The website onlyinyourstate.com asked six Californians to sound out some of Minnesota's tougher-to-pronounce cities.
Watch Californians butcher the pronunciation of Minnesota cities
We like to keep the out-of-towners guessing.
By Aimee Blanchette
October 6, 2016 at 6:48PM
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The results? Well, not good, but not exactly surprising, either. If you've hosted guests from out of town, you've probably enjoyed a laugh at their mispronunciations of New Prague, Minnetonka and Mahtomedi. The video, posted on Facebook here, has been viewed more than 208,000 times.
And let's face it: even natives have a hard time pronouncing some of these cities. Wayzata anyone?
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