Wilbur ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Share #1 Posted January 5, 2018 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Share #2 Posted January 5, 2018 Just now, Wilbur said: ? I pronounce it just aboot like it looks. Wilks bar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 5, 2018 Share #3 Posted January 5, 2018 Wilks Bare E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Share #4 Posted January 5, 2018 Looks like Wikipedia agrees with Airehead and not me. Wilkes-Barre (/ˈwɪlksˌbɛər/ or /-bɛəri/) (Probably edited by Michael Scott. ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Share #5 Posted January 5, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share #6 Posted January 5, 2018 It is a primary navigation aid when flying into Newark and other NE airports from the north, so I hear it a lot on the radio. Controllers and pilots have said: Wilks Bar Wilks Bare Wilks Berry Wilks Bar-E I still talk a little like a Texican and tend to go all one word like Wilksbury or Wilksbree 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Share #7 Posted January 5, 2018 Incorrectly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Share #8 Posted January 5, 2018 Then they should pronounce it wilk ees Bar eee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 5, 2018 Share #9 Posted January 5, 2018 Wilkes bear a. Short A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Share #10 Posted January 5, 2018 9 minutes ago, Kzoo said: Wilkes bear a. Short A Long e dangit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted January 5, 2018 Share #11 Posted January 5, 2018 9 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Long e dangit! I was there recently and that's how the locals (that I heard) said it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted January 5, 2018 Share #12 Posted January 5, 2018 Our AHL hockey team is there. I hear it as Wilkes Berry on all broadcasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 5, 2018 Share #13 Posted January 5, 2018 2 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Looks like Wikipedia agrees with Airehead and not me. Wilkes-Barre (/ˈwɪlksˌbɛər/ or /-bɛəri/) (Probably edited by Michael Scott. ) Dammit! At least now I know in case I have to use it in a sentence! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadiejorge Posted January 5, 2018 Share #14 Posted January 5, 2018 Twinkie Bar-eh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 5, 2018 Share #15 Posted January 5, 2018 My mother, who grew up there, pronounced it "Wilks Bare-ruh" - the last word pronounced just like "Sarah" with a B replacing the S. I spent some of my teenage summers there (actually in Lynnwood, along the Susquehanna just south of Wilkes-Barre city limits), living with one of my aunts' family, playing baseball in the Lynnwood-Breslau-Iona little league, playing along the river, hiking up to Tillsbury Knob, looking for fossils on the coal slag heaps, etc. EVERYONE I ever met in my youth living there called it the same as my mother. BUT...I'm still friends with many of my first and second cousins who still live in that area and when I drive up to visit or for weddings, etc. I hear the radio stations call it "Wilks Barry." I asked my cousins about it and they say it's apparently more correct and more locals are now using that pronunciation. That's all I know. I just spoke earlier this evening by phone with a cousin living in Kingston, on the other side of the river from Wilkes-Barre. Next time I talk to her - within a week - I'll ask her if she knows any more about the "Barry" phenomenon or who else does. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted January 5, 2018 Share #16 Posted January 5, 2018 7 hours ago, Prophet Zacharia said: Our AHL hockey team is there. I hear it as Wilkes Berry on all broadcasts. If it's sports they're bound to have it wrong, Shirley. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted January 5, 2018 Share #17 Posted January 5, 2018 The alternative pronunciation is “Scranton”. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2018 Share #18 Posted January 5, 2018 I just call it Scranton. Pretty much all one town for a 40 mile stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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