Michigan Towns.... pronounce like a local

[JerryK]

Michigan towns, or, how to talk Michiganian ....

LARA - Pronunciation Guide - 'You Say it How in Michigan?' for Michigan Names and Places

 

[cqaigy2]

This one is wrong.
Sebewaing (SIB-ə-wing)

See bəwing

 

[JerryK]

You probably drank too much [ or not enough ] Sebewaing beer...

 

[coobie]

Michigan towns, or, how to talk Michiganian ....

LARA - Pronunciation Guide - 'You Say it How in Michigan?' for Michigan Names and Places

Jerome= JAROME

 

[tractorshopper]

The part of MI I grew up in called everything Crick instead of Creek.

 

[JerryK]

I had an Uncle born and raised in Michigan always say Pony ack instead of Pontiac... but maybe he was just doing that to pull my Dad's chain.....

 

[tractorshopper]

Also where I grew up, Huron was pronounced more like Hyeron than Hyooron as in that sheet. I can attest to that for sure. I was born in Port Huron. Grew up in Croswell. Spent lots of time in/around Lake Huron.

 

[HillStreet]

Some of the best years of my life were spent in Sault Ste Marie. I was stationed there from '71 to '74 in USAF. I went back this past September to reminisce and look over the whole area. I don't think it changed a great deal in 45 years. It is a wonderful place.

 

[JerryK]

Some of the best years of my life were spent in Sault Ste Marie. I was stationed there from '71 to '74 in USAF. I went back this past September to reminisce and look over the whole area. I don't think it changed a great deal in 45 years. It is a wonderful place.

They just shut down the locks for the winter a few days ago, be open again in March..... Everytime I go up that way I see a lot of young girls pushing baby carriages around, I think it is the local pastime....

 

[TSO]

My family's farm is up in Sebewaing... I've only ever heard it as "See-ba-wing".

Last summer we stopped in Charlotte Michigan ... The locals there pronounced it "Shar-lot" which surprised me.

My mom's family have been here for a few generations. I don't know exactly where they got it from but they have a very slight drawl and pronounce Wash as "worsh" as in "worship". So a washing machine is a "worshing" machine. Could be just my family tho LOL.