Another town with a name that sounds different from what you might expect: Russiaville, Indiana. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Pronouncing Russiaville”
Our conversation about towns that have names that don’t sound like the way they’re spelled prompted an email from Chris Williams, who said,
A town near where I grew up in north-central Indiana is spelled Rushaville, but it’s actually pronounced like Rouchaville.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, and apparently the founder, or it was named for a guy whose last name was Richardville.
So the French pronunciation corrupted into the English mouths.
Yeah, but it looks like Russia-ville.
Russia-ville. Gotcha.
