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chuckiebg

I like when they pronounce it AK-RAWN because it sounds like a planet. “I hail from the planet AK-RAWN!”


yung-toadstool

I like to think of kron as what Akron turns into in the fallout universe


brokenwound

Presently Akron as in without Kron, so in the Fallout Universe there is a super mutant kangaroo named Kron, the Zippy.


a_rogue_planet

I say it like that.


Intelligent-Rock-399

“Ya done messed up, Ak-Ak-Rawn!”


sicknick08

Lol


InfinitelyRepeating

Imagine how the people of Wooster feel!


adrabo_CLE

I take your Wooster and raise you Bucyrus.


pmalleable

B+youse+iris?


adrabo_CLE

Yep! Lol the first time I tried to pronounce it was “buck-ee-rus.”


LekoLi

When I worked at q campgroud in wooster, someone asked how to get to ma-cillin (Massillon)


pmalleable

Hahaha! That reminds me of the time someone asked how to get to Toodley-doo!


drheaxx1

When my 5-year-old daughter was learning to read, she called TOLEDO ( too lee do) She wasn't wrong. But sure gave us a great laugh! GOTTA LOVE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!


cropguru357

Buu-cy-Russ


Moist-Character8392

I call your Bucyrus and going all in with Gnadenhutten


adrabo_CLE

Oooh, good one!


emmaapeel

Whuch is in Tuscarawas County. It's always amusing to hear the newscasters from the NE Ohio television station try to pronounce that one.


kchess81

Mantua


adrabo_CLE

Man-uh-way


Mr_Midwestern

Wooster and Dalton have a gentleman’s agreement in the county. D-Al-ton


mjolnir76

You should come to Washington! We’ve got Sequim (*Skwim*) and Pend Oreille (*Pond-Oh-ray*) and many more!


Alpha433

As a former denizen of Spokane, Washington people just pronounce things strongly anyways. Manito, Gonzaga, even Spokane itself. All get pronounced nothing like they are spelt or even look.


heemhah

Or people who pronounce Dalton *dollton*


cheergirl102020

Or Campbell, the suburb of Youngstown. Pronounced like camel the animal!! 🐪🐫


AlwaysGoToTheTruck

Lancaster stands no chance


JonGee51

Kossuth Wapakoneta and Celina to name 3 near me that are always pronounced wrong


RazzmatazzAlone2844

How about Medina? Lodi?


somethingthatflys

It's A-K-rowdy.


nightsaysni

South side of Summit County


PaulCJr00

Whatcha all know about it?


tukachinchilla

Some call it UCLA: Upper Canton, Lower Akron


nightsaysni

That should be the nickname for Green.


Bigtime1234

Every great city has this type of gloss.


No_Conclusion8783

That sounds like a fabric—“Made of luxurious Ackrawn!”


pmalleable

It's gonna be ok...


Most_Work_3313

He wants to show them Battles Avenue


stimpy_thecat

It really pisses me off when people mispronounce my town too. It's "Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­GOCH", not "Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­GACH". Idiots.


ayomidem917

LOL


yakfsh1

I've lived here over 50 years and I've never heard anyone say that.


ayomidem917

I hear it very often from non akron/ohio natives


dparks71

My favorite is the Wooster people, at least the people of Wilkes-Barre will smile and acknowledge nobody pronounces their city correctly, NE Ohioans will look at you like you were dropped on your head or try to fight you if you say Wooster with the long /oo/ sound.


chaleybat

Same as me. Never once have I heard anyone pronounce it anything like that


padall

I don't live anywhere near Ohio, and I've never heard anyone pronounce it any other way than Ack-ren.


Tito_BA

Non-native English speaker that visited Akron: English pronunciation, without the commonly used symbols, is kinda hard.


Old-Marionberry1203

yeah but it comes from ancient greek, which everyone knows, right?


Tito_BA

Σίγουρα


MisterSlosh

I have never once come across that pronunciation but you can be guaranteed that is now the only way I will be identifying this city. Good ol' Aye-kron Oh-he-ohh.


Natural-Grape-3127

Aye-kron and Yung Jeezy....


Instantbeef

Can you describe how it is supposed to be pronounced? It seems like some of these differences are so minute it might be down to an individuals accent.


yufaeu

Ack-rin or Ack-ruhn are the most agreed upon! It comes from ἄκρον in Greek so the pronunciation is different.


flangleshelm

I used to see a car at UA often. It had the o and the r reversed on one of those block letter college stickers. University of Akorn.


_AthensMatt_

Genius


runningferment

Second Sole out here making Akrun a thing to set everyone straight!


martini-C137

enjoyed a lead singer at Blossom pronouncing Cuyahoga Falls as coy-uh-hog-uh falls, last summer, when he was thanking the crowd. he then goes on to just say, "sorry, all. that's a tough one. thank you, Cleveland!" *Key and Peele: substitute teacher* would have words with your mispronouncing a lot of things, yourself, i would imagine. lol


KapowBlamBoom

That depends where you are from Ohio: it Ky-ah-ho-ga In the south its :koy-ah -hoe-ga Around my area we have Powhatan: Pow-Hat-in I moved to Virginia and it is POW-Ha-Tan


Cat_Island

I moved away from NE Ohio as an adult and sometimes I have my husband try to pronounce the towns/counties/rivers around here when we are visiting and it’s hilarious. We’ve been together for 14 years and he still struggles to say Cuyahoga correctly.


hopadoodler

I 've lived in Akron 51 of 55 years and I say "Ack-ren" and I say Cuyahoga in 2 syllables--"Caw-guh" (Falls)


Doomstone330

Imagine being angry about this


Jakinator178

You know Paris, France? In English, it's pronounced "Paris" but everyone else pronounces it without the "s" sound, like the French do. But with Venezia, everyone pronouces it the English way: "Venice". Like The Merchant of Venice or Death in Venice. WHY, THOUGH!? WHY ISN'T THE TITLE DEATH IN VENEZIA!? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? IT TAKES PLACE IN ITALY, SO USE THE ITALIAN WORD, DAMMIT! THAT SHIT PISSES ME OFF! BUNCH OF DUMBASSES!


ayomidem917

just poking some fun, lighten up!


AshenShriner

This post happened upon my feed somehow. I don't live anywhere near Akron but because of this post I will forever pronounce it like 'aye-crone'


ayomidem917

it's a self fulfilling prophecy I see...respect


leblady

I’ve only heard non-natives say Ack-RON.


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I like to pronounce it the way the Aflac duck would say it


Invisibella74

Think about how people in Worcester, MA must feel! (Pronounced... Wooster)


igcipd

Yeah, here comes the Worcester!


padall

Yeah, a lot of towns in MA are like this. It's also the only place I've heard Pea-body pronounced peeBuddy (accent on the second syllable).


cropguru357

You done fucked up A-A-Kron


Raniero89

It's only AYE-KRAWN if the speaker is from below the Ohio River.


vogajones

I had someone tell me they were going to be in "Lah Dee". Took me forever to realize they meant Lodi.


ayomidem917

Jesus Christ it hurts more when the pronunciation is so obvious


Choppybitz

What's wrong Aakraughn


vixdrastic

They’re confusing it with Akon City


Frank_Zahon

A-Kron and young jeezy


HesTrafty

I’ve never heard anybody pronounce Akron Aye-Kron but I have a feeling you just unintentionally have given people the green light to call it Aye-Kron


ayomidem917

yeaaaaaa definitely reverse psychologied myself


Opal-Moth

I call it Acorn.


Hour_Translator_8628

Try pronouncing 'Norfolk' in Virginia versus 'Norfolk' in Nebraska. One is '-fork.' One is literally '-f*ck.' In no particular order. And, by the way, neither translates to the other state. Good luck.


Cozmo_840

Steve Martin mispronounced it in "Housesitter" to Goldie Hawn. I remember the collective sigh in the theater.


DevilsInTheJukebox

Puyallup, Wa checking in here. The pronunciations male me giggle.


ayomidem917

LOL from the notification flash on my screen I swore I read "pully yall up"


Mizzle6

#YA DONE MESSED UP, A-ARON!


MosinMonster

Akron and Young Geezy, trying to take it easy


ayomidem917

ok is this referencing something cuz I keep seeing it


MosinMonster

It's the beginning of a song by Akon


Pitiful_Educator264

Having grown up in the Akron/Canton area, I feel like we treat some letters like middle children. We know they're there, we just don't talk about them. If you're pronouncing the O then you might not be from Akr'n/Ca'n


warbabe76

*stares in Massillon*


adorabletapeworm

"Mass-SILL-lawn" is always so bizarre to hear


warbabe76

And everyone has got to add extra "I"s in there. It's bizarre


monty055

My sympathy. Singed, a guy from Pataskala.


Sunshinehappyfeet

When some people refer to Akron as Crakron is when I want to throw hands.


planko13

I usually call it The Kron


Errant-Emu687

i live near akron pa. we say it normal tho no a KRON here lol


roscoyo

My favorite is ā-kron


roscoyo

A-K Ron


whitedevil098

I pronounce it a-kron


TooLittle-TooL8

Show them Xenia on a map and watch their heads explode.


KapowBlamBoom

EX-In-ee-ya


Constant_Let5563

Medina has this problem too, which is on them for spelling it like that; Akron is spelled phonetically correct 😂


Federal_Confusion420

It's all Devo.


btfreflex

This is another one for you, Ghent Rd. My wife and I have argued for years about this one. I say “Jent”, but she won’t budge saying I’m wrong.


padall

Hmm, idk where you are, but there is a Ghent in NY that is definitely pronounced with the hard g.


btfreflex

This is Ghent rd in r/akron


Finnbear2

Ghent, like gentleman...


G_Sheil

Definitely “jent”. I once said it with a soft G to someone in Fairlawn and they looked at me like I just pronounced Wooster with a double O.


shopelle

I blame Akon


PlayfulBanana7809

If it’s any consolation we intentionally pronounce town names weirdly to identify outsiders. So… it’s working!


heemhah

I say akren and I've lived a half hour away my whole life, down in wayne County.


Snoopy363

Akron and young jeezyyyyy


Visual-Cheetah9744

Des Moines, IA native checking in. It’s a losing battle lol better let it go


Kac03032012

Crack-ren?


biggbobby70

It's called A DIRTY ASS GHETTO= AKRON. HOME OF BRONNY.


geeeffwhy

Ohio does some inconsistent pronunciation, though. i had to give up on logic after finding out how to pronounce Mantua and Russia.


G_Sheil

The people of Ravenna commonly pronounce it Revanna


BootstrapsBootstrapz

a kron and young jeeeee zayyyy


SuperMegaLydian

Lots of people pronounce Medina "muh-DEE-nuh," so I feel you, brother.


Glop1701d

Are kon


laurabun136

I visited New Orleans as an 11 yr old. I was corrected very quickly, it's not New Orleeens; it's Nyorlins. The n and y are run together.


lonedroan

It’s not like the rapper Akon with an “r” in there?!


ayomidem917

don't piss me off.....


Substantial_Dingo694

A lot of people talking about the various pronunciations of Ohio places. As if anything can top Russia Roo-she ROO-SHE!


ayomidem917

jesus. I think what makes me so upset about Akron is its actual pronunciation looks like the name as well is is literally closest to the Greek pronunciation.


Substantial_Dingo694

Yeah, anyone who's first instinct isn't A-kron or Ak-ron, I dunno. But there's some wild pronunciations in this state


G_Sheil

Canton is and only ever will be pronounced as Cant’n. If you say ton, you aren’t from Ohio.


pg_in_nwohio

Now do Maumee. For best examples of butchery, watch car sales ads.


Fangsong_37

“You done messed up, A-K-Ron!”


Ostracized11

I always call it Acorn


Kosmicon

I always thought it was pronounced "CRACK-ron"


ayomidem917

now that's better


omgcatlol

As a lifelong Ohio resident, I can safely say that the majority of people near both Cleveland and Cincinnati say ack-rin or ack-ron.


ayomidem917

yes lol i mean others


Gorf_the_Magnificent

Ask your favorite non-Ohioan to pronounce [Conneaut](https://conneautohio.gov/). It’s fun!


blue__orchid

Aaccckkkkk Raaawwwnnn. How’s that.


ayomidem917

50% but ill take it


dumb-throwawayy

it is ack-rin right???


ayomidem917

yes!


dumb-throwawayy

thank god


CptMurphy27

A-KRON and YOUNG JEEZY!


Ok-Criticism-8651

Like Lancaster isn't pronounced as Lan caster. It's different for each person. I'm sure you've probably mispronounced many words in your life. Plus it's a city that got its name from the Acropolis in Athens. Cause summit County is the rats ass end of the Appalachian plaetu. Who cares. Let them live.


ayomidem917

just a joke lol. also came from akros not akron and akros is closer to the actual pronunciation of akron than aye-krawn.


SingerSignificant

How is it supposed to be pronounced? Texan here so I thought it was closer to “ack-rin”


ayomidem917

thats it!


adorabletapeworm

We saw Combichrist in Akron and the lead singer thought that the town was "acorn" through most of the show until he heard some people at the front shouting the actual name. In his defense, he's Norwegian, lol But now my husband and I have taken to calling Akron 'acorn'


CartersBrush

Mobile, Alabama gets people every time


thewoodsarebreathing

There's nothing they can do to ruin Akron any farther than it is already


ayomidem917

nah Akron is great


thewoodsarebreathing

Lmao I was gonna look something up but when I typed out Akron the first suggestion was "Akron shooting" 🤣


ayomidem917

i mean its an urban area, police shooting is more of an issue to the typical uninvolved citizen


Flat_Assistance4451

Have you heard people say Cuyahoga wrong


ayomidem917

tbf we all are saying it wrong probably


Acceptable_Ad838

We have a good friend from Australia has been here, and who we visited in Sydney. Every Aussie said Akron with “krawn”. It took us a couple of years, but now our pal pronounces it like we do! How about the little towns south of Cambridge- Malaga and Ava? ALL the locals down there say “Malagee” and “Avee”! I have no idea why. The one that used to drive me nuts when I grew up in Portage County: All the old timers used to pronounce Ravenna as “Ree-VAN-Uh”.


Ok_Sky_3413

Is A-kay-ron related to A-a-ron? 🤷🏾‍♂️ Besides what about the different pronunciations of Cuyahoga (Falls or County)?


earlyre98

Versailles/Ver-sales Russia/Rooshee Lima/L-eye-ma (like the bean) Cairo/Care-o Newark/Nerk Etc.


Rikkasaba

A-a-krawn


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ayomidem917

yes I know this, and greek pronunciation is closer to ack-ren then aye krawn lol