How do u pronounce louisville

For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Pronunciation: Louisville Kentucky. Thread starter ddubug Start date Sep 9, Somebody says, 'Louisville The town in KY ' is pronounced 'luivil' It is right? Hello Ddubug. I used to have a friend who once lived in that town and assured me it was pronounced loo-uh-vill by the natives.

But you might like to wait for an AE-speaker to confirm that. There is a company that makes baseball bats known as Louisville Sluggers, and I have always heard it pronounced as "Loo-ee-vil". I had always assumed that the name of the city is pronounced the same way. You will here different inflections depending upon the regional influence on the speaker, but never will you hear "lewis-ville.

It depends on which side of Louisville you're from. But definitely not "looey-ville". Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. StoneyB on hiatus StoneyB on hiatus Not all residents have a southern accent. I just look it up in the Character Viewer. JanusBahsJacquet Thank you. I didn't know about the combining characters.

And seems to me that for most folks in Tennessee and Kentucky -ville is pronunced with markedly less stress than elsewhere, and with a vowel reduced however far you can manage. Show 2 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

If lazy talk annoys you that much, and you are too dense to infer intelligence from somebody's nonverbal cues as much as their grasp of linguistic intricacies, then brother ya ought to head on up to some place like Wisconsin or Canada where you can bust a blood vessel making sure ea-ch sy-lla-ble gets com-plete con-cen-tra-tion or otherwise be misunderstood.

As much as yall try to separate yourselves from the rest of the Commonwealth save Derby weekend of course, when y'all try to do your best Foghorn Leghorn you're still a part of Kentucky, and should try to take in a little of the culture rather than try to blindly steer a state's image in fear of being embarrassed in front of the rest of the country.

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