You’re saying these Long Island towns wrong — even the ones you think you know: ‘Butchered’

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You’re saying these Long Island towns wrong — even the ones you think you know: ‘Butchered’

This will have you spit out your “cawffee.”It’s a dead giveaway that someone isn’t from Long Island if they bungle how to pronounce local communities – but it turns out even 516 and 631 lifers are doing it wrong.Teams like the New York Islanders and Long Island Ducks even post videos of out-of-town players brutally mincing Wantagh, Patchogue and other Native-American names.But you may not have to venture far to find folks messing up Massapequa and Ronkonkoma, which have been anglicized over the past few centuries. Their real pronunciations sound unrecognizable to the modern ear, according to former longtime Unkechaug ..