Texas city names are notoriously hard to pronounce. From medium-level difficulty towns like “Boerne” to expert-level areas like “Nacogdoches,” it’s easy to doubt your ability to understand English.<\/p>\n
KCEN anchor<\/a> Adrian Carbajal\u00a0recently moved to the Waco area, and figured this out\u00a0the hard way in a social media<\/a> stunt this month. His colleague,\u00a0Baylee Bates, had him attempt to sound out local destinations in a video on Friday, October 3.<\/p>\n Carbajal, who is originally from Los Angeles, California, said he was “100 percent” sure he’d sound them out correctly. However, he folded at his first test, which was Buda, a city about 60 miles north of San Antonio.<\/p>\n Pronounced “Byoo-duh,” like “beautiful,” he opted for the safe route, guessing\u00a0it was “Buh-duh.” After seeing the looks on his coworkers’ faces, he took a few more stabs at it before getting it right around the third try.\u00a0His next challenge was Llano, which is Northwest of Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I feel like I should know this one,” Carbajal said. “Lay-no? Lah-no? Yah-no?”<\/p>\n Looking around for help, a staff member encouraged him to “forget every bit of Spanish” he ever learned to nail it. Finally, Bates revealed the answer as “Lahn-o.”<\/p>\n “I just went out\u00a0there,” he said, shocked.<\/p>\n Carbajal’s final trial was not butchering the name Gruene, a cozy neighborhood based in New Braunfels. Nervous, he asked, “Grehn-ee?” then, “Gru-ehn?”\u00a0<\/p>\n When it was revealed to be “Green,” he was dumbfounded.<\/p>\n “That’s not ‘Green’!” he exclaimed.<\/p>\n “The struggle is real,” Bates captioned the TikTok post. “Would you pass the Texas city name test?”<\/p>\n The video gathered roughly 388,000 views and over 500 comments, with several residents saying they, too, get some of these titles wrong. Others begged for a part two, pleading with Bates to see if he can get right places like “Schertz” and “Waxahachie,” the latter\u00a0of which is perhaps among\u00a0the most cruel.<\/p>\n “I have lived in Texas my whole life and still can’t pronounce some of them right,” San Antonio realtor Will Glover commented on the post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bates continued the series in a follow-up clip on Tuesday, October 7. It includes Bexar County,\u00a0Boerne, and\u00a0Manor.<\/p>\n “I feel like everything has a twist,” Carbajal said in the video<\/a>. “[It’s like] ‘What is the dumbest way you can pronounce this word?’ And then that one’s it.”<\/p>\n