It's comical at this point: there are some very specific words that ten times out of ten people who don't live in the Yakima Valley will say incorrectly. Even that map app in your "smart" phone doesn't get it right

* laughs in Waze and Google Maps *

The Most Mispronounced Words You'll Hear in the Yakima Valley

Quick, somebody come get GPS on the phone and tell them to stop saying "SELAH" wrong. Throw in the words "AHTANUM ROAD" and "NACHES AVE" in there, too.

While we're at it, I know I'm not the only one who cringes when out-of-towners try to say Buena (it's pronounced Bew-waynuh).

The biggest word of them all that gets mispronounced when people are talking about the Yakima Valley is the word YAKIMA itself.

I'm even guilty as charged. Before I moved to the Valley, I thought it w

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