Dictionary of Nebraska English

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RedRedJarvisRedwhine said:
NUinID said:
jsneb83 said:
BigRedBuster said:
husker B-rent said:
pop is not only Nebraskan, more of a region thing and when we say "the river" we mean the Nemaha river! oh and "shar" for shower.
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Pop is actually one that I take offense to. I get teased by my nieces all the time that grew up on the East coast because they think "soda" is more correct. In reality, this all started with the term "Soda Pop". So, we chose to shorten it to "pop" and they decided to use "soda". Why is one more correct than the other one?

One that absolutely drives me crazy because my wife is from that area so I hear it all the time is "Norfork" for referring to a certain town in the north east part of the state. People...it is spelled "NORFOLK". There is not a second "R" in the word.

I was raised by two English teachers and mispronunciations or misuse of words drive me crazy.

Problem is, for some reason I still suck at spelling and punctuation.
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Maybe if you knew where the name came from it would make more sense. The colony had been settled on the north fork of the Elkhorn River. So the original name was North Fork, or something similar. It somehow got named Norfolk when it became a city.
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I taught school in Norfolk for 16 years. You are mostly correct. The story goes that it was called Norfork as in North Fork of Elkhorn River. Kinda like a Noreaster storm. Anyway the story goes that when the town registered or whatever they do in Washington DC they thought it was a typo and changed the spelling to Norfolk like Norfolk, Virginia.

My mother always did and always will call a sofa a davenport.
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In Missouri, a davenport/sofa/couch is called patio furniture!
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Yeah, but if you are from Missouri it is pronounced Missura

 
BigRedBuster said:
One that absolutely drives me crazy because my wife is from that area so I hear it all the time is "Norfork" for referring to a certain town in the north east part of the state. People...it is spelled "NORFOLK". There is not a second "R" in the word.
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That's just how everybody from around here says it. It's been "Norfork" forever.

 
accountability said:
GSG5545 said:
accountability said:
The pronunciation of Louisville has been drivin me nuts lately. i dont know why it just has. I've been hearing it as "LOO-I-VUL". And I've always known it as "LOO-EE-VILL". Right or wrong, it's one of them stupid little things that just ruins my day.
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Any more, it sounds like Lull-ville with a mouthful of mashed potatoes
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Yeah, that too. That may be the way it's supposed to be pronounced, but listening to Kevin Kugler on the espn radio broadcast of their final four games trying to pronounce it that way instead of "LOO-EE-VILL" was just driving me insane.
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My understanding was always that the LOO-I-VULL was the way they said it in Kentucky. But the town in Nebraska gets pronounced LOO-IS-VILL.

Maybe we need a congressional ruling like Kansas and Arkansas.

 
strigori said:
accountability said:
GSG5545 said:
accountability said:
The pronunciation of Louisville has been drivin me nuts lately. i dont know why it just has. I've been hearing it as "LOO-I-VUL". And I've always known it as "LOO-EE-VILL". Right or wrong, it's one of them stupid little things that just ruins my day.
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Any more, it sounds like Lull-ville with a mouthful of mashed potatoes
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Yeah, that too. That may be the way it's supposed to be pronounced, but listening to Kevin Kugler on the espn radio broadcast of their final four games trying to pronounce it that way instead of "LOO-EE-VILL" was just driving me insane.
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My understanding was always that the LOO-I-VULL was the way they said it in Kentucky. But the town in Nebraska gets pronounced LOO-IS-VILL.

Maybe we need a congressional ruling like Kansas and Arkansas.
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I thought Louisville, NE was pronounced LOO-ISS-VILLE

 
Louisville Colorado is pronounced Loo-iss-ville also. I called it Lou-ee-ville once shortly after we moved here and I was immediately corrected.

 
Does anybody remember a "Nebraska Navy" or a "Nebraska Admiral" or something like that? My grandfather had a plaque about him being in the Nebraska Navy.

 
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