I definitely was hoping they’d get some Native American towns/cities. There’s so many I can’t even pretend to pronounce 😂

Fun fact: one of the zip codes for Schenectady, New York, is 12345.

"Zzyzx" sounds like the name of a heartburn medication.

“It’s like someone mashed the keyboard.” Welsh: hold my tea

It's funny he first pronounced Pflugerville with the P, because that's a joke sometimes here in Austin. Especially when they have their Pflugerville Pfireworks Pfestival at the Pflugerville Pfield (I wish I was joking)

How is nobody talking about Glenelg being a pallendrome?!

Within thirty seconds, one woman says "shneck daddy" and a dude guesses "snake titty". This is brilliant.

Brits: "Glenelg" where did the "g" go? Me: "Worcester".

A lot of the city names in America are derived from Native Americans.

“What’s the point of having the G if you aren’t going to use it?” That’s how I feel about most of the English language. It’s infuriating.

“I feel like Lafayette is a place you’d want to go to a bed and breakfast” *Laughs in Louisiana*

when talking about zzyzx california the girl said "you know thats kind of a hot name for a place not gonna lie" well she's right, literally. the town is in the mojave dessert and is one of the hottest places on earth. during the summer time has reached temperatures of 130 degrees (54.4 celsius) one of the hottest air temperatures ever recorded anywhere on the earth.

From the people who brought you "Worcestershire."

Disappointed they didn’t pick one of the MANY towns in Washington that is named after Native tribes...

"wheres the g gone?" bold words coming from a place that spells 'lester' as liecester

Only out-of-towners call it "Boizee." We pronounce the 'S' here!

It's actually pronounced "Seattle".

British people pronouncing American city names... Americans: How the hell do you say that name???

I'm also surprised they didn't give them Poughkeepsie. 😆

Sorry Buzzfeed, but any Kentuckian knows Louisville is pronounced "Loo-vill."

As someone from Lafayette, LA...we do not say it that way...we say “Lah-fee-yet” or “Laugh-ee-yet”. Pretty sure it’s the same in Indiana. Only “Lah-fah-yet” in French, usually. :)

I love hearing the people from whom we got Worcestershire ask, "Why is that letter there if you're not going to say it?"

Sitting here in Utah with Tooele (too-will-uh), Duchesne (doo-shane), and Mantua (man-oo-way)... lmao 🤣

Tom's really good in the game😆.Like how he knew diff language where the words are possibly derived from.

I’m American and when I saw “Zzyzx” I thought, that can’t be real. Lol. 😅 guess it was real, but when you hear the pronunciation it sounds kind of cool.

As a Louisvillian, while “Loo-ih-vill” as they said it in the “correct” pronunciation is technically acceptable, anyone from here will tell you, it’s Loo-vull or Loo-uh-vull!!

Got a giggle from this watching it from Pflugerville, Tx. For the person who wondered, yes, it's quite pretty, being right up against Austin. Lots of trees.

Wasn't there some old joke about British pronunciations like "It's spelled G-R-O-S-V-E-N-O-R and pronounced 'Chumley'?"

I can't believe they didn't attempt anything like Schuykill or Oconomowoc.

Ok that Louisville one wasn’t fair. Even within Kentucky we have two pronunciations. Like I say it like I’ve got a mouth full of marshmallows but others will still say pronounce it “looey-ville”.

Schenectady is a Mohawk word that means “beyond the pines”.

Other fun Indiana towns: Versailles = ver-sales; Vevay = veevee; Loogootee = low-go-tee; Monticello = mon-tuh-sell-o. I used to travel with my dad on summer break. We’ve done a number on every language out there.

To be fair, we Americans don’t even know how to pronounce most of these names.

America, I am *confusion* America *EXPLAIN*

I grew up in RI close to Worcester, MA. One of the funniest things when driving around with friends visiting from other parts of the country was asking them to read road signs with "Worcester" written on it. When I did it to my friends from England the response was always "Get your own names Yanks" 😀

Zzyzx is a town you pass when you are driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The guy who named the town wanted it to be the last town in the alphabet.

Here in Michigan we have Ypsilanti, Dowagiac, Ludington, L'Anse, Sault Sainte Marie, St. Ignace, and Mackinac Island.

I was expecting more Native American place names :/

I’m American, and even I pronounce some of these wrong. I’ve never even heard of Glenelg or Zzyzx.

"Glenelg" was just revenge on you lot for droppin' all them T's, innitt? :D

You should have included towns with more Native American origin names. They will really be confused! 😂

Where's the 'g' gone, say people who pronounce "Leicester" as "Lester". ;)

Well done!! You are all good at this!!

Try some Louisiana places: Tchefunte, Tchoupitoulas, Marigny, St. Amant, Caliope(nope, not that way-the New Orleans way), Freret Street, Atchafalaya, Carrollton, Theriot, Opelousas, Kaliste Saloom Road, and my favorite Natchitoches, Louisiana versus Nacogodoches, Texas.

I finally know how to say Zzyzx after seeing the sign a million times on my way to Vegas

i’m surprised there wasn’t any long island town names in this vid. it definitely would’ve been entertaining to watch someone try to pronounce Ronkonkoma and Aquebogue lmaooo

"Mmm no." That made me laugh out loud.

There are some really difficult city names in Michigan if you do another part to this video or make it a series.

Tom: America, I'm gonna need you to try a bit harder with your place names, because I got it *2 seconds later* Zzyzx: Your wish is my command

Being Brits, they should know the Beatles song lyric, "Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass"

Oh please do one of specifically how Tennesseans pronounce our town names. It even throws off other Americans, even fellow southerners. From our shortening of names like Shelbyville sounding like Shebvul and Murfreesboro like Murfsburuh, our unique spin on common names where we pronounce a hard E in Santa Fe (instead of sounding like Santa Fay) or putting the emphasis differently in Lafayette where it's LaFAYette, to some of our more fun spelled names like Chattanooga, Hohenwald, Ocoee, Ooltewah, Culleoka, and Tullahoma. Love y'all!

The dude who said that Schenectady sounded like a rash was spot on. LOL

Recommendation: Try to pronounce cities in Oklahoma. Examples; Poteau, Chickasaw, Tahlequah, Nuyaka, Weleetka, etc. As a Native American myself, I can recognize that some of these are WILD.

Really thought Poughkeepsie, NY was going to be on here.

I live in Maryland and I definitely been pronouncing it as “GlenelG” 💀

Some Kentucky folks with heavier accents pronounce the "ville" part in Louisville as "vull" with the inflection more in the back of the throat. So the pronunciation turns into "Loo-uh-vull." Where I live (about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, PA) we have an elementary school named Lafayette which our regional accent turns into "Lawfee-ette."

British creates a town's name : That's it, that's York America creates a town's name : Hmm just gonna add New into it, voila, New York 🤣🤣

Originally, I'm from Charlevoix. A lot of our towns (in Michigan) are French and Native America.

FYI: When we take town names from other languages, we MANGLE them. Don't go "oh, that's French" because there's no WAY those Americans use the French pronunciation.

Also, within 10 miles of me, there are the towns of Steilacoom (STILL-a-kum) and Puyallup (pew-AL-up). We've got a lot of places that aren't pronounced the way they're written.

There's a Glenelg in Scotland too, near the Isle of Skye.

“I’ve got Schenectady on my foot.” 🤣😂🤣😂

Hahahaha I’m from kingston NY about an hour from Schenectady, this was hilarious!

Zzyzx actually exists. I drove from L.A to Las Vegas and saw the road sign - it's out in the desert. Always wondered how it was pronounced until I listened to an audiobook that took place partly in Zzyzx.

As a Kentuckian born and raised, I am so disappointed in the “correct” pronunciation of Louisville.

"I believe it's actually pronounced Seattle" 🤣😂

New Jersey's got a lot of indigenous city, town, creek, lake, river etc. names. Notable among them are Hopatcong, Lopatcong, Netcong, Patcong, and Pohatcong, plus the similar Lockatong Creek and Luppatatong Creek. Near me, containing a train station I've been to, or just a place I've personally been to include Communipaw (in Jersey City), Hackensack, Hoboken, Ho-Ho-Kus, Metuchen, Paramus, Passaic, Rahway, Raritan, Secaucus, Teaneck, Watchung, Weehawken.

Being a California native, I just learned how to pronounce Zzyzx at 38, and I'm 39 lol. And Camarillo, I never knew existed here in California until this video. In my opinion, you all did great, because each region here has different accents and dialect, so we pronounce the same word differently.

“La is such and American pronunciation.” The French: b-but

Seeing the road sign for Zzyzx makes me happy every time. On Highway 15 on the way to Las Vegas.

I’ve been through Zzyzx, CA but thankfully not been to it. It’s a freeway exit in the middle of nowhere off I-15 that reaches 120 in the summer (or 48 for the rest of the world).

Go to South Carolina and we got places like Round-O, Yemassee, Kingstree (some natives pronounce it Kings-skree) and Moncks Corner. We got people from here (usually Yankee descendants) who can’t even pronounce Moncks Corner.

There are several Lafayettes in the U.S a d the way they are pronounced is different sometimes due to regional accents. For instance, Lafayette, Indiana is more often pronounced "Laffy-ette" or "Lahffy-ette"

Y'all need to do Washington's native tribe cities

Watching them trying to say Schenectady was simply hilarious. 😆

Pflugerville is a suburb of Austin and has a small town atmosphere. It is named for the Pfluger family that settled the town....pretty nice area with lots of nice new homes , good schools, and close to much shopping.

The fella in the grey hoodie is just adorable! I want to have a cuppa tea with him!

They went easy on you guys. For example; Puyallup, Murfreesboro, Mamaroneck, Wantagh, Hauppauge, Copiague, Massapequa, Spuyten Duyvil, Leominster and Scituate

People from the area of Louisville (south IN & OH, KY, TN) pronounce it; *Lou-uh-vull* where the emphasis is on Lou, the ‘uh’ is very short and like a short ‘a’, and a hard stop at the ‘L’ in ‘vul’.

Missed opportunity to choose cities in Michigan and Wisconsin, there are places like Oconomowoc, Ypsilanti, Ishpeming, Wasau, Fond Du Lac, Shawano, Kalamazoo, etc. Plus there is a whole lot of "twp" in Michigan.

They needed to come to Florida and try Kissimmee, Chokoloskee and Micanopy

Hello from Camarillo, California!!!!

I live in Des Moines and I was very happy to hear "de mua" when it first came up. I live in De Mua California now.

"I'm so good at this game!" Literally is on the second one

I was waiting for them to say La Jolla California… That would’ve been funny

Props to remembering Bugs, dude! He shoulda taken a left turn there.

One of my classmates moved to Texas and was the superintendent of Pflugerville schools about 10 years ago. It is a funny one.

Oh my gosh! I almost died choking on my own spit laughing! I live in Pflugerville Texas! I've been here since 5th grade (24yrs old now). I was nowhere near expecting P-ville to be on this list!! If they were gonna do Texas I expected Gruene, or Waxahachie, Balmorhea, Nacogdoches, Pedernales, Refugio, or even Buda, Manor or Palestine. I did not think that Li'l ol' Pflugerville would ever get noticed by Buzzfeed. Pflugerville is a (growing) little German town named after the Pfluger family that founded the town. We're a suburb of Austin, and roughly halfway between Austin and Round Rock. Our town motto is that we're, "stuck between a Rock and a Weird place," because of, "Keep Austin Weird."

Zzyzx is the place where Polish settlers met the Incas and went "hey we love those letters too!" Actually the true the history behind this name could be straight out of The Simpsons.

You completely missed my favourite which I found while looking at a map Slicklizzard, AL. Probably not hard to pronounce but wonderfully quirky!

For a very long time the last person in the Chicago phone book was a Zyzzy Zyzzx. For real. (yes, I am old, I remember phone books and being bored enough to read them.)

I’ve lived in California all my life and I had to google maps where Zzyzx is located

Haha 9:13 "thats just the end of the alphabet ". "Seattle"

Should have included Natchitoches, Louisiana.

This is soooo hilarious to watch! 😂😂😂 And to the dude who kept saying, "why add letters if you're not going to pronounce them": SERIOUSLY?! Tell me all your town and municipal county names don't have TONS of letters that you just breeze right through! When I read maps of the UK and see things like "such and such upon aven or whatever, I'm like,"whatever they're on, I want some. Immediately." 😂😂😂

Guy in the black has me lmao 🤣

Lol I live in Wisconsin in the USA. Try and pronounce our towns lol Waukesha.... Manitowoc, Chetek, Oconomowoc, Weyauwega, Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest, Menomonie, Kaukauna. Just to name a few lol I love when my friends from out of state and out of the US come to visit and have no idea what I say lol

Louisville is pronounced 'Lou-ee-ville' in a lot of the country. That's like not giving them a point for saying 'New Or-leens' just because people in New Orleans pronounce it 'New Or-lans'. It's still an accepted pronunciation.

The fun part of this, an an American with a lot of Brit friends, is that sometimes they have no clue how far apart some of these cities are....and it's charming. Any city in Maryland is at least 2,000 miles away from Tucson. I met a girl who had just arrived from Leeds, and she thought she could work in New York and drive to Los Angeles on weekends. When I lived in France, I was amazed that I could drive from my home near Nice to Florence in about 5 1/2 hours -- which is less than I drive to go skiing in Northern NY State - or Vermont.

2:54 Pflugerville is bordered by Hutto but some locals call the in-between are Pflutto. Me, I live in Round Rock, Texas.