Hawaii can’t fit woman’s last name on license

Associated Press ^ | Sep 13, 2013 3:53 PM EDT | Audrey McAvoy

[Olog-hai]

A Hawaii woman

[Dr. Sivana]

Turns out it was Sabine so told her that now she was in Texas she needs to pronounce it “Sah bean”.

You should hear how the New Yorkers say "Houston".

[colorcountry]

That’s my maiden name, it is Scottish and I say it just like they do in New York AND Georgia. It’s the Texans who say it wrong...4....3...2...1...

[PLMerite]

That’s not as bad as a face that won’t fit in the frame.

[soycd]

I believe Ed Sanders is trying to pronounce it at the beginning of this song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-G4SOGsLpc

[cincinnati65]

"Looks like they blurred out the "Sex" but I think it could be figured out....ya think?"

I don't know. Has she decided yet? It is Hawaii, you know.

[Grams A]

You should hear how the New Yorkers say “Houston”. “

Well, bless their hearts they can’t help it if they don’t know how to pronounce things correctly. Probably because they never learned how to spell. OTOH they probably don’t want to hear how we Texans say New York.

Always amazes me that most people pronounce both the first and last name of Whitney Houston correctly but when it comes to pronouncing our city, not so much.

Funniest one I heard - we have a huge cafeteria chain called Luby’s (Loo bees). Gal who moved here from Wisconsin was talking about going to Lub ee’s for lunch. We were rolling on the floor.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Hey, they've done it before.

[Dr. Sivana]

Always amazes me that most people pronounce both the first and last name of Whitney Houston correctly but when it comes to pronouncing our city, not so much.

On the NYers side, Houston Street, NY, was pronounced Hows-ten for over 25 years before the founding of the city of Houston, TX.

On the other hand, the spelling is a corruption of the original Scottish name (Houstoun).

Regarding Wisconsin, midwesterners seem to willingly and methodically adapt the names of existing cities, purposely changing pronunciation. Lima, Ohio; Genoa, Illinois; and Oregon in both Illinois and Wisconsin are examples. It really hurts my ears every time I hear the stress put on the long O in Genoa, Illinois. The real problem comes when they apply the same pronunciation to a perfectly innocent salami.

[Grams A]

That’s funny - thanks for the education.

My son went to college at the University of Kansas. Three of his housemates were from Chicago. He did pick up some of their dialect and every now and then it pops up - like cur for car. One of my past bosses when I worked in Lake Charles, Louisiana, had lived his entire life in Cajun country. Took forever before I could understand him - and the buy you is only blue in Louisiana, in Texas it’s buy oh - Cajun versus CW.

[dfwgator]

Obviously that's a fake Hawaiian DL....This is the real one.

[Revolting cat!]

However, unlike most of us, she can safely use her last name as her computer password. What hacker would bother? What Nigerian schemer would fall for it?

[Raymann]

In lake Charles now, I know a guy from up north trying to tell another guy directions to the airport. Told the guy to go down “gay-the-er” drive. I burst out laughing and corrected him. The street is spelled Gauthier, pronounced “Go-ché”

[Grams A]

That is tooooo funny. In the early 1980’s moved from Kansas to Lake Charles - talk about culture shock. I knew better than to try to pronounce anything for quite a while.

[a fool in paradise]

I offered to give a woman something long and hard last night. My last name!

[a fool in paradise]

There ain’t no HOUSE in Houston!

[Dr. Sivana]

There is no HUE in Houston, either.

[colorcountry]

In Scotland a house is pronounced hoos, and Houston is pronounced as hooston.

So properly you could call is Hooston, or HOUSeton, but nowhere should you be calling it HUEston.

[a fool in paradise]

It is “HUE” (or HUGH)

http://www.houseofnames.com/houston-family-crest

[a fool in paradise]