How come cities and towns that can be said in three syllables have so much appeal for road trips?

Question

OK, I was with a few friends and we were discussing possible towns and venues to go to on a road trip. We started drinking heavily, and then we got to this 3 syllable concept. We started pounding our fists on the table, calling out the names of potential destinations, in clear-cut 3 syllable verbiage. We noticed that by far the best places flowed easily, while the lame places sounded forced.

Here are a few examples:

Sask---a----toon

Ed-mon-ton

Van---cou----ver

When we tried to say Toronto, it sounded forced with the 3 syllables, so it was removed (rightfully so). So…my question is, were we just drinking too much, or do the really cool places to visit work out well with the three syllables, and the lame places sound forced??? Minneapolis doesn’t work, but Louisville does. See what I mean???

Answer 1

Probably drinking too much! HAHA! But Loo-eee-vill is a really cool place to visit! :)

Actually, some of us who live here only say 2 (maybe 2 1/2) syllables:

Loo-vuhll or Looi-vuhll

C'mon down and visit the River City! :)

Answer 2

I don't think that it has anything to do with places. Three syllables are more euphonious than words with fewer or more syllables and somehow easier to say.
I have a hunch that the Canadian "Eh?" has a lot to do with creating that extra, soothing syllable. Good question!

Answer 3

I never thought about it before. You do have a point...but there have to be cool places to visit that don't apply...like new york city or something...i dunno...it is hard to think of them now that u said it