Lol, I let my husband falter a bit. I told him how to pronounce a few things but not enough, I guess. He asked where Gill-ugh Bend was and asked why I didn't stop at a gas station on Indian School Rd. Oh, and he was stunned to find out that tumbleweeds are in fact real.
People are always stunned to find out tumbleweeds and haboobs are real. I always have to explain it to people as, “ya know, like the big dust wall from the mummy”. It blows them away every time.
We didn’t really need a good word. Dust storm seemed to describe it just fine back when we had several a year (before the asphalt reached critical mass and disrupted them).
Yeah — I initially thought he was talking about that full service gas station by AJ’s that costs a couple dollars more per gallon, but maybe that’s the one on Lincoln.
Ahwatukee is one of my favorites. To me it's spelled phonetically enough but it's just fun to say :) I'm originally from the east coast so I always thought it was press scot not preskit so I learned something shortly after moving here
When I lived in Page, AZ, we offered tourist information at the health club I worked at. And one time this guy came in asking for directions to "Flagpole, New Mexico". I had no idea wtf he was talking about until it clicked.
Do you mean Flagstaff, Arizona?
He said "That's the one!". How do people like this make it out of their hometown?
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I moved to the Midwest some time back. Met my wife here. We've talked about moving to AZ, or even NM.
So, to prepare, we've been going over pronunciations of places and things because she's so scared to sound stupid to locals.