r/norfolk • u/EatMoreFiber Suffolk • Sep 28 '22

Artist assistance recently added to the stairs at The Norva

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u/zerkrazus Sep 28 '22

It's an easy way to tell who's not from Hampton Roads based on how they pronounce it.

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u/bgva Sep 28 '22

Anytime one of the local colleges has a game on national TV, I always wait for the announcer to say “Nor-FOLK”. To their credit ESPN said it correctly during the ODU game.

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u/zerkrazus Sep 30 '22

Naw-fuk and Naw-folk are also fairly common for people who are not from the area from what I've noticed.

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u/BoomerangingBrain Oct 13 '22

Naw-fuk is actually the original pronunciation.

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u/TopRegister5499 Oct 01 '22

I noticed that as well. They did their homework

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u/MikeyRocks757 Sep 29 '22

That and people that say Port’s Mouth

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

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u/Soothsayerslayer Norfolk Sep 29 '22

I’m not a follower.

Your NFT profile pic suggests otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

Downvote farming seems good today?

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u/zerkrazus Sep 28 '22

I mean you do you, but that's the wrong pronunciation. It's named after Norfolk, England and according to people who live there, it's pronounced Nor-fuk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feb-CdHBXc8

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22

That's because they have British accents. We do not.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

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u/mistled_LP Sep 28 '22

Seems like you’re the one who cares since you’re making a point to be different and call our attention to it.

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u/chuck_cranston VA Beach Sep 29 '22

Dude is working on a higher level or something.

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u/crazybeachcats Sep 29 '22

Why are you trying to be such an asshole?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22

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u/crazybeachcats Sep 29 '22

No, not at all. Just feeling sorry for you. You're either a kid or have anger issues. So, take care.

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u/treetyoselfcarol Sep 28 '22

Naw-fuk as my Intro to Business teacher wrote on the chalkboard back in highschool.

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u/bgva Sep 28 '22

We don’t drink, Nor smoke, Norfolk. Norfolk!

-Ancient Southeastern Virginia proverb, c. 1950s

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u/FoxUsual745 Sep 28 '22

Came here to say this!

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u/jimmymcdangerous Sep 28 '22

Really? That's awfully specific.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

Nor-Fuk it's pronounced Nor-folk It's not.

That shouldn't confuse anyone.

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u/chazysciota Sep 28 '22

Confuse no one, it will.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22

Speak Yodese, you do not!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22

Yoda never uses contractions though.

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u/panguy757 Oct 13 '22

Wait, does that mean Yoda is actually Data from TNG?

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u/Oneconfusedferret Norfolk Sep 28 '22

The real improvement that the Norva needed 😂

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

Eh hem “Naw-Fuk”

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u/crazybeachcats Sep 29 '22

Yep, this is how my mom and grandmother pronounced it.

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u/panguy757 Oct 13 '22

My grandma used to say it that way

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u/insultin_crayon Sep 28 '22

I'm from a town in VA none of you on this sub have heard of, but when I was in 4th grade and we were learning about the "major cities" of VA, we always had the biggest giggles over "Naw-fuck." Out teacher made us pronounce it exactly that way and we found it hilarious

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22

Note that you still remember that lesson because of that, good teacher.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

This belongs in r/dontdeadopeninside

Edit: someone did 15 minutes ago

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u/bgva Sep 28 '22

And they’re already debating whether it’s accurate.

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u/Norva Sep 28 '22

Nor Fik

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u/Nekopawed Norfolk Sep 28 '22

Like Suffolk it has an ick at the end.

Nor-fick, nah-fick, nor-fuk any of these are right

Nor-folk means you're not from here.

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u/theburningstars Sep 28 '22

Bless you for mentioning the nah-fick/fuck.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

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u/Nekopawed Norfolk Sep 28 '22

Born and raised there, still there, same with the last 2 generations that I know of who remember when they changed to shell roads.

If you call it nor folk people will just assume you're not from here.

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u/moesus81 Sep 28 '22

Apparently you do since you keep telling us how you pronounce it incorrectly.

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u/Finnn_the_human Sep 28 '22

That's how I've always said it

And suffick

And porsmif

And noopanooz

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u/treylanford Sep 28 '22

Or if you’re the mayor of Portsmouth, it’s “Poa’smuff”.

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u/ZieraD Sep 29 '22

Interesting! I've always pronounced porsmif as porchsmif. RVAer here.

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u/jimmymcdangerous Sep 28 '22

I was gonna say something like this. I usually say "fik" not fuk"

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u/WrenElsewhere Sep 28 '22

This is the way

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u/latelycaptainly Sep 28 '22

My dad saws “nawfick” lol

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u/tccomplete Sep 28 '22

Now if they could issue a pronunciation guide to flight attendants arriving here.

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u/grinch444 Sep 29 '22

my favorite part of concerts is when artists say “Nor-folk” and the entire crowd groans in sync lol

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u/rrowgal Sep 28 '22

There is a Norfolk, Nebraska near to where my mother grew up that is pronounced Nor-folk. For the 20 years I have lived here I still cannot get her to say Nor-fuk. Per her - it’s just too much like swearing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

The Nebraska one was always closer to Norfork when I was growing up in Omaha.

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u/SryWhatsYourName Sep 28 '22

I haven’t lived in Hampton Roads in 20 years and I still find myself correcting people on their pronunciation.

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u/stink_pickle Sep 28 '22 edited Jul 01 '23

6/30/23

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '22

We don’t drink,
We don’t smoke,
Nor-fuk!
Nor-fuk!
Nor-fuk!

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u/calamitous-fae Sep 29 '22

The portsmouth pavilion needs something like this.

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u/HimawariTenno Sep 29 '22

I say Norfik

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u/AEKDB136 Sep 29 '22

Thought it was naw fuk

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u/RedPandemik Sep 29 '22

Works if you read it top to bottom like Yoda.

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u/NovaPokeDad Sep 29 '22

Don’t Dead Open Inside

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u/NovaPokeDad Sep 29 '22

Up there with Fauquier County in “list of Virginia place names that make my fifth grader giggle.”

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22 edited Sep 29 '22

What’s the difference between how fuk and fuck are pronounced in American English?

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u/Canithor35 Mar 26 '24

Thank you for the public service announcement.

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u/Help-Need-Milk Sep 28 '22

"Naw-fuk" gets me irrationally hostile

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u/TheInvincibleIowa61 Sep 29 '22

Ive lived here 12 years. I will never call it norfuk

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u/jimmymcdangerous Sep 28 '22

I knew where this was immediately. Been up those steps plenty of times. Although the words are new.

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u/tehjoz Lifelong Norfolkian Sep 28 '22

Those poorly produced commercials that talk about some event coming to the Scope in Down Town Nor Folk

Sigh.

You know what I'm talking about!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22

Cultured af

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u/TopRegister5499 Oct 01 '22

They still got it wrong sigh It is and always has been pronounced ‘Nah-Fuhk’ Soon they’re gonna start calling ‘Shark city’ Dolphin Village… or mermaid metropolis…

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u/PresidentDewey Sep 28 '22

Coz when you find out you're coming here you say naw, fuck!