“Bois D’arc”
Here in Texas we say “Bow-dark”.
Bwah....hahaha
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“Bois D’arc”
Here in Texas we say “Bow-dark”.
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LOL!
Absolutely true!
And furthermore, “Baton Rouge” (meaning “Red Stick”)
is pronounced where I come from as
“Batton” -( rhymes with “Patton”)
“Rouge” = “Roodge” (ending sound dge sounds like the dge in “bridge”)
This is fun! We could probably turn this into an epic slide! “How we Americanized foreign language names!”
And even some names’ pronunciation are very obvious - except to the locals.
We know about the state of Arkansas and the Arkansas River.
It is pronounced by most as “ARK’ -kan - saw”
However, if you go to a town in the southern part of Kansas, called “Arkansas City,” you are revealed and disdained as a foreigner if you dare to call the town
“ARK’ -kan - saw” City.
And how would a poor foreigner from Oklahoma or Texas, or Colorado, or even Arkansas know?....The locals call it:
“Ark-KAN’- sas City”
They say it like the normal pronunciation of “Kansas” except they’ve put an “Ark” in front of it!
Strangely enough, the Arkansas River, WHICH FLOWS PAST ARKANSAS CITY is pronounced like the rest of us would pronounce it, as
“ARK’ -kan - saw” River.
And so they have a pronunciation split personality. Most curious. There they are living on the very banks of the “ARK’- Kan - saw River”, living in a town called “Ark-KAN-sas City.”
I’ve been trying to figure that one out for quite some time! LOL! Great people there, though! ..... just be sure to “Say It Right!”
Bow as in Bo Derek ? or
Bow as in bend from the waist ?
My daughter married a texan and lives in texas and I still don’t have the texas dictionary...It’s kinda like Klingon...
That’s the same as the one in Missouri. I guessed Bose Dark.
Bois D’Arc is a type of tree native to N. Texas. It is a nasty tree, with big green sticky seed pods that are the size of cantaloupes. We called them monkey brains when I was a kid. Bow Darks also have big thorns and the wood is hard as steel. Most of the trees that you see still standing in area lakes are Bo Darks.