I had trouble (at first) with indian names in Washington when i visited Seattle, (just as many have trouble with east coast indian place names)

once i got used to the names, i could make a good guess at how to say them.

every language divides up words into sylabils slightly differently, and there are different 'silent' (or virtuately silent because an untrained ear doesn't hear the difference) letters in different languages..

Hohokus or Quogue or wynadanch are easy for anyone to parse,but the others are less so. (ho-hokus is the easies, wynadanch is the hardest)--

i would have guessed
puy like buy (not like goo)
all as uhll (not quite Al or gal, more of a schwa)
and up the same (Uhp) not Up
(together some thing like Pile up run together (as in there was a 13 car pileup on the expressway)(said as a redneck)

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