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By: johnbt 10/3/2025	Posted By: johnbt - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/5/2019 Location: Richmond VA Total Posts: 924 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 1:18 PM
Isn't that how it's been pronounced for at least, well, forever?

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RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Stumpy 10/3/2025	Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: I'm right here Total Posts: 1003 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 4:27 PM
Yes. But even today inlanders call it Rodanth.

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By: Bentmtn 10/3/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 5731 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 4:35 PM
Yes. But even today inlanders call it Rodanth. Stumpy You're right. Had a discussion with an employee at the Liberty Station on that very subject. He said local people still mispronounce it and he couldn't believe it. And of course, tourists do and always asked him about the " Nights in Rodanth" movie.

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Bentmtn 10/3/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 5731 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 5:45 PM
To be fair, it's all about geography. In my past home, we had a gorgeous view of Cahas MTN which is situated in Franklin County....one over from Rke County where the house was. I spoke to a local vendor one day referencing the mountain and pronounced it CA'- hoss, and he corrected me to say it was pronounced Caa-HAZE' by the locals. It's all about where ya are and taking cues from the long time folks that have lived it and worked it. I always ask now...

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By: ezbuckwheat 10/3/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1688 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 6:05 PM
The Internet don’t never tell no lies. Click to follow link...

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Bentmtn 10/3/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 5731 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 6:24 PM
The Internet don’t never tell no lies. Click to follow link... ezbuckwheat Hahahaha! You are just too funny, EZ! "don't never tell". Yeppers! Yeah....I coulda crawled under the table. I pride myself on trying accents and wanting to know the vernacular where I am! Had a big tussle once on Mebane, NC! I won. Lol

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Stumpy 10/3/2025	Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: I'm right here Total Posts: 1003 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 7:41 PM
Might as well go full on... Conetoe.

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Bentmtn 10/3/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 5731 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 7:47 PM
Might as well go full on... Conetoe. Stumpy Hahahahahahahahahaha!

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By: Greg MD 10/3/2025	Posted By: Greg MD - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/10/2014 Location: Swamp Total Posts: 4824 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 8:14 PM
Might as well go full on... Conetoe. Stumpy You sir, are an instigator

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By: ezbuckwheat 10/3/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1688 Experience: Date Posted: 10/3/2025 9:24 PM
I could pronounce both Mebane and Conetoe without even consulting Miss Google.

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Floyd 10/7/2025	Posted By: Floyd - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/7/2014 Location: Chesapeake, VA-KDH Total Posts: 322 Experience: Date Posted: 10/7/2025 10:46 PM
Let's start with a simple city. Just pronounce Norfolk.

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: ezbuckwheat 10/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1688 Experience: Date Posted: 10/7/2025 11:27 PM
Let's start with a simple city. Just pronounce Norfolk. Floyd NAWfuk

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By: OceanBlue 10/8/2025	Posted By: OceanBlue - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/21/2010 Location: Total Posts: 2724 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 8:46 AM
Let's start with a simple city. Just pronounce Norfolk. Floyd NAWfuk ezbuckwheat How's the old Norfolk Academy cheer go? Something like: "we don't drink, we don't smoke, Norfolk, Norfolk!"

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By: Stratosman86 10/8/2025	Posted By: Stratosman86 - (Send PM) Member Since: 5/6/2020 Location: Enon, VA Total Posts: 592 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 8:59 AM
Don't forget about Staunton! Also if your from the Richmond area, the Powhite Parkway.

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Bentmtn 10/8/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 5731 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 9:08 AM
I worked at a company with Norfolk in the name and dared not pronounce it correctly to my customers when calling them for fear I would get fired if someone beyond my cubbie heard me! Most of my co-workers pronounced it NOR'-FOKE. Tsk tsk. Gotta go with the flow!

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By: jfalba 10/8/2025	Posted By: jfalba - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/10/2019 Location: OHIO Total Posts: 1320 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 10:25 AM
Gotta say I knew about your slaughter of word pronunciations in the South. lol. May I also include the name Ashley for a boy….my husband kept saying in a restaurant WHY ARE THEY CALLING THAT BOY,ASHLEY? (our daughters name)…we are Yankees. I calmly replied REMEMBER GONE WITH THE WIND, JOHN!! he went on and on about it!

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By: OceanBlue 10/8/2025	Posted By: OceanBlue - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/21/2010 Location: Total Posts: 2724 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 10:54 AM
the Powhite Parkway. I thought that was addressed here, earlier in the thread maybe not

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: ezbuckwheat 10/8/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1688 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 11:07 AM
Let's start with a simple city. Just pronounce Norfolk. Floyd NAWfuk ezbuckwheat How's the old Norfolk Academy cheer go? Something like: "we don't drink, we don't smoke, Norfolk, Norfolk!" OceanBlue Click to follow link...

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Stumpy 10/8/2025	Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: I'm right here Total Posts: 1003 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 11:27 AM
Used to live in Williamsburg. Lost count of the various pronunciations of Norfolk. The one guy I knew named... it was spelled Ashlee. Southron is legit.

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Stumpy 10/8/2025	Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: I'm right here Total Posts: 1003 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 11:31 AM
Pretty sure I've posted this before. Oh well, here it is again.

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By: Bentmtn 10/8/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 5731 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 11:40 AM
Pretty sure I've posted this before. Oh well, here it is again. Stumpy Hahahahhahahaha! Absolutely hilarious. Can't stop laughing ... You can post it everyday and it doesn't get old for a great laugh! Genius people that create this stuff.....

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By: John Bull 10/8/2025	Posted By: John Bull - (Send PM) Member Since: 4/18/2017 Location: Total Posts: 603 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 11:58 AM
"Rodanthee" for sure going back to when it was named Chicamacomico. Now that we are on to pronunciations- in the name of all that is good and holy Bodie Island is pronounced like "Body" Island!

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Bentmtn 10/8/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 5731 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 12:06 PM
Let's start with a simple city. Just pronounce Norfolk. Floyd NAWfuk ezbuckwheat How's the old Norfolk Academy cheer go? Something like: "we don't drink, we don't smoke, Norfolk, Norfolk!" OceanBlue Click to follow link... ezbuckwheat So funny, EZ. My son graduated from ODU. I'll havta quiz 'em on it to see if he learnt innathin from that thar uneeversittah!

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: ezbuckwheat 10/8/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1688 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 12:24 PM
Of all the celebrities who grew up in Norfolk, none speak with a stronger Norfolkian accent than Lefty Driesell. He pronounces out as oot and Maryland as Merland. Click to follow link...

RE: Ten years of erosion
By: Stumpy 10/8/2025	Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: I'm right here Total Posts: 1003 Experience: Date Posted: 10/8/2025 12:51 PM
Of all the celebrities who grew up in Norfolk, none speak with a stronger Norfolkian accent than Lefty Driesell. He pronounces out as oot and Maryland as Merland. ezbuckwheat Yep. That eastern Va. accent is unmistakable. Sitting around the house = sittin' aboot the hoose. Although he is from more central Va., see Ward Burton.

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