How do you pronounce 'schuylkill" as in the river?

Portlanders How do you pronounce this?

• I looked up Portland Or on Urban Diction because I was curious and I was reading a definition and it said "Know how to pronounce Willamette and couch correctly, if mispronunced you will be thrown into the river" So how do portlanders pronounce Couch differently? And How do you pronounce Willamette? Thank you I know I probably sound like an idiot. I'm really not it just got me wondering if I have been mispronouncing the word couch my whole life. How embarrassing would that be?

• Answer:

  Couch St. is named after a person, not the furniture. And for whatever reason, the name is pronouced Kootch. Willamette has the accent on the second syllable. So it's Wil-LAM-mette. And the "e" at the end is silent. I wouldn't allow Portlanders' ways of pronouncing things make you feel wrong about what you've been doing. After all, they have a community called Aloha. It's pronounced Uh-LOW-Uh. There are a lot of towns that aren't pronounced as you'd logically think, or what would be ethnically correct. And they don't care if you don't like it...