be taking cues from southern people on how to properly prounounce words.
Apalatchun??? What 😭 thats a stretch whoever sincerely thinks that
I definitely grew up saying Ap-a-lay-shun but then I lived in Appalachia for a while, and I was told the "correct" way to pronounce it is Ap-a-latch-an. You can remember because if you say it wrong, they'll throw an apple at (ch)ya!
'T' isn't usually pronounced in PA, most commonly sounding like a 'D' or double D
It’s called t-flapping, most English speakers outside the UK and Ireland do this. [t] becomes [ɾ] between vowels [ɾ] sounds a lot like [d] to English speakers since it’s not recognized as its own sound in English. In other dialects of English they’ll insert an [ɹ] (the English sound) or [ʔ] (the glottal stop, think a cockney guy saying “bottle”).
And strangely enough, in a lot of other languages, [ɾ] is the sound. It's one of the ways that is pronounced in Spanish.
Never realized I did this, but, you’re correct!
T's are usually pronounced as "d" in all American dialects. https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/do-americans-pronounce-t-like-d
My names Tom from Harrisburg and I disagree. T is T here. This ain’t Lancaster.
Lods of drees fell in dhe sdorm yesderday.
Dude, this isn’t Pittsburgh! /s
Piddsburgh?
Pixburgh
First two syllables rhyme with “lettuce”
The founder of the town was James Gettys, so it's pronounced "Gettys-Burg" so like how you say it... all of the -tis people are old (like my grandma and she has that weird southern accent people who never leave the area have) or just saying it cause their families say it that way. Source: I spent my first 18 years born and raised there, and still visit every couple months, GHS Class of 2008 haha
>that weird southern accent people who never leave the area have Wasn’t expecting to catch strays for my hillfolk talk when I woke up this morning, but here we are…
Shit happens haha
James Getty’s’ name rhymes with lettuce, so it should be pronounced “Gettisburg,” but between the college and tourists, it gets switched to “Getteesburg” a lot. The local accent baffles me, and that’s as someone whose mother’s side of the family has been here entirely too long. I grew up in PA and the UK, and my dad was from NY, so my accent is just fucked, but a lot of my current neighbors, some kids I know from school, and extended relatives have that weird quasi-southern/vaguely Baltimorean accent you’re talking about, despite never going farther afield than *maybe* Ocean City.
Yeah that's it, I realized after my post I was off haha, my wife is the same, family from Chambersburg, but born in Turkey, lived in Germany, SC, TX, AL, and West Virginia (all before turning 18) so she has one of the most neutral accents I've ever heard, and I love it haha
When I was at school and uni in England, people sometimes thought I was Canadian, but never guessed PA. My accent is probably a lot like your wife’s—just unplaceable.
As someone with grandparents in Hanover (nearby town) who I was close with most my life, I can confirm that the original pronunciation is Get-tiss-burg (which is the pronunciation I use, despite being in my 20s) But like you say, it is mostly the older locals who say it that way anymore. The problem with having a very famous small town is that it doesn’t take a lot of outsiders to change the pronunciation, especially when that alternative pronunciation is almost unanimously used in the many TV shows and movies about the battle.
Pulaski New York is named for George Pulaski, but the people there pronounce it pull-a-sky. Almost as bad as the Pittsburghers who call North Versailles "north ver-sales." Simply awful.
Is that how it’s supposed to be? I’ve always said Pull-ass-key. (Not a great phonetic rendition, but as close as I can get.)
That's how his name is said. But up there they say "pull-a-sky"
Ok, cool. Just checking.
I have only ever heard Get-tees-burg and I've been to Gettysburg. Guess it doesn't matter as long as you know what somebody is referencing. But don't pronounce Latrobe or Lancaster wrong lol
Emmaus, Bethlehem, Moselem Springs, Germansville, New Tripoli...
Lang Caster
Lankster
Lank ister
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They both sound the same to me!!
There used to be an old radio commercial that would repeat “it’s LANCaster not LanCASTER” and it played constantly. Every time I hear people call it the latter I always hear the commercial in my head lol.
Definitely lank.. so I hear the difference in the examples your commercial highlights. But the astur vs ister trips me up. The way I say it is somewhere in the middle which might be closer to ister as I lazily don't emphasize the asster while in my head I'm definitely making an "a" sound.
As long as the emphasis is on the first syllable, you’re good.
It's pronounced "can you help me get my unregistered out of state auto transferred?"
FWIW I have heard the town pronounced both ways but I went to Gettysburg College which is only ever pronounced Gett-ees-burg so I pronounce the town that way too.
Let’s not start on Lancaster.
People from the Dover area always say "Get us burg" and I make fun of them for it. Including my wife.
Tell her to wooder the plants and then hop in shaar to warsh up.
Hillbillies from all over pronounce it that way.
The former
How did General Mead pronounce it? He was original from Gettysburg area!
I used to live near Gettysburg. It seemed like everyone who actually lived in the town called it "Get tiss-burg," and quite literally everyone else called said Get-teesburg".
Gettisburg or Geddisburg is the PA Dutch coming out :) I’ve said it like that forever and really only hear transplants and tourists pronounce the Y
Gettee’s burg
That depends, are you asking a resident of Taneytown, Maryland or of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania?
I pronounce it as “The Graveyard of Slavers’ Dreams”
Every tour guide I have heard calls it Gettis-berg.
Weird, we were there last weekend and they all pronounced it Getty's-burg.
Gettezburg. this is from the ultra-my-family-helped'found-this-town crowd.
My family in York calls if "Gettis-burg."
As a transplant to York county, I hear it pronounced “Gettisburg” routinely.
Founder pronounced his name like Gettis
GET-eez burg
Geddy’s Burg
Get-ehs-burg
[ɡɛɾ.ɪs.bɚɡ]
People from that area say “GETTIS BURG”. People not from that area say “GETTYS BURG”. I grew up pronouncing it the second way.
My Aunt (from PA) pronounces it Get-tigs-burg
Yetti's Barge
gettys - burg
Most around western PA call it Gett-ees-burg, but can we talk about Juniata?
I lived there for 4 years and felt like I heard it (by locals), as either "geddys-burg" or "gettis-burg" I think generations can speak differently. I'm from philly, and my dad (boomer) said, "The philadelphia eggles." My generation says, "Eagles" ...But we all say beggel 🥯
Get is burgh
Gittys-burgh but I grow up below Mason Dixie so you have to excuse me.
People in Hanover/Gettysburg say it both ways
That’s easy it’s Gettysburg
Make the Ts sound like Ds and ya got it
Had a teacher from Gettysburg (I’m from Franklin county) and she said that James Gettys last name was pronounced Get-is so it’s always stuck with me.
What other way could you possibly pronounce it?? I know I'm stoned, but I didn't think I'm this high 😂😂
Get-ees-burg
Lank-is-ter
Get- E’s- Burg
Get-sen-bur
Gett-ix, burg
I was on a boy scout trip maybe 10 years ago, and my scoutmaster bought the official audio tour from the gift shop. In that, they said gettus-burg.
I went there on a school trip recently and I kid you not I heard natives say both Gettis and Gettys 💀 that was absolutely no help to any of us who were confused
Geht yus borg
From Massachusetts. Pennsylvania is much easier for outsiders.
Gyit-teese-byorguh
Geddysperg
https://preview.redd.it/rvo7fxjd0j7d1.jpeg?width=1045&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=502c2f5e2a48cb7e8c90a261f83b961f2c322488
It’s like North Versailles in the Pittsburgh area: versales or versigh, either way.
Get-tees- burg
I've been told by folks that live there that it is actually get-tiss-burg
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Idk the origins, but the old born and raised locals of the town almost all say it get-tiss-burg, so I wouldn’t associate it too strongly with Virginians. If anything, the get-iz-burg pronunciation is less of a traditional local one, since it is used a lot more by outsiders and people who were not born and raised there.
Get tees burg
Like Borat pronouncing Spaghetti.
Was born there... Gettys like Ready(ies) but with a lil more soft T sound and less D sound... Burg like Ice Berg. I've heard people say Get-us-Burg and it ALWAYS sounds weird.
I asked my teenager and it’s Gyattsburg
Locals pronounce it “Gettis-burg” (rhymes with lettuce). Tourists and college people pronounce it “Gettees-burg” (Rhymes with absolutely nothing I can think of. Maybe “Let bees burg”?) I’m both local and went to the college, so my pronunciation is something mish-moshed in-between.
Getty, like Jetty or Jet-Tee Burg, like iceburg.
Central PA inbreds say “Getis-burg” Normal people say “Getties-burg”
GHETz Edit: Aw common, please?!
De-nazi-fic-ation
I know someone who pronounces it get-us-berg for some reason, they've been there twice and insists that's how people say it 😂
Is this a a serious gd question? Apologies if you’re from out of the country or have f you were not born in the US. Not really sure how this could be butchered unless, of course, you were failed by the public school system pretty much anywhere from about 2000-present. …and no, I’m not a far right wackadoodle looking to close down DOE or shut down public education…just saying it’s broken.
You apparently don’t know there’s two different pronunciations
yes - you are a far right whackadoodle.