Here are some of the most mispronounced neighborhoods, streets and bridges in NYC

What’s in a name? A lot of lost history.New York City is home to some of the most uniquely named streets, neighborhoods and more — the pronunciations of which have become marbled and mangled over time.7Tourists and residents alike, even locals whose families have been around since the dawn of the country, are guilty of butchering the Dutch tongue that lent its history to the metro area to a point where no one is truly sure what the correct pronunciations are anymore for certain landmarks.The culprit: the very melting pot for which New York is famously known.“What happens is over time, we have people come in and they bring a bit of a language they have here, so a lot of things that were Dutch have become Americanized, which means they lost some of the Dutch color,” explained Mitchell Moss, a linguistics expert at New York University.“There are words that are too hard for people to understand, like the concept of the boroughs.No one uses the word borough, they use Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island … People tend to not adapt to New York speech, they try to fit it into how we speak words, how they pronounce words.”Here are some of the most mispronounced names in New York City:This misstep is perhaps the most well-known, and yet the “most abused,” according to Moss.The iconic street is frequently pronounced like the Texas city, but, like any native New Yorker will tell you, the name should be pronounced as “how-sten.”The major thoroughfare was named after William Houstoun, one of the Founding Fathers of the US, whose father-in-law’s land was once encompassed in the lower Manhattan area.The spelling of the Houstoun became corrupted sometime after 1811, kicking off the confusion that persists today.Directly below the Throggs Neck Bridge and on SUNY Maritime’s campus in the Bronx lies the 18th-century fortification whose name is diecievingly pronounced as “Fort Skylar.” “Everybody who comes from anywhere in the world calls it ‘schooler’ be...