How do you pronounce Skaneateles?
 

How do you pronounce the name of this town in the Finger Lakes of NY?
(so we don't make idiots of ourselves when we go there.)

Scan-ee-at-uh-less

I used 2 live in Syracuse.

I live about a 1/2 hour away.
You will love it there. We enjoy going there often to look through the little shops and have lunch at the Blue water cafe. There are some nice restaurants there. The dinner boat cruise is very nice also. Have a nice time.
Christmas time is beautiful there when the city is decked out like a Dickens Christmas carol.

sken-e-atless.... said quite fast LOL
Lived a 1/2 hour away all of my life

skinny-at-less

There are variations in how folks in the area pronounce it. I think the "skin" varaition is a bit more common than the "sken". Binthair offers the phonetic spelling that's closest to what I've heard for most of my life but I think "skinny-atlas" is the closest of all. Yes.... I have also lived in the area for the great majority of my years.

My Boss lives there and I've been there several times for meetings. BEAUTIFUL place -- I agree with the prior posting as the easiest way to say it skinny-at-less (and say it fast like the other one said) with emphasis on "at".

If you say the way some of the other area people have spelled it in earlier replies its just a matter of regional accents and how fast it spills out of your mouth. Its best to say it fast and kinda mumble thru it like you've lived there all your life :-)

So if Minneapolis = "minny-APP-less" then Skaneateles = "skinny-ATT-less"?

skinny-AT-a-lass with an emphasis on the AT. The Minneapolis reference is correct with its emphasis. LMF

skinny-atlas - my sister and brother-in-law live in Syracuse and drove me to this lake and kept pronouncing it as this.

Thanks! So many nice people!
Linda

A good friend of mine is part of the family that owns The Pines Complex. She always pronounced it with the skinny.