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Watch Southerners Try to Pronounce the Names of Long Island Towns
Massapequa. Hauppauge. Mattituck. Hilarious video posted by college student from LI shows her friends trying to say local town names.
As Long Islanders, we pride ourselves on being able to masterfully pronounce some tricky sounding town names. There sure are plenty of them across the island. But what happens when out-of-towners try to pronounce Long Island towns? The results aren't always pretty, y'all.
Elena Barilla, a Long Islander attending college at the University of South Carolina, did field research on the matter. Barilla's video of her Southern friends attempting to say the names of Long Island towns, from Copiague to Hauppauge, has been shared thousands of times on Twitter since Monday, and with good reason.
Just watch:
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Here is a video of my southern friends trying to pronounce the names of towns on Long Island.. pic.twitter.com/HXhfIFGL8e
— Elena Jo (@ElenaBarilla) October 24, 2016
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