What Mispronounced Words Make Colorado Sound Dumb?

If hard-to-pronounce towns make you nervous Colorado may not be the best place for you. To move to the Centennial State is to make a spectacle of yourself till you've had a chance to learn how some things are said.

Colorado is home to many counties, towns, landmarks, and monuments that have some pretty interesting names. You will say them wrong. Many in Grand Junction will laugh. We'll teach you how to say them correctly.

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It's Easy to Say Things Wrong in Colorado

From Uncompahgre to Cache la Poudre, Colorado is here to trick all of us with the names of its mountains, rivers, and towns. What about when someone mispronounces a word or misuses a word? Is this more annoying than someone saying Ouray incorrectly?

Misunderstood and Mispronounced

Irregardless, isn't a word. Yet people say it all the time.

We got started sharing words people tend to mispronounce, and then asked you to help us think of words that make us all sound dumb when we say them wrong.

20 Ways To Avoid Sounding Dumb

Tracy brought up a great example that can help us get started. People who say "pitchers instead of pictures." Ronn says people who say "Relater instead of realtor." Shirley said any sentence with a "got" in the middle makes people sound dumb.

Tell us a word you hear someone misuse/mispronounce that just makes them sound dumb. Scroll through the gallery below and then submit your answer with our station app.

What Mispronounced Words Make Colorado Sound Dumb?

Know someone who says relater instead of realtor? What about Hambugger? Do you know someone who goes to the liberry?

It's time to laugh at 20 mispronounced words that make Coloradans sound dumb.

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LOOK: 16 Colorado Towns People Mispronounce The Most

The Colorado territory was once a part of Spain, Mexico, and even Texas. Evidence of several different languages can be found in the names of towns and locations throughout the state. Many of these locations are often mispronounced. You can sound like a true Coloradan by brushing up on the pronunciation of some of Colorado's most confusing locations below.

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Some people spend their entire workday fixing things while others need to fix things occasionally when something breaks down. Join us in handing out a pat on the back for those who shared something they recently repaired on their own.

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