Where you put the accent. The correct way to say the name of Waterloo, Iowa is to put the emphasis on the "loo" not the "Water" like the Belgian city. It's equivalent to the Madrid, IA/ Madrid, Spain and Nevada, Ia/ Nevada.
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Where you put the accent. The correct way to say the name of Waterloo, Iowa is to put the emphasis on the "loo" not the "Water" like the Belgian city. It's equivalent to the Madrid, IA/ Madrid, Spain and Nevada, Ia/ Nevada.
I grew up around that area and I never heard any problems with how people pronounced it. We used to pronounce it "STINK-town", though.
I keed, I keed.
"There are five real good recruits in the state. We got three of them. One couldn’t get into school, and the other went to (the University of) Iowa...which is about the same thing." - Coach Johnny Orr
People that have a license plate that looks like a rainbow because they don't realize they should put the stickers on top of each other. In my experience these are usually the worst drivers on the road.
Parents that don't parent
Toilet paper loaded the wrong way (underneath)
Pants on the ground
Loud cell phone talkers-Although I find myself doing this.
People that have a license plate that looks like a rainbow because they don't realize they should put the stickers on top of each other. In my experience these are usually the worst drivers on the road.
I forgot about this one, I hate this
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day".-Frank Sinatra
1) People who drink a small portion of their bottled water and then pitch it out the car window
2) People who snowblow their driveway at 6 am on a holiday and then dont go anywhere.
3) That one idiot in the office that comes to work all the time and makes you listen to those 100 decibel coughs every couple of minutes. Or the nonstop throat clearing...
When highways go to two lanes and signs say slower traffic keep right. And the slow *** in front of you stays in the left lane. They should put another sign behind this one that says this means you stupid.
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