how to pronounce Houston

0Streets and towns are like that. You have to go with the natives.02br
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00Albany, the capital of NY, is pronounced double-l. The town in northern California is pronounced single-l, as in Al Gore.02br
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00In CA the "natives" don't always agree. Many streets and towns were named by the Spanish, but the gringos have anglicized some of them.0-

0 As Avangi has indicated, sometimes not even the natives agree 100%.02br
00When I was preparing for a trip New Orleans, I practices say 'nwahl'nz'; once there, however, I found nearly as many pronunciations as I did natives. The only one I didn't hear was 'NewOrleeenz'. 0-

0 Back in the day, you could tell what part of town someone was from by the way they pronounced "New Orleans." My grandmother, may her soul rest, used to give it the full Uptown four syllables (New WAHL-yee-uns). And yes, NO ONE says New Orleenz, but it's acceptable in song form, mostly because it's an easy rhyme. 02br
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0Del, do you cringe when TV announcers call it "New Or-lee-unz"? 0-

0 And then there's New Madrid, Illinois. (MAD - rid, not muh-DRID)0-

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0Sorry - that 01u00IS02u00 "house-stun" Street, in Manhattan, NY02br
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00Houston Street is named for 05000, who was a 05100 to the 05200 for the State of 05300 from 1784 through 1786 and to the 05400 in 1787.01sup^{05502sup}00 The street was christened by 05600 III, whose da

0Houston Street in New York City was 05000, a delegate to the 05100. It was still spelled "Houstoun Street" on maps of the area into the early 1800s. The spelling of the street changed (undoubtedly by mistake of some city cartographer and/or other officials), but New Yorkers continued pronouncing it the original way.02br
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0GG, I'm okay with New Or-lee-unz, because that's one of the legitimate pronunciations, not too far off from Nana's bizarre rendition. But New OrlEENS sets my teeth on edge, as do movies---some of them filmed on location!---in which the "natives" all speak with a syrupy moonlight-n-magnolias drawl. As though they were from, say, Alabama 05002br
00 And although "Naturally N'Awlins

As a 5th geration Houstonian i can tell ya the city is pronouced by Texans as (Hew-stin) but Houstonian is (Hew-stoney-ann)