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>America is at least as guilty of mispronouncing non-english words it's just natural drift.

See also: Cairo, IL or Versailles, KY...



Is the Illinois one the same pronunciation as "KAY-ro", Georgia?


Not just Americans! I will add the small town of L'Ardoise, NS, pronounced "Lordways".


Notre Dame, IN


Or Wilkes-Barre, PA


Or Montpelier, VT!


Delhi, Ca -> Del-High

Fontainebleau State Park -> Fountain Blue State Park

These were two off the ones that really stood out from my travels.


Or Pueblo, Salida and Buena Vista CO


Birmingham, AL


Detroit, MI


Calais, ME




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