11 letters made from two names separated by a hyphen. Sound simple right? Wilkes Bar. Do you ever hear anybody say it different? All the time. What do they say? Wilkes Berry. But the correct way is... Wilkes Bar. Bar. With two hours. Wilkes Berry. Wilkes Berry. Wilkes Berry. Wilkes Berry. We are in a place named for John Wilkes and Isaac Berry. I have my theories of why there's a bunch of pronunciations. Curator of the Preservation Society that bears the city's name, Tony Brooks says that those theories center around the Wyoming Valley's immigrants. You come to this very odd naming town with a hyphen in it, two to boot and I think they just mispronounced it. That's all. And then that their children and their grandchildren then pronounce all these variations. A lot of people think it's one word and it's wise you see it's two. Oh, Wilkes Berry. Wilkes Berry. Wilkes Berry. Actually the only hyphenated city in America. There's another hyphenated city on North Carolina, Winston, Salem, but they were two different cities put together. So we're not two different cities or the same city. Mayor Brown says even with being the largest city in Luzorne County, the name after the hyphen is just as confusing to locals as it is to visitors. It's so uncommon in name and it happens all the time. We've had people that perform it to curb you and pronounce it the wrong way. Try to get up on a shout and they say, hey wait a minute, I'm the mayor, it's Wilkes Berry. Ironic since Isaac Berry is quite the popular guy. He has two other towns named for him. There's Barry Vermont and Barry Massachusetts and you know if you call up to those towns no one has a difficulty in pronouncing the name. The proper French pronunciation Wilkes Berry. Webensier, say cum sa, because he was an Irishman of French derivation. His name was Barry. Barry. Looks Barry. Looks Barry. Something's going up. Wilkes Berry. We're in Wilkes Berry. Whether you call it Wilkes Berry, Wilkes Bar, Wilkes Berry. Come on out. It's a great city. It's a beautiful city. Wilkes Berry is the correct pronunciation. This guy just informed me for everybody out there. I made a mistake the first time. Different outfit, different answer. Now I know the correct pronunciation. His Wilkes Berry. Now Wilkes Bar. Wilkes Berry everybody. Reporting in Wilkes, Barry. I'm Chris Vohensky, 28-22. I witness news.