15 Maine Town Names You’ve Probably Been Pronouncing Wrong

To this day, there are people who can't say "Bangor" correctly. It's not "Banger" FYI...

There is something both charming and slightly annoying about the Maine accent. Being in the radio biz, I’ve been trying to lose my Maine accent for years, but every once in a while, it slips out.

As any Mainer knows, the secret to the perfect Maine accent is replacing the '-er' at the end of a word, with the letters '-ah'.

I can tell you that my mother and sister don't make it any easier on me, because they are constantly dropping "R's" and saying things like "cahhh" So it is inevitable that it would rub off on me from time to time.

And as any Maine resident will tell you, there are many, many town names in this state that people will bungle on a regular basis.

Each year, Maine sees a ton of tourists come into the state to visit all that Maine has to offer.

It's always a good time when they ask how to get to a certain town in Maine, and totally screw up the pronunciation.

There are a bunch of cities and towns in the state that are hard as hell to pronounce, so we came up with a list of our favorites.