I guess y'all are fixin to use our directional words.
Honestly Houston (and I'm sure the other major cities too) has a bunch of weird pronunciation that marks natives versus folks just lucky enough to move here and I assumed the article was going to go into things like "fixing" or our weird town names.
Here in Houston for example "Kuykendall" Street is pronounced with an R like the Dutch name from which it derives "Kerkendal". I'm not sure how the Dutch emphasize the syllables but it's "KIRK-en-dahl" here.
Our street "Elgin" is pronounced with a soft g instead of the hard one found at the front of the drink and there's no y sound marrying the consonant.
Fuqua is properly pronounced "FYU-qway" at least according to the Fuqua I met working at a local energy company. And "San Jacinto" doesn't follow Spanish pronunciation rules and is pronounced "San Jyacinto" not "San Yacinto or San Hacinto." Same with "San Felipe" which is "San fillipee" not "San Fuh-lee-pay."
Yeah the feeder road is the entire parallel road not just the on ramp. Between feeders and regular freeway exits every mile or two it really prevents some of the incredibly dangerous driving I've seen in other parts of the country where people dive for an exit because the next one is 5+ miles away. Because we typically have overpasses for intersections under the freeway it's no big deal if you miss an exit. Just take the next one 1/2 mile or a mile away and make a uturn underneath the freeway. If you aren't going far you can just take the feeder down to your missed exit.
From Houston myself—I’ve mostly seen feeder roads refer to the roads with ramps alongside freeways, not the ramps themselves. Since moving, I’ve seen them called frontage roads elsewhere.
Honestly Houston (and I'm sure the other major cities too) has a bunch of weird pronunciation that marks natives versus folks just lucky enough to move here and I assumed the article was going to go into things like "fixing" or our weird town names.
Here in Houston for example "Kuykendall" Street is pronounced with an R like the Dutch name from which it derives "Kerkendal". I'm not sure how the Dutch emphasize the syllables but it's "KIRK-en-dahl" here.
Our street "Elgin" is pronounced with a soft g instead of the hard one found at the front of the drink and there's no y sound marrying the consonant.
Fuqua is properly pronounced "FYU-qway" at least according to the Fuqua I met working at a local energy company. And "San Jacinto" doesn't follow Spanish pronunciation rules and is pronounced "San Jyacinto" not "San Yacinto or San Hacinto." Same with "San Felipe" which is "San fillipee" not "San Fuh-lee-pay."
Here's an article with more examples.
https://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2013/6/1/whats-in-a-st...