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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
We have a major thoroughfare here called San Felipe. A large number of the local population calls it San Phillip-ee. Grates on my nerves every single time I hear it that way. I've taken to pretending that I don't know what they're talking about until they pronounce it correctly.
I have issues with Houston street in New York too.
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THE most grating, bar none, is Goethe St. in Chicago.
The locals pronounce it "Gurdy."
If every there was proof that Chicago is really part of Greater Kansas.