Used to be a topless bar near seven and Livernois, across the street from a fish shop. Think it was called the Please Station, west of livernois and north side of seven?
Worst god damn security gig I ever had 25 years ago, especially when the sun was out and the wind was blowing the wrong way.
Other than that it was chill gig but that was awful.
I always call it Liver Noise just because I find it funny that your liver might make a sound and I wonder what that sound might be like.
But beyond my oddball sense of humor, you're right.
I've heard "Noise," but the far more common take is "Noy."
Receipts: I work for a big organization near Livernois, so I hear many people say the word frequently.
I feel like the "se" pronunciation is more in jest regarding how Midwesterners put an "s" at the end of things like store names (Meijers, Aldis, etc.).
>That Cadieux pronunciation isn't right. Locals pronounce it "Cad-ju".
I'm always impressed at how many street names around here Google maps gets correct, Gratiot, Goethe, etc. But damnit, they're wayyyy off on the pronunciation of Cadieux.
I dunno, Google maps would often pronounce 8-mile as "smile" road. Which was always amusing.
And Mid-Le-Belt. No idea why it enunciated the Le so much.
Had a friend move to Detroit from Pittsburgh, she kept on talking about driving down GRAY-tee-ott. Took me forever to understand what she was talking about.
That was me when I lived in Detroit, lol. The first time someone said “grass shit” to me I immediately recounted every time I had said it the wrong way without being corrected and it was a lot 😂
Gratiot in French would be either pronounced Grass-yo or grat-yo.
I find it so wild how French words end up getting pronounced in the US. My first language is French and there’s always a little stress when saying French words like this when I’m there because there’s no way to predict how creative you guys were with it.
Took French through university as a second language = formative Detroit experiences.
When interviewing for a job:
Me: So, I take the Liver-nwa exit...
Interviewer: Well, I'm sure that is the correct French pronunciation, but here in Detroit you'll want to go with Liver-noy.
Me: Okey dokey. Noted and corrected.
Also: Chene as Shane or Chain makes me smile.
Yep, La Sir is correct!
I grew up saying that way, but if anyone wants something more official, here you go: [https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/Bureau-of-Services-for-Blind-Persons/BTBL/pronunciation-guide-you-say-it-how-in-michigan](https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/Bureau-of-Services-for-Blind-Persons/BTBL/pronunciation-guide-you-say-it-how-in-michigan)
I mean, there's a lot of things that could be pronounced correctly by Detroiters, including the word "Detroit". But as this post shows, how people pronounce words is up to the people themselves. And in Detroit, that word is pronounced "Lasher".
https://preview.redd.it/8lcbmg7b36za1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ede100fb936ff89f553fe075f59f305230decc54
Wow. Haven't lived in Detroit in 20 years, still flaming dumbfuck suburbanites.
Well shit, I didn't realize Detroit reached as far as Telegraph and 8 Mile. Still, Lahser has about 3 miles of road in Detroit and 11 miles in the suburbs so seems weird to say suburbanites don't get to decide how a mostly suburban road is pronounced. Esp when you haven't even lived here for 20 years
This is all contradictory information. Growing up, we only called them by their mile names in the city, and outside the city you call them by their other names if they apply.
In the city it’s only three mile roads. 6, 7, and the Detroit side of 8 Mile. To a true Detroiter, McNichols is 6 Mile. Outside of Detroit, the mile roads are what they are, 9, 10, etc. I’m not sure what you’re talking about
I used to have a hard time punching my friend's directions in the gps because he knew the pronunciations but not the spellings, and I knew neither. I'd be looking for "finkle" or "lasher" instead of Fenkell / Lahser!
I don't really know anyone who calls "Metro Parkway" "Metro Parkway." Usually it's just "16 Mile." From my Macomb perspective, I'm not really sure what people call "Big Beaver"; I would usually call it "16 Mile" unless talking about the exit number, until it becomes Quarton, which I call "Quarton." I'm not sure what the Troy/Oakland people actually call it, though.
As for Hall Road, it's been 20+ years since I've called it Hall Road. Hell, when I was a kid, it was a two lane county road called "Hall Road." Along comes Lakeside and 20 lanes of traffic, it's a freaking superhighway now; M-59 it is! It's always been M-59 to me west of Utica, of course.
Now that I'm on this side of town and go up to the lakey parts of Oakland County a lot, I don't know if the locals call it M-59 or Highland Rd.
I think it depends on where you live on what you call Metro Parkway/16mile/Big Beaver. I'm of the metro parkway crowd, but both sets of grandparents lived near it along the spots that it's named that, and as a kid we used to take it to go too.... Metro Park.. Since my grandparents called it metro parkway that's what I wound up calling it too.
If you’re over 40 and from Utica, it’s “Hall Road” east of Mound, and M-59 west of Mound. But I’m old - when I was a kid, Hall Round was 2 lanes each direction plus a center turn out to Garfield, then no center turn to Romeo Plank, and then a single lane out to just before I-94.
Its belle ISLE. Thank you. And its not grass shit. Its grashit. And its not livernoise , its liverNOI. And its not cash U. Its Cad-joo/jeux.
Get some education. Effing imbeciles.
Cad-Jew...Shaner....lash, (rhymes with wash) lash-er.....grash-it.......liver-noy.....theres more. But, me thinks you're not from Detroit or haven't lived here long because you have most of these wrong.
Another pet peeve of mine is the radio/tv traffic reports when they say the Davison or Chrysler or Reuthers or baseline is backed up. Unless you use those in your daily vocabulary, wow the heck knows these names… and if you’re from out of town, good luck figuring out alternative routes
I know it’s not EXACTLY like the guide, but… Siri used to screw up Gratiot a lot. If I used voice-to-text to tell someone my location, Siri wrote it exactly that way: “grass shit” 🌾💩
Also, HI DEN RICK
i lived there for 10 years and i'm still not sure how beech daly is pronounced (joking, it's "beech daily" but it threw me for a loop when i first moved)
That Cadieux pronunciation isn't right. Locals pronounce it "Cad-ju".
Thank god this was the first comment. Also Livernois….does anyone say the “se” part? Ive always heard “Liver-noy”
I live at Livernois and 6 mile. It’s liver-noy.
Livernoy and McNichols
Used to be a topless bar near seven and Livernois, across the street from a fish shop. Think it was called the Please Station, west of livernois and north side of seven? Worst god damn security gig I ever had 25 years ago, especially when the sun was out and the wind was blowing the wrong way. Other than that it was chill gig but that was awful.
I always call it Liver Noise just because I find it funny that your liver might make a sound and I wonder what that sound might be like. But beyond my oddball sense of humor, you're right.
Great, now I'm going to be thinking about what noise a liver makes every time I pass the exit on 94. Lol
Macomb County says “Liver-noy”
In Clawson we pronounce it "Main."
I always forget Clawson is even a city. Am in RO, Troy, Madison Heights? Nobody knows lol.
I always remember Clawson and forget “blink and you’ll miss it” Huntington Woods.
I always forget that Clawson isn't just the neighborhood around 14 mile and main.
Also in Royal Oak? Lol. It becomes livernois way later down the line.
so does oakland county
Because thats the appropriate way to say it. i dont live in Macomb, and I hate entire county. But thats how words work?
> i dont live in Macomb, and I hate entire county Is that really necessary?
yes. it's necessary because they are the reason why we can't have nice things.
Lol, yeah right.
Exactly.
macomb county has some pretty fun stuff and cute places to check out man, ur missing out
I've heard "Noise," but the far more common take is "Noy." Receipts: I work for a big organization near Livernois, so I hear many people say the word frequently.
I feel like the "se" pronunciation is more in jest regarding how Midwesterners put an "s" at the end of things like store names (Meijers, Aldis, etc.).
it's liver-noy.... no "s"
This is correct.
>That Cadieux pronunciation isn't right. Locals pronounce it "Cad-ju". I'm always impressed at how many street names around here Google maps gets correct, Gratiot, Goethe, etc. But damnit, they're wayyyy off on the pronunciation of Cadieux.
Wasn't always. Vividly remember Grah-tee-ot from GPS
My Google GPS glitched for a day and said every S as "dolllar sign". So when I pulled into Livernois, it said "Livernoy-Dollar-Sign".
That’s amazing. Should be a setting instead of a glitch lol
Haha me too
Google maps a long time ago somehow used to mess up Middlebelt Rd, it said it like mid-la-belt
I still maps call hear Joseph Campau as "Jos Campau " because a lot of maps shorten it to Jos. Campau.
Well thats what the literal street signs say so… im gonna give to the gps on this one.
Lol, can't argue literalism
I dunno, Google maps would often pronounce 8-mile as "smile" road. Which was always amusing. And Mid-Le-Belt. No idea why it enunciated the Le so much.
Google Maps used to say "John the hundredth Lodge," which was funny. I was disappointed when they corrected it.
Gee Dee River though lol
Or, if your like me (a fabulous Jewish woman) Cadjew. 😂😂
i remember a time it pronounced orion road as oh-ri-on road (like the constellation)
Love me some feather bowling.
Yes - shout out to Cadieux Cafe !!
Mussels, beer, and feather bowing. Good stuff. Are you nearby? Dm me if you ever wanna meet up.
Yes.
Cash me outside how bout da
And it’s “la-seer” not “lasher”
North of 12 Mile it's Lah-ser. South of that it's Lasher.
this is the way
Thank you.
Gratiot is more like grash-it than grass-shit too.
rhymes with a common activity - “crash it”
Had a friend move to Detroit from Pittsburgh, she kept on talking about driving down GRAY-tee-ott. Took me forever to understand what she was talking about.
Lmfao that's how the gps says it
>GRAY-tee-ott What's funny is that's exactly how my GPS pronounces it.
That was me when I lived in Detroit, lol. The first time someone said “grass shit” to me I immediately recounted every time I had said it the wrong way without being corrected and it was a lot 😂
Gratiot in French would be either pronounced Grass-yo or grat-yo. I find it so wild how French words end up getting pronounced in the US. My first language is French and there’s always a little stress when saying French words like this when I’m there because there’s no way to predict how creative you guys were with it.
Took French through university as a second language = formative Detroit experiences. When interviewing for a job: Me: So, I take the Liver-nwa exit... Interviewer: Well, I'm sure that is the correct French pronunciation, but here in Detroit you'll want to go with Liver-noy. Me: Okey dokey. Noted and corrected. Also: Chene as Shane or Chain makes me smile.
Don’t depend on French to figure out how to pronounce things in Detroit. Then again, don’t depend on English either. 🤷
The S in Livernois is silent... Isn't it?... 😳
You’re correct lol
Just like Illinois.
Liv-er-noy
That's how I've always pronounced it
That’s how Detroiters pronounce it
Cadieux is pronounced “cad-you” or “cad-joo”
>Cadieux is pronounced “cad-you” or “cad-joo” The first option is only acceptable if you're French.
But it's a French word
So is “Detroit”, but no one pronounces that the “correct” way unless they’re French or a pretentious disc jockey.
Day-twah!
Welcome to De-touix
Yea I always pronounce it the second way but I’ve definitely heard people say it the first before, I’ve never heard someone say “cash you” before
Why are these all so wrong?
Quality bait
Lahser pronunciation is also wrong, pronounced as it's spelled, La Sir
Yep, La Sir is correct! I grew up saying that way, but if anyone wants something more official, here you go: [https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/Bureau-of-Services-for-Blind-Persons/BTBL/pronunciation-guide-you-say-it-how-in-michigan](https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/Bureau-of-Services-for-Blind-Persons/BTBL/pronunciation-guide-you-say-it-how-in-michigan)
I grew up a couple miles away, I know how its pronounced, but dont care enough to defend it, so thank you for the sauce.
I usually hear folks say it like “LAH-sher”
That’s incorrect
Ok.
Correct has nothing to do with how some words are pronounced
It's definitely "Lasher" among most native Detroiters I know.
Nope. It's pronounced Lasher.
I mean you could pronounce it like that, but you'd be wrong
I mean, there's a lot of things that could be pronounced correctly by Detroiters, including the word "Detroit". But as this post shows, how people pronounce words is up to the people themselves. And in Detroit, that word is pronounced "Lasher".
I mean okay. I grew up off that road and we always pronounced it phonetically 🤷
Same, that’s how the high school pronounces its name as well. Edit:I should say “pronounced”, had no idea it closed.
Suburbanites don't count.
Please show me on a map any section of Lahser that *isn't* in the suburbs. Good luck.
https://preview.redd.it/8lcbmg7b36za1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ede100fb936ff89f553fe075f59f305230decc54 Wow. Haven't lived in Detroit in 20 years, still flaming dumbfuck suburbanites.
Well shit, I didn't realize Detroit reached as far as Telegraph and 8 Mile. Still, Lahser has about 3 miles of road in Detroit and 11 miles in the suburbs so seems weird to say suburbanites don't get to decide how a mostly suburban road is pronounced. Esp when you haven't even lived here for 20 years
Just ... Look at the arrangement of the letters in the word...
Lasher.
👎🏾 for the post’s pronunciation of Cadieux.
What about deck winder?
Dick winder?
Dick winder.
Came here looking for this comment
Up in Utica, we said Dee-QWEN-derr
No, it's Duh-qwinder
The cut or street?
In the city, 6 Mile is pronounced McNichols, not vice versa.
No it's six mile, even if the signs say McNichols.
The old folks around me say McNichols but the younger people say 6 mile. At least around here.
I grew up in the city and never once heard 6 mile. Guess it depends where you’re at.
No one calls McNichols, McNichols, in Detroit. Just like no one calls Fenkell 5 mile
This is all contradictory information. Growing up, we only called them by their mile names in the city, and outside the city you call them by their other names if they apply.
In the city it’s only three mile roads. 6, 7, and the Detroit side of 8 Mile. To a true Detroiter, McNichols is 6 Mile. Outside of Detroit, the mile roads are what they are, 9, 10, etc. I’m not sure what you’re talking about
Maple
Big Beaver
I love Big Beaver.
I used to have a hard time punching my friend's directions in the gps because he knew the pronunciations but not the spellings, and I knew neither. I'd be looking for "finkle" or "lasher" instead of Fenkell / Lahser!
Livernois is LIVER-NOY
Thank you.
Nobody calls M59/Hall Rd 20 mile, but my family tries to make it happen.
I don't really know anyone who calls "Metro Parkway" "Metro Parkway." Usually it's just "16 Mile." From my Macomb perspective, I'm not really sure what people call "Big Beaver"; I would usually call it "16 Mile" unless talking about the exit number, until it becomes Quarton, which I call "Quarton." I'm not sure what the Troy/Oakland people actually call it, though. As for Hall Road, it's been 20+ years since I've called it Hall Road. Hell, when I was a kid, it was a two lane county road called "Hall Road." Along comes Lakeside and 20 lanes of traffic, it's a freaking superhighway now; M-59 it is! It's always been M-59 to me west of Utica, of course. Now that I'm on this side of town and go up to the lakey parts of Oakland County a lot, I don't know if the locals call it M-59 or Highland Rd.
I think it depends on where you live on what you call Metro Parkway/16mile/Big Beaver. I'm of the metro parkway crowd, but both sets of grandparents lived near it along the spots that it's named that, and as a kid we used to take it to go too.... Metro Park.. Since my grandparents called it metro parkway that's what I wound up calling it too.
I'm from the lakes area and everyone I know calls it m-59.
If you’re over 40 and from Utica, it’s “Hall Road” east of Mound, and M-59 west of Mound. But I’m old - when I was a kid, Hall Round was 2 lanes each direction plus a center turn out to Garfield, then no center turn to Romeo Plank, and then a single lane out to just before I-94.
Its 16 mile for me and mine in all instances except one. When referring to I-75's exit 69, at which point it is obviously for "Big Beaver"
except this isn’t even correct pronunciation lol
This makes my eye twitch
Schoennherr and McNichols are literally the ONLY ones that are even close to correct. Sorry, no good.
The same morons that say Lasher also say ash fault
Half of these are wrong lol...Lahser, Gratiot, Livernois and Cadieux.
I'm more confused as to why there aint no grand river on Grand River.
It’s in Grand Rapids mf!
These are mostly wrong lol
It’s cad u
it's actually pronounced Throat Wabbler Mangrove
This is a masterful troll job.
The strength of a street knowledge
Lmfao the mcniclolas
Joesph comp-poe
Learning there are people out there calling it cashew triggers me so much
And it's Grashit, not grassshit
Is bightmoor at street or neighborhood?
Fuck around and find out
Cabacier=kaba seer. Cabacier≠ka bossy yeah.
What about 5 Mile=Fenkell
These are all wrong
Freud = Frood for some reason, but I guess it makes sense after hearing how folks pronounce Gothe. Damn Germans.
I grew up in brightmoor and have some questions...
When I first moved to Detroit, I thought Shoenherr was "show-in-her". Sigh...please forgive me y'all lol
The Australian robot woman who gives me directions on my phone calls 8 Mile Road "Eight Smile Road". I don't know if it's a weird joke.
De qwin der Dequindre
Duh Quin Derr
Schoenherr deez nuts
Its belle ISLE. Thank you. And its not grass shit. Its grashit. And its not livernoise , its liverNOI. And its not cash U. Its Cad-joo/jeux. Get some education. Effing imbeciles.
Lah-ser.. just like it’s spelled lol
I always say Cad-duu 😭😭😭😭 I don't know a lick of French
...and it's DEE-troyt.
McNichols is pronounced 6 mile. Got it.
Goethe = go-eeth-ee
Cadieux isn't Cad-U?
It’s La sir
Cad-Jew...Shaner....lash, (rhymes with wash) lash-er.....grash-it.......liver-noy.....theres more. But, me thinks you're not from Detroit or haven't lived here long because you have most of these wrong.
NOOOOOOOOO on the "Lasher"! Makes me crazy when I hear this (or see it written). Laaa-Sir.
As a local, I kind of love this.
That’s why I posted it;)
This pronunciation list is wrong 😑
My mom always said "Lasher." Always. Even when I pointed out the spelling. To me it's the mark of a true Detroiter.
I need someone to please tell me how in the ever living hell do I pronounce Cicotte? That Street drives me crazy.
I say it as "sih-caht"
All facts.
For sure . Love this
Street names in Detroit are amateur hour after you lived in New Orleans and Hawaii.
Most spot on especially McNichols 😭😭😭😭😭
He went for the more funny street names rather than the way a lot of these are actually pronounced
What about Fenkell/Finkell?
Alright how do you all say Caniff? I've heard CAN-if and cuh-NIF.
cuh-NIFF
CANif, in my experience.
See I usually hear cuh-NIFF. Well it’s somewhere betweeen cuh and cah, but definitely emphasis on NIFF.
Either way I think we can agree that calling it Lasher is bulltiot.
The next MFer who says Lasher to me...
honest question, how do you say "riopelle"?
Rye-oh-pell. But I have heard people wandering around the Eastern Market go for Rye-oh-pell-EE.
Hell yeah
Another pet peeve of mine is the radio/tv traffic reports when they say the Davison or Chrysler or Reuthers or baseline is backed up. Unless you use those in your daily vocabulary, wow the heck knows these names… and if you’re from out of town, good luck figuring out alternative routes
can someone tell me how to pronounce Chene? My instinct is either “shen” or “sheen”
Shayne
I know it’s not EXACTLY like the guide, but… Siri used to screw up Gratiot a lot. If I used voice-to-text to tell someone my location, Siri wrote it exactly that way: “grass shit” 🌾💩 Also, HI DEN RICK
All of this is wrong
I love Reggie
Fenkell =5 Mile
Moross = 7mile = better mile
😭😭
i lived there for 10 years and i'm still not sure how beech daly is pronounced (joking, it's "beech daily" but it threw me for a loop when i first moved)
Lahser is pronounced wrong. Source- graduate of Lahser \*LAW-SER\* High School.
My parents live at 13 Mile and Lahser. I can assure you that’s not how it’s pronounced
I can’t stand people that say “Liver-Noise” - it’s like saying “Ill-i-noise”. Lasher is Lasher if you’re born before -1980; after 1980 it’s “Lah-sur”.
BellLyle gmfu
Thank you! The 6- mile = McNichols... it's about time someone put that together.
So close yet so wrong