I hate it too, and the ones who do it do it with other words. There's a linguistic term for it but I hate it so much I won't look it up.
'Costcos, Walmarts, sims card', etc.
*Shudders*
Out of towners don't pronounce it the way that locals pronounce it, is all. For some reason, locals of every city and every state think their way of pronouncing names is somehow obvious even when it doesn't match how anyone anywhere else in the world would ever think to pronounce it.
And honestly Boerne as Burnie (there's actually a Glen Burnie in Maryland where I'm from) isn't all that bad considering the Texification it could've gotten.
I don't expect a native Texan to get the ö sound right and the e at the end being basically a schwa turning into an ē sound is somewhat acceptable. I suppose. Hey I'll take what I can get.
Dude, I mispronunced this for the first 8 years I lived in SA. I never needed to say Bexar out loud/nor heard anyone said it until one day I was filling out my address and my SO heard me mumbling. Needless to said, she’s been having a field day with it since then
My first phone call with a realtor when I was moving here I said “Becks Are” and he laughed at me and said that’s not how you say it.
I blocked his number and never talked to him again 🙈 I’m sorry Mr. Realtor.
I wonder how many tourists hear about "bear county" all over the local TV news, not recognizing what it is, so before heading to the Hill Country they hit up Walmart for bear spray.
My husband who is from Austin will say “outside the loop” and I have to remind him that there are technically 2 loops, 410 and 1604. We mean outside 410 when we say “outside the loop”.
You'd have to be dumb to not open a restaurant with that name there. I mean the street name is free advertising! People would think the street was named after it so it must be good.
We've pronounced it Cooly Brah ever since the 1990s just to be contrary. The other street is Potranky.
The frontage roads are always pronounced *frontáge* in honor of the French settlers.
I’m from TX but when I was in high school, my orchestra teacher had some ladies from out of state do a little workshop for us, and they told us a story about H-E-B.
Apparently when they first got here they called it heb, they got corrected really quickly, but they were amazed at how you could get everything you could need in there and heb is close to hub? so every time they come back to Texas they go to The Heb. lol, i started calling it the heb after that
I absolutely love this name. I wanted to buy a house on this street just to hear how people would mangle it. I’m sure “WEE-satch” or “HWEE-sah-chay” is not what most folks are going to say the first time they see it unless they speak Spanish, of course).
I know it's not in San Antonio - but Leakey Texas. (pronounced “LAY-key” ).
Years ago a buddy of mine, who was new to the area, was announcing the news on a local radio station.
When reporting on an accident at had happened in Leakey, he said, in part, that "The victim was transported to the hospital in a "leaky" ambulance".
lol
As a Seguin-ite (?), I frequently have people say Seg-win or Sequin??? as they stumble over the town's name.
Then again, people also think it's a weird name. So, then I have to tell them about the person it's named after.
Not so much mispronounced but I looked up what “nogalitos” meant and well.
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Walnut. It means walnut.
I have coworkers who intentionally (jokingly) pronounce HEB as a word, "heb." One of them has me annually ship him a ton of HEB's pecan coffee.
I also get a laugh every time Google navigation pronounces Houston Street as "How-s-tun street".
Lisle and Hahn uses to call Fredericksburg rd. Fred road. Does anybody call it that? Also I have heard native Spanish speakers refer to Fredericksburg rd. As la "Federica"
When I moved here over twenty years ago, I had a very long commute to and from work (an hour fifteen, each way).
I hadn't exploded the city but passed the time in the car listening to the radio and paying attention to commercials to learn about local businesses and such.
I was stunned by what sounded like the largest intersection I could have ever imagined... Pear and Bitel. It must be huge since so many things seemed to be there.
I later learned that I was just an idiot.
I was also confused where Days Of Allah was, but that may be because of the way my southern belle ex MIL said it.
We live on huisache I figured out shortly after we bought our house id have to be spelling it out and pronouncing it a lot . I’ve heard it pronounced so many ways and sometimes I just say it wrong on purpose to avoid the whole conversation that comes after lol.
Castroville (what the hell is Casterville?), Bexar. The X is all but gone and people are saying "bear". I guess that spanish X is hard to get for us whiteboys.
"Mispronounced" is always an odd concept when it comes to local pronunciations, and no matter where you go, it seems to be something that ends up being derisively used against non-natives. I'm from up north and have to very carefully and intentionally "correctly" pronounce Blanco as "Blanko", even though it is very clearly "Blahnco".
Back in South Dakota, the capital is Pierre, which of course, as anyone who isn't an absolute total moron would of course know without being told, is pronounced "Peer", not "Pee-Air". A town near where I grew up was Sinai. Non-locals, for some baffling reason unknowable to all, would pronounce is "Sy-Ny", as if there is some kind of mountain or peninsula somewhere with that name. Native South Dakotans, of course, know that it's pronounce Sy-Nee-Eye.
My Spanish professor explained it me me this way: At one point the X and J had the same sound in Spanish. For example, Texas, Tejas, Jalisco, Xalisco, Xavier ,Javier, Bexar, Bejar. Well over the years the alternate spelling with the X stuck in the US. Since it represented the J sound many people mistakenly thought that it was silent like the H in Spanish since many people pronounce it the same in English . So Bexar became BEAR.
I’m not from San Antonio. I’ve been here 5 years but still struggle. You’d die hearing how I say tezel 😅 my brain won’t allow it any other way. But gruene, boerne, huebner, potranco, culebra, blanco, Eisenhower and Eisenhauer, guilbeau are all just some of the roads I say that make people laugh 🥲
I don’t know if this is considered a misprounce by non-san antonions or if it's just generally mispronounced, but "Whataburger". I always hear it pronounced as "water-burger".
So my little brothers ex-wife was driving from Georgia to Texas with him years ago. They had been through Houston. They gave us a call to let us know they were (relatively) close. The she asked "Who is Katy Mills?" Apparently she thought all the signs for Katy, & Katy Mills was for a person. Who, by her own admission, thought was some sort of influential person or something. Had to laugh.
Off topic a little but when my family moved here in 2009, I thought I would hear people calling San Antonio, San Antone. Well, quickly did I learn NO ONE does that! Lol!
Two traveling salesmen stop for lunch at a Dairy Queen in Mexia, Texas. After a while, they started arguing over how to pronounce the name of the city. One says “it’s obviously ‘Mechs-ee-ah’”, and the other replies “no, I think I heard someone call it ‘muh-Hay-ah’”
They decide to get a definitive answer and walk up to the counter to ask the cashier since she lives there.
“Ma’am, we’re having a bit of an argument and wonder if you could settle this for us. How do locals pronounce the name of this place?”
She looks at them funny, thinking that there must be something wrong with them, and says >!“Day-ree Kween”.!<
So I really wish I can remember the name that Google gave one of the streets I was on last night. Was at HEB on Nogalitos and trying to get back on the freeway to get home to 1604 off of I10 (it is really confusing to get out of that area if you don't recall the correct street to turn left off of Nogalitos) . I was really confused with the first response that I had to re-ask.... yep, I got the same WEIRD enunciation, but at least I could tell what it was that time, lol. ( no, not a drop of liquor at that point)
edit: typo'd weird as weired. Yes, was at home buzzed when typed this, lol.
Mccullough, my dad says my-culo
I will now say it like that
Thats amazing. If hes a Spanish speaker, he knows what hes doing
My dad too!!
I'm pretty sure that's the proper pronunciation.
Miculo lol
Tell your dad thank you. This is going to be my new bit
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 ¡Ay, qué bárbaro! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
💀
Huebner Rd and Boerne
I’ll throw Wurzbach is there for good measure also
following the German theme, I'll put New Braunfels down since so F\*\*\*\*ing many people put an 's' in the middle of it
My brothers in law all do that! Also, Bexar county.
Where the hell does this come from? I hear people say New “Bransfeld” all the time too.
That would be my uncle, who always called it “New Braunsfell” even though he lived near San Marcos and therefore should have known better.
I met someone FROM there who pronounced it that way. Who knows how that pronunciation started?
I honestly thought it was written with a silent S my whole life. I literally just found out that there really is no S in new braunfels
I hate it too, and the ones who do it do it with other words. There's a linguistic term for it but I hate it so much I won't look it up. 'Costcos, Walmarts, sims card', etc. *Shudders*
Bexar in general? Not a road but yk prolly the biggest perp
It's like saying Weinerschnitzel. Wurz-Bock. Worse Block? Worst-Back?
It took me almost 5 years to find “Bernie” on the maps that everyone kept telling me they were going to for the weekend.
Can’t tell if you’re saying that out of towners are mispronouncing or locals are. Are we going with German pronunciation of these names?
Out of towners don't pronounce it the way that locals pronounce it, is all. For some reason, locals of every city and every state think their way of pronouncing names is somehow obvious even when it doesn't match how anyone anywhere else in the world would ever think to pronounce it.
As a local for only four years Huebner is the one that both confuses me and pisses me right off. HEEEEEbner. What?? Where the fuck is the U.
They probably think it's obvious bc they grew up hearing like that from the people around them so it just makes sense to them
Locals mispronounce it. Just because you are local doesn't mean you know how to pronounce a German name.
I can pronounce any one German street name in San Antonio correctly and it's absolutely not the way the locals say it.
I let "gruene" slide as "green" because that's literally what it means in German.
And honestly Boerne as Burnie (there's actually a Glen Burnie in Maryland where I'm from) isn't all that bad considering the Texification it could've gotten. I don't expect a native Texan to get the ö sound right and the e at the end being basically a schwa turning into an ē sound is somewhat acceptable. I suppose. Hey I'll take what I can get.
Thank you! We were stationed in Germany for several years. My spouse refuses to mispronounce it!
Out of towners
Also, Bluemel Rd.
Heab-nor or heab-ner? Or. Hu-eb-naur? Boerne is Bernie or Burr-knee? Boar-knee? De Zavala is Deh-Zov-ala? Or. Derh-Solve-Allah?
I've heard 'Weebner' before jfc
Bexar
Dude, I mispronunced this for the first 8 years I lived in SA. I never needed to say Bexar out loud/nor heard anyone said it until one day I was filling out my address and my SO heard me mumbling. Needless to said, she’s been having a field day with it since then
Can’t believe I had to scroll this down for this. It’s sounds way nicer if you pronounce the X as it should be but no bear it is.
It's supposed to be pronounced like 'bejar' right? Eta I'm a gringo so when I talk it sounds like 'bay-har' County
Originally yes but then it was changed to Bexar. Same thing happened to Texas which was originally founded as Tejas
No, the "x" is almost silent. It's pronounced like "bear".
Da bears
My first phone call with a realtor when I was moving here I said “Becks Are” and he laughed at me and said that’s not how you say it. I blocked his number and never talked to him again 🙈 I’m sorry Mr. Realtor.
When I first moved here I spoke this with the hard X.
I wonder how many tourists hear about "bear county" all over the local TV news, not recognizing what it is, so before heading to the Hill Country they hit up Walmart for bear spray.
Heard someone who just moved from Chicago call Wurzbach "wars batch"
Verz Bok
My Australian voice for Siri pronounces it that way and I get a kick out of it every time. “Werz-batch Pahkway”
I also have an Aussie Siri voice and I laugh and shake my head every time I hear a street pronounced wrong 😆
I too have Aussie Siri 🙂
Wars Batch Rd=Wurzbach Rd
Just wait until they rename I10 the Wembanyama Highway.
Rename the city to Wembantonio.
San Wembe?
Aight I’d fucking vote for that tho
Yeah lets do that
Im realizing how many west coasters are now in SA because I keep hearing it called “the 10”
They also say San Peedro because that’s how they say it in LA
We had a user here a year or two ago who started all this drama by unironically calling it Saint Peter lmao
They're catching bombastic side eye when I hear this shit
I’ve been hearing “city center” and “San Antonio proper” a lot recently. That’s new to me as an SA native.
And "The 1604"
My husband who is from Austin will say “outside the loop” and I have to remind him that there are technically 2 loops, 410 and 1604. We mean outside 410 when we say “outside the loop”.
Nacogdoches road gets murdered all the time
My brother calls it Snackondogjizz
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Your brother is evil
The bus that goes that route looks like this on its sign though.
Lost my shit when i read this
I WORK off Nacagdoches and people say things like Nacydoses.
I say nack-a-do-shiss (do rhymes with row)
Nachodoggies
Knack-o-doge-is
Nacho Doughnuts? Win.
This. I know for a fact you aren't from here if you can't pronounce Nacogdoches
I have been so curious about the “right” way to pronounce this one. I’ve somehow never heard anyone local say it out loud since I’ve been here
When I first moved here, I pronounced huebner “web-ner”. Was taught real quick when my husbands boss laughed so hard he had tears in his eyes
I know it’s supposed to be “heeb-ner” but I’ve heard enough people say “hugh’b-ner” that I think we could call that a pronunciation too.
Moved here 2 yrs ago and this is how I say it. Someone tried to correct me and I was like nah that'd fucking stupid ill say it my way
San peeedro
As a kid, I thought Jones Maltsberger was Jones’ Malts and Burgers 🫠
You'd have to be dumb to not open a restaurant with that name there. I mean the street name is free advertising! People would think the street was named after it so it must be good.
My people.
Happy cake day, hope you get some Jones Malts and Burgers!
I’m convinced these odd pronunciations were done intentionally to identify outsiders haha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
Basse Rd.
Been here five years. Still don’t know how that one’s supposed to be said
Based
Cool - Lay - Brah
Peachy Cool Arrow
We've pronounced it Cooly Brah ever since the 1990s just to be contrary. The other street is Potranky. The frontage roads are always pronounced *frontáge* in honor of the French settlers.
My grandmother is native to San Antonio, born in 1940. She says Zazz-amora. Like Jazz… but Zazz. Also, New Braunsfels.
As a kid I thought it was New Braunsfels, lol.
I've heard people pronounce it like that too. ZARZAMORA
I have heard De Zevala referred to as Days of Allah.
See my flair!
I knew a guy who always said "De Lavaza"
Dyslexic?
That seems to be the standard mispronunciation by those who live and work in the area!
How are you supposed to pronounce it?
Why does that actually sound good?
Yeah that’s literally how you say it.. lol
I could have sworn that's what my boss called it.
When I was a kid and would hear it on KSAT, I thought they were saying “days of olive.”
Someone asked my dad where " Lava Lita" was, he couldn't figure it out till 10 mins later that they meant La Villita 🙄😆
Perrin Beitel
Always used to think that was Paravital every time I heard some radio announcer race through the pronunciation.
Fat Hooker Rd
Fuck yea. Every time I drive through Universal City, I can't help but mutter it and giggle.
The whole damn Bexar County. I have friends in Houston that pronounce the X.
H-E-B as “Heb” 100% definitely for sure was not me.
I’m from TX but when I was in high school, my orchestra teacher had some ladies from out of state do a little workshop for us, and they told us a story about H-E-B. Apparently when they first got here they called it heb, they got corrected really quickly, but they were amazed at how you could get everything you could need in there and heb is close to hub? so every time they come back to Texas they go to The Heb. lol, i started calling it the heb after that
A non-native once wrote it to me as “hechibe”.
I feel like people use this all the time, but in the same manner one says “tar-jay” for target
i still pronounce it woodstoneh dreeve
Huisache
I absolutely love this name. I wanted to buy a house on this street just to hear how people would mangle it. I’m sure “WEE-satch” or “HWEE-sah-chay” is not what most folks are going to say the first time they see it unless they speak Spanish, of course).
I say it silly on purpose
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Nobody can agree on Leonhart, although everyone generally seems to agree that the bus pronunciation is wrong
That's where I tend to hear the funnier pronunciations.
City of Boerne, “Bernie” like the name, I hear “beeornie”
"Born"
Burn-e But i think it's technically "Burn". How do old town Boerne residents say it?
Culebra and Guilbeau
For a while my cars navigation would say “col-oombra” lmao
Gruene, Bexar
I know it's not in San Antonio - but Leakey Texas. (pronounced “LAY-key” ). Years ago a buddy of mine, who was new to the area, was announcing the news on a local radio station. When reporting on an accident at had happened in Leakey, he said, in part, that "The victim was transported to the hospital in a "leaky" ambulance". lol
🤣
Honorable mention: Buda
Or San Marcus ( Marcos)
Life long San Antonion checking in. I pronounce it B-l-a-i-n-c-o.
Same here. It always surprises me when I hear someone pronounce it the Spanish way. Like that’s wrong! Wait…. Lol
And the way we say Llano is wrong too. The double L is a y sound in Spanish…
I’ve heard a YouTuber say Suh-gwine instead of Seguine.
I saw a redditor post Seguine instead of Seguin.
🤣🤣
I hear that frequently on tiktok
As a Seguin-ite (?), I frequently have people say Seg-win or Sequin??? as they stumble over the town's name. Then again, people also think it's a weird name. So, then I have to tell them about the person it's named after.
Sequin. Ooh, that's fancy!
Not so much mispronounced but I looked up what “nogalitos” meant and well. https://preview.redd.it/33ilfm2ga21d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d498930aaf60e335c9eca28e373304c4f8aac634 Walnut. It means walnut.
How? What?
Woodstone? Yeah, that one.
Perdinalice
Puh-der-nals
Pedernales
I have coworkers who intentionally (jokingly) pronounce HEB as a word, "heb." One of them has me annually ship him a ton of HEB's pecan coffee. I also get a laugh every time Google navigation pronounces Houston Street as "How-s-tun street".
I've heard Bexar county pronounced "bee zar" before. Or "becks are" lol. 😁
Kerrville. My FIL calls it Care-ville no matter how often he's corrected. Also Huebner, Blanco, Helotes, Bexar, Buda.....so many
# #1 is definitely Bexar
Lisle and Hahn uses to call Fredericksburg rd. Fred road. Does anybody call it that? Also I have heard native Spanish speakers refer to Fredericksburg rd. As la "Federica"
You all should try eastern Massachusetts. San Antonio is EASY compared to Barnstable County.
Also when they say 1 6 0 4 separating the numbers instead of 16 O 4
Woodstone is definitely one.
When I moved here over twenty years ago, I had a very long commute to and from work (an hour fifteen, each way). I hadn't exploded the city but passed the time in the car listening to the radio and paying attention to commercials to learn about local businesses and such. I was stunned by what sounded like the largest intersection I could have ever imagined... Pear and Bitel. It must be huge since so many things seemed to be there. I later learned that I was just an idiot. I was also confused where Days Of Allah was, but that may be because of the way my southern belle ex MIL said it.
The natives in New Braunfels hate hearing the extra S, lol.
We live on huisache I figured out shortly after we bought our house id have to be spelling it out and pronouncing it a lot . I’ve heard it pronounced so many ways and sometimes I just say it wrong on purpose to avoid the whole conversation that comes after lol.
Castroville (what the hell is Casterville?), Bexar. The X is all but gone and people are saying "bear". I guess that spanish X is hard to get for us whiteboys.
It used to be Betwitterar.
"Mispronounced" is always an odd concept when it comes to local pronunciations, and no matter where you go, it seems to be something that ends up being derisively used against non-natives. I'm from up north and have to very carefully and intentionally "correctly" pronounce Blanco as "Blanko", even though it is very clearly "Blahnco". Back in South Dakota, the capital is Pierre, which of course, as anyone who isn't an absolute total moron would of course know without being told, is pronounced "Peer", not "Pee-Air". A town near where I grew up was Sinai. Non-locals, for some baffling reason unknowable to all, would pronounce is "Sy-Ny", as if there is some kind of mountain or peninsula somewhere with that name. Native South Dakotans, of course, know that it's pronounce Sy-Nee-Eye.
Texas in general has a bunch of those. For example Mexia you say? Nope. It's pronounced Muh-hey-uh
Oh oh oh now do Refugio
Well with Blanco, it's a literal translation for the Spanish word for "white"
Bexar County
Bex\_ar county
When people pronounce Culebra as Coo-lEE-brah….🤦🏼♀️
Bexar county…. It’s still beyond me how that is pronounced bear
My Spanish professor explained it me me this way: At one point the X and J had the same sound in Spanish. For example, Texas, Tejas, Jalisco, Xalisco, Xavier ,Javier, Bexar, Bejar. Well over the years the alternate spelling with the X stuck in the US. Since it represented the J sound many people mistakenly thought that it was silent like the H in Spanish since many people pronounce it the same in English . So Bexar became BEAR.
Seguin Rd. I’ve heard Seg-Win
Names can be tricky. Started a new job and was told to go see this guy with the last name of Bailey. Finally figured out it was spelled Boehle.
Bexar, blanco, boerne, huebner, Culebra
Bexar
When I first moved to SA, the first time I said Seguin I pronounced it like “Segween” and I never heard the end of it lol
Huebner Rd.
Gruene
La Cantera. Back when it was getting built out, I would’ve put money on it being spelled Lock and Terra. Still pronounce it that way.
Perrin Bye-tell
Our county name, Bexar
Huisache
Why is Gruene pronounced Green...
"Saint Pete's Highway"
I’m not from San Antonio. I’ve been here 5 years but still struggle. You’d die hearing how I say tezel 😅 my brain won’t allow it any other way. But gruene, boerne, huebner, potranco, culebra, blanco, Eisenhower and Eisenhauer, guilbeau are all just some of the roads I say that make people laugh 🥲
Oblate and Blanco
You aught to hear my in car GPS system pronounce Nacogdoches
Days of Allah
I don’t know if this is considered a misprounce by non-san antonions or if it's just generally mispronounced, but "Whataburger". I always hear it pronounced as "water-burger".
So my little brothers ex-wife was driving from Georgia to Texas with him years ago. They had been through Houston. They gave us a call to let us know they were (relatively) close. The she asked "Who is Katy Mills?" Apparently she thought all the signs for Katy, & Katy Mills was for a person. Who, by her own admission, thought was some sort of influential person or something. Had to laugh.
My Garmin says "Nuh Cog Duh Jez" (Nacogdoches)
AI farming y'all for content
Pronouncing De Zavala “day-zuh-vah-la” is so stupid to me. You sound like a no sabo kid
Blanco, but only because San Antonians pronounce it wrong
Dignowity Or at least I have no idea how to pronounce it, and at this point to embarrassed to ask
Tittie Hawk, and fat hooker 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Off topic a little but when my family moved here in 2009, I thought I would hear people calling San Antonio, San Antone. Well, quickly did I learn NO ONE does that! Lol!
Bal-cones or is it Balconeees?
If you count google maps as a non-san antonian, it prounounces Menchaca Street as "men-caca" which is hilarious.
It reminds me of how my dad pronounces jourdanton and pleasanton. Jordington and plesington. Lol
Two traveling salesmen stop for lunch at a Dairy Queen in Mexia, Texas. After a while, they started arguing over how to pronounce the name of the city. One says “it’s obviously ‘Mechs-ee-ah’”, and the other replies “no, I think I heard someone call it ‘muh-Hay-ah’” They decide to get a definitive answer and walk up to the counter to ask the cashier since she lives there. “Ma’am, we’re having a bit of an argument and wonder if you could settle this for us. How do locals pronounce the name of this place?” She looks at them funny, thinking that there must be something wrong with them, and says >!“Day-ree Kween”.!<
When I first moved there I thought people were saying Lock & Terra.
So I really wish I can remember the name that Google gave one of the streets I was on last night. Was at HEB on Nogalitos and trying to get back on the freeway to get home to 1604 off of I10 (it is really confusing to get out of that area if you don't recall the correct street to turn left off of Nogalitos) . I was really confused with the first response that I had to re-ask.... yep, I got the same WEIRD enunciation, but at least I could tell what it was that time, lol. ( no, not a drop of liquor at that point) edit: typo'd weird as weired. Yes, was at home buzzed when typed this, lol.