Hauppauge pronunciation

[gruskada]

I've heard people prounounce this about five different ways (i.e. how-pawje, hop-idge, hap-oh-gie...). Anyway, from the horse's mouth:

How do you pronounce Hauppauge?
Hauppauge is a town in NY on Long Island. Hauppauge is pronounced HOP-HOG. The area around the headwaters of the Nissequogue (NISS-I-QUOG) River was dubbed Hauppauge by Native Americans; it means "overflowed land'' in the Algonquian language. Hauppauge boasts a large industrial park which is home to many well known companies.

- from http://www.hauppauge.com/html/faqusb.htm#HOPHOG

gruskada

[groover km]

That's not what I call them when my drivers screw up...

[Chris.Day]

The two ways I've heard it pronounced by Hauppauge staff are "horp-org" and "harp-arg". Oh and one person I know pronounces it "hopper-gee".

[ricklous]

That's not what I call them when my drivers screw up...

lolololololol
think we can all second that from time to time....

[capone]

If you're still in doubt, you can just ask someone from New Yawk City, since it's right on Lon'giland.

Yous got a problem wit 'dat?

[betlit]

most people in the german speaking part of europe tend to pronounce it as it would be a german word... sort of 'how-pp-owghe' or something.
guess this is mostly because 'auge' means 'eye' in german.

[sub]

I've always said something like "harp-arg", but I've never been sure.

[bgowland]

...tend to pronounce it as it would be a german word... sort of 'how-pp-owghe'

That's pretty much how I pronounce it - I did German at school and I assumed it was of German origin.

[gruskada]

That's pretty much how I pronounce it - I did German at school and I assumed it was of German origin.

I always figured it was German, too, but I don't know German at all, so I used to pronounce it something like "haw-pawje".

gruskada

[capone]

I always figured it was German, too, but I don't know German at all, so I used to pronounce it something like "haw-pawje".

NY has a lot of Dutch, German, and Native American names, so it could have been. But once a word becomes a city name, pronouciation is anything can happen day.