Do you know how to correctly pronounce the name of this restaurant?
Everybody knows St. Louis slaughters its French street names and accuses its main highway of flatulence. But there’s far worse than Show-toe Avenue and Highway Farty. We eat KAR-mehl SUHN-duhs and shakes called “concretes,” for God’s sake, and North Siders warsh dishes in the kitchen zink. Only strangers and satnav, though, fall far enough to say DEZ-per-EZ for the River Des Peres.
OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND PARKS
Bellefontaine
- We say: BEHL FOWN tuhn
- Should be: BEHL-fon-TEHN
Carondelet
- We say: kuh-ron-duh-LEHT
- Should be: kah-RON-duh-LAY
Creve Coeur
- We say: KREEV-KOHR
- Should be: kreev-KER
Tower Grove
- We say: TAHR GROVE
- Should be: TOW-er Grove
Ville
- We say: VIHL
- Should be: VEEL
OUR FORTS
Rocher
- We say: ROHCH-er
- Should be: roh-SHAY
Chartres
- We say: CHART-ers
- Should be: SHAR-truh
OUR RIVERS
Courtois
- We say: KUHT-ah-way
- Should be: kuur-TWAH
Cuivre
- We say: KWIV-er
- Should be: KWEE-vruh
Des Peres
- We say: Duh-PAYR
- Should be: day-PAYR
AND YES, OUR STREETS
Beethoven
- We say: BETH-oh-vaan
- Should be: BAY-toh-vuhn
Bopp
- We say: BOP
- Should be: BOHP
DeTonty
- We say: DETT-a-nee
- Should be: duh-TON-tee
DeTonty
- We say: deh-TONEE
- Should be: duh-TON-tee
Gravois
- We say: GRAA-voyz
- Should be: grah-VWAH
Goethe
- We say: GOH-thee
- Should be: GUURT-tuh
Gratiot
- We say: GRAATCH-it
- Should be: GRAHSH-ee-o
Koskiusco
- We say: ko-SOO-kee-oh
- Should be: ko-SHUS-ko
Lindell
- We say: lihn-DELL
- Should be: LIHN-duhl
Spoede
- We say: SPOHD
- Should be: SPAY-dee