Are You Saying These 25 Colorado Words Correctly? Find Out

Visiting Colorado means hearing strange-sounding words like Uncompahgre, Cañon City, Tabeguache, and several tongue-twisters that can make anyone feel foolish.

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While some Coloradans find frustration when overhearing someone mispronounce some of the region's words, I usually just find humor. I love hearing people try to say Fruita for the first time. It's so simple, yet it's not if you don't know how.

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Which Colorado Words Do You Hate Hearing Mispronounced?

We asked you to chat with us on our station app and share a 'Colorado word' that you often hear people mispronounce. It's ok if you don't hate it. Here are 25 of the top answers along with the phonetic spelling to help you sound out each one.

What are Colorado's Trickiest Names?

Saguache is a word that was used by the Ute Indians and means 'blue earth.' It's a town of about 500 residents that is often mispronounced by guests as "sa-GATCH-ee". The town is pronounced, "sa-WAH-chee".

Buena Vista is another town that was brought up a couple of times in the gallery above. The typical Spanish pronunciation of Buena is not used in this instance. The town is pronounced Buu-nah Vista", not "bwen-ah".

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Most Mispronounced Butte?

Did you know that Reader's Digest once ranked Crested Butte, Colorado, as the hardest town to pronounce in our state because people kept saying it, "Crested Butt"? I could not stop laughing. Really? It's clearly not Crested Butt. I can't even continue, LOL.