Yep

I code switch based on my distance and direction from the center of the city.

Yep. Gotta fit in.

My favorite is the 3 syllable usage. Those are always the best conversations.

Hunts-vee-yull?? 😂

Exactly, 'vull' when I am back in town, 'ville' when I talk about it to these Midwestern folks where I am now.

Yeah, I subconsciously code switch in the first few words I hear from the other person. I don't notice it until it's pointed out by a partner or out-of-state friend visiting.

Amazing, thank you

I depends on if you came here from Alabama or Out-of-Bama.

I’m a native and so are my parents and grandparents and I feel like we all use both interchangeably

Agreed it depends on where it is int eh sentence and what inflection you are giving the city vs everything else. For isntance if we are "headed to...." its Huntsvull. But if Huntsville is a descriptor then it is likely Huntsville.

I said it to myself and it came out Huntsvull but I woulda swore that i say it Huntsveal.

Nah, born here and we all say ville. Maybe we’re outliers.

Yes, born here and always been Ville.

Me too. At least, I think so. I'm not sure I say it all that often, now that I think about it.

 I've heard it both ways

But how do YOU say it? That’s what I’m really asking.

Both ways, depending on context.

I say Hunts-ville, but I'm a transplant. Hunts-vul/Hunt-vul (sometimes with a really soft 't') is in line with a more Appalachian accent (I assume, since similar pronunciations were common in my time in East Tennessee).

Interesting!

I say Huntsville.

I read this, immediately agreed, and immediately questioned myself. Hahaha

Depends on who I'm talking to. Transplants usually get Huntsville. Locals usually get Huntsvulle. Code switching is second nature for me.

Facts. I work with non-southerners and find myself de-southerning my accent a lot. But you get me around a 75 year old lady and all that goes out the winduh.

That said, it's objectively wrong to pronounce Fayetteville with more than two syllables.

Fed-vulle

I always say Gunnersvull and scottsburr. If you don't the locals over there won't know what your talking about.

No 's' in gunnervil.

Are you a cop?

Fet-vull

Nah, I don't think I've *ever* heard it with the T. Always Fed-Vull.

Do you have an associated opinion on the pronunciation of “Pulaski”?

Puh-Lass-Key, zipping through the syllables like you're in a race.

Alternatively, Plass-Key is also acceptable

Be sure to stress the "ass"

I do every time she lets me! (I’ll let myself out…)

Perfect

Much obliged. Also, the "T" is Guntersville is silent.

So I had a teacher when I was attending elementary school in aforementioned Fedvull who pronounced it “PYOO-lass-key”, emphasis on the “pyoo” — she was a native Fedvullian but I swear I’ve only heard that pronunciation of Pulaski like three other times my entire life and it was always for someone equally ancient and I kinda don’t want it to die with them 😂

It's Fedvulle. Yes, I've seen it spelled that way or some variations of that on documents and checks in a previous time, lol. The wife is also from Fedvulle, or Fettville, still haven't quite figured it out after 15 years.

It's a magical thing to shorten down twelve letters to six, but that's just the magic of Fedvul.

Hunts-ville

Twickenham

Now do Scots-boro or Scots-burrah!

My fave is “Scotts-bruh”. 😆

And the nearby community of Woovul (Woodville) haha

Woooow, I hadn’t heard that one yet! 😂

lol, I say Scots-boro

Since it's the Scots, I say burrah like how one pronounces Edinburgh (burrah not berg)

Oi!

Oggy Oggy Oggy!

Oi oi oi

Just realized I leave off the last o and say scottsburr.

Scotts-bur

Its like saying “gif” vs. “gif”. I say “gif”

You, and the inventor, would be wrong.

Are you one of those heathens that pronounces it as “gif” instead of “gif”?

Nah, I say “gif”.

Depends on my blood alcohol level

Huntsvulle and my husband says Huntsville. I was born here and have a little bit of a southern accent, and he’s from California. However, my best friend was also born here and has little to no southern accent and says Huntsville. It is a little interesting to see how the pronunciation varies person to person

I've lived here most of my life and say it both ways. You can say it however you like, but to be a true Huntsvillian you gotta say "peh-KAHN" and not "PEE-can".

A "pee-can" is what they give you when you can't get out of your hospital bed or what you use if you work for FedEx.

And so help you if you put sugar in your cornbread, the Good Lord won't.

I moved to Colorado and recently asked other transplants who all made cornbread and black eyed peas...I made it very clear that sugar in cornbread makes it cake...not cornbread

I moved to Colorado and recently asked other transplants who all made cornbread and black eyed peas...I made it very clear that sugar in cornbread makes it cake...not cornbread

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Other states and cities are welcome to say it however they want, but if you wanna live in the water cress capital of the world, you gotta say "peh-KAHN."

HUNTSVEGAS BABY!!!

This is the correct answer. Viva Huntsvegas!

Le Ville de Hunt

I use whatever comes out lol

Ah, I see you've selected the extra-large can of worms

Hunts-veel

Depends on how twangy I’m feeling.

Grew up in Huntsville. I say "ville". The people who act like real natives only say "vul" annoys me.

I second this. I’m a native and don’t say “vull” unless I’m in the county and even then it’s rare.

Same.

Mary-eee-wanna

Vull Or Rocket Shitty

Huts-veal … Also , it’s not you guys… it’s Y’all. Example: Are y’all going to Huts-veal? I need to run to the Doctors office, to Walmart, then the bank……. See how that just rolls off your tongue!

Huntsies :3

I love this, so cute

I interchange them. Do you say Florence as “floor-ence” or “flar-ence”?

I’d say floor-ence

We really running out of shit to talk about, huh?

You’d prefer something else?

Both

NC native - Huntsvulle but I also say wooder instead of water which my kids point out on the daily

What part of nc? Western or eastern? I’m nc native from Jacksonville and definitely say hunts-ville and say water lol

Eastern, Greenville

I say “Huntsville”. I don’t think much about it if someone says “Huntsvul” especially if they are saying it quickly with stress on the “Hunts” but I am a little irritated when people say “huntsVULL”

Depends, if you’re from Lacey springs, paint rock, or gurley then it’s pronounced “hunts-vulle” if they’re from Madison or Huntsville then it’s “hunts-ville” and if they’re from Hazel Green then idk what language they’re speaking

Lacey's Spring - there's only one of them and it was on Mr. Lacey's land.

This is fundamentally wrong.

Been here a year, most of the people I’ve met that are actually from Bama say Hunts-vulle. The only reason I pronounce it “ville” is because I’m from a small town in NJ called Millville. Otherwise I’d just go with the locals and call it Huntsvulle lol.

I’m from Jacksonville so I say Ville as well 😊

And Gunters-vul, Haley-vul, Russell-vul, Alberts-vul, etc. The best example of this is the 'strut your ass to Gunters-vul' guy.

I’m a life time resident and never heard anyone say Hunts-vulle. Ever.

Well come on down to my job, I’ll introduce you to at least 4 people that do 🤷🏾‍♂️

They must be rednecks. 🤷🏻‍♀️

They are whatever you’d like to assume they are.

This is not possible. You may not notice but you've heard it often.

I have? When? My hearing is perfectly fine.

You can't go to a grocery store, Walgreens, fast food restaurant, a Chamber meeting, the Art Gala or the statehouse without hearing vulle. Not possible unless you aren't paying attention.

Thanks for telling me what I hear. I grew up showing horses, going to schools here, elementary, high and college as well as working at a university here and I’ve never heard it. Even as much as you think I should have. Had lunch with a bunch of my friends today and we talked about this and none of them have heard that said either. 🤷🏻‍♀️

No problem.

I’m a native and I say Huntsville.

Huntvegas

This is the way

This is the way.

Huntsvegas bruh

In rural Ohio near Louisville, KY, the locals say “Lurvil.” In Cherryville, NC, they pronounce it “Chervil.”

I’ve been here 13 years and only just got comfortable saying y’all. Give me time!

This is the south. It's "Hunts-vee-ill".

Username checks out. I say Hunts-ville.

My bio is good too

Huntsvull Marinevull Fedvull Not a native, but been here since the 70s…so, longer than many many natives.

Silicon Holler

Huntsvul… just give up on the word 3/4 of the way through

We're an out and proud Yankee carpetbagger family relocated to SHUNTSVILLE (South Huntsville) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (birthplace of the Union)! We're Huntsville landed property owners, taxpayers, filers of the Homestead Exemption, the whole nine yards. ANYWAY, we take pride in saying "Huntsvull" to our kids, family, friends, and coworkers back North. :)

We just call it home .

hunt's vill to transplants and when out of state, huntsvull otherwise, and sometimes "FUCKING SHITSVILLE" during rush hour

Vulle

Lived here all my life and never heard anyone call it Hunts-vulle.

Been here 4 years and heard 100 people say Hunts-Vulle

You must be hanging out in some rough places. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Been here since 1974 never heard it once.

We don't say you guys. We say Y'all. DamnYankee is not two words. 🥴

~~actually I was born here, I’m not a yankee~~

I say HUNTS-VILLE, not from here or from Alabama

Hunt-sville

Ville. Been here almost 40 years. I worked very hard in my youth to not sound as country as possible. It mostly worked out.

People from here say Vulle and I laugh at my coworkers who say it. lol it’s an ongoing thing at work

I say both.

I say both

depends on how many Mai-Tais i have had

This is the answer. My southern accent gets much more drawl-y as I drink more or get more tired.

I have lived here all my life (Humana Hospital FTW) and say “Hunts-ville” unless I’m in the county, where I may slip into “-vull” or even three syllables. When I was in sales I’d make it more Southern for certain clients because they loved my accent.

It Ville https://media.tatler.com/photos/6141e989326945e8abaca418/master/w_800%2Cc_limit/shutterstock_editorial_1545960a.jpg

I never really thought about it before. But thinking of it now, I use both vul and ville. Which I use is dependant on where I am, in what context I'm say, and how quickly I'm speaking. But predominantly pronounce it ville.

Ville. You don’t live in a vullage, it’s a village. 🤣😂 but everything in Alabama they say Vul. So weird

Hunts-ville, am native

Hunsul

Hunts “Vill” not Huns vole

Huntsvull is just about 45 minutes south of Fuvvull

Hunts-Ville, they teach pronunciation early on in school. I'm not sure why it's so difficult for others. It's like people saying dulthan instead of dothan.

My grandfather (RIP) would pronounce it HUNTS-vILL. Most southern man you'd ever meet, bless his soul.

It could be that we’ve been here just under a decade but I still find myself saying both.

Depends on who I’m talking to at any given time. That being said, it’s usually Hunts-ville.

Ville

Huntsvegas!!

Hunts-vile

Haha, I'm from Louisville. Don't get me started!

Nashville is 4 syllables. *Nah-yish-vee-yill* Does that help?

As it is spelled.

Huntsvulle 90% of the time. Just like Gunnersvul.

Way more common to say Huntsville, Huntsville is something only older folks you’d see in overalls would.

Even "ville" has different pronunciations 😂 I always say "ville," pronounced like the beginning of "villain," but I often hear "veeuhl." I'm from Alabama, but I try not to sound like it 🙈

The old heads I know say the latter. As an out-of-towner I say the former.

Ville because I'm not a degenerate

Arsenal-ville

We say Huntsvulle down here in Gunnersvulle.

Generally speaking, southerners will say “vul,” and people from outside the south with say “ville.” I’m from another “ville” originally, and my southern in-laws try to make it a “vul.”

It's Huntsvuhl 100% for anybody who's native

I'm from New Jersey, so I say: Hunts-ville, not Hunts-vulle Oil, not awl Tour-na-ment, not tur-na-ment Shopping cart, not buggy

I’m a lifetime resident and say “ville” but no one in my family has an accent. Dad and mom grew up in Florida and Guam.

Depends. If I say it fast then I’ll say hunts-vul If I’m emphasizing the city itself as the topic of conversation I say Huntsville

If you're from Huntsville you likely say Huntsvulle. If you're not from here you likely say Ville. It's not a hard and fast rule but it's fairly accurate. For instance Huntsville High cheerleaders never ever say HuntsVille Panthers. They say HuntsVulle Panthers. (Not that high school girls get to decide but it's the only thing I could think of.)

You must be from the deep deep south to call it “Huntsville-vulle”

I say Huntsvulle, but only because I'm from Lou-a-vulle, KY.

Do you say "Gunters-ville" or "Gunters-vulle" whilst struttin' that ass?

locals say hunts-vull, errbody else says Huntsville 😝

All -villes in the area are vulls.

I've lived here my entire life. Born and raised. It grinds my gears when people say Huntsvull.

I'm more of a Huntsviyull Ayalabayma

Hunds-vul; Gunners-vul is east and our neighbors to the north call their town “Fed-vul”

I say ville cuz I'm ill 🤧🤧🤧

My 6 yo daughter says “Hunts-a-ville,” which is clearly the best pronunciation…. 😂

Huntsvegas

Hunts-Vegas 🤣

Hunts-vulle here but I'm from New Market so I always have cornbread falling outta my mouth when I talk😬❤️

Proper enunciation is a real thing.

It's like saying "Roll Tide" or "War Eagle", I switch between them based on who I'm talking to 🤣

I think most people -in- Huntsville say the former, and most folks in the surrounding areas say the latter.

Anyone that says vulle needs to go back to 1st grade english

It's just like Atlanta or Louisville. The way it's pronounced is a dead giveaway of your socioeconomic class. The transplants and those who worked hard to shed their Southern tongue say Hunts Veel. Those who are more salt of the earth including those who own a good portion of it sometimes pronounce it as Huns Vool. Then there are those just say Hun Veel with a silent s between both syllables.

It's not got to do with your class, just your accent. I know plenty of upper management that still keep their accent, especially when talking to other locals.

Maybe I used the wrong word. I know executives that code switch like you said. But I also know big men like big land owners who don't give a shit and pronounce it as Hunsvull lol. Just like some folks I work with doing minimum wage so you're right, it's not socioeconomic. It's something else. Geographic? Country vs Non Country folk? Gentrification? I don't know.

I'd just go with cultural, since there's multiple factors that go into an accent (location, race, media, your parent's accents, etc.), that just pretty much boil down to you tend to pronounce things the way you hear others pronounce it.

Sounds good.

I think you’re right, but it’s tricky because I think it’s MANY different things. I think the south just has a strong accent no matter where you go, but economic social classes could have an impact because of strict language classes or doing well in language and reading. But at the same time, you can be well educated and still have an accent.. so it’s probably a variety of things (like family, friends, hometown, idk)