Talk:Ooltewah, Tennessee

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Is an Ogg Vorbis file really the most appropriate file type for the pronunciation? Most computers don't have the necessary software to play a file in this format.

I was born in and been around Ooltewah for 54 years. My family has been here for over 100 (both paternal and maternal). The L in Ooltewah is NOT SILENT it is pronounced. The recorded pronunciation is not correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.4.231.55 (talk) 15:13, 3 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Grew up there too. We didn't pronounce the L and we corrected people who did. Judge from the first half-dozen channels that came up in a youtube search for "Ooltewah":
 * "Living in Ooltewah 2021 / Cost of Living / Chattanooga Tennessee"
 * "Ooltewah Neighborhoods | Seven Lakes"
 * "We are Ooltewah"
 * "Ooltewah, Tennessee"
 * "Tour Ooltewah, Apison, and Collegedale, TN With The Paula McDaniel Group"
 * A video on "trying to pronounce Tennessee town names" includes Ooltewah as one of the towns. A lot of bad pronunciations are given, but everything with an 'l' gets flagged wrong; they spell their approved pronunciation as "ooh-dah-wah" and most folks in the comments agree (though there are, indeed, some people who do say the L is pronounced).
 * (semi-off-topic, some Google books results include the extremely interesting sentence "Just above the ferry, the creek Ooltewah (pronounced Walftever) enters the river." Guess we just call it Wolftever now.)
 * If I google "Ooltewah pronounced," currently I get a google widget with an animated face saying it with the legend "Sounds like oo·tuh·waa".
 * Both with-L and without-L pronunciations do certainly exist. And I think that without-L is nowadays more common and more likely to be given as 'correct'. Either way, as the more unusual reading and the one not predictable from the spelling, it probably should have a pronunciation file. —Muke Tever talk 06:08, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

As one of those who grew up in Ooltewah, the meaning of the town's name was always understood to be "Owl's Nest." The Honors Golf Course, situs of the plaque and the caddy shack mentioned in the article, was built by a concern that was not from the area. "Resting Place" certainly sounds a bit more upscale as may suit the needs of this posh golf course, but it is strange that the natives of Ooltewah would most likely raise an eyebrow at that particular etymology. Teo del Fuego — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.66.171.213  (talk • contribs)  04:57, 18 October 2007

Not sure about pronunciation, but I changed "Muskogee" to "Muscogee" and added a link to the Muscogee (Creek) Wiki page. 2607:F140:400:A01D:EC56:6F39:32AB:8369 (talk) 21:53, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

88% population decline
The population of Ooltewah fell from 5,681 (2000 census) to just 687 (2010). That's about an 88% decline. What happened? Kestenbaum (talk) 02:53, 1 November 2013 (UTC)