Place names are interesting:

Lancaster, Pennsylvania is LANN-KASTER

Here in Indiana there are a lot of old-world place names, with our own Hoosier pronunciations:
Milan (as in Italy) is MY-lun
Brazil, like the country, is BRAY-zil.
Lafayette, like the French General, is sometimes LAY-fee-ette.

Then of course Cairo, Illlinois (like the Egyptian city) is always KAY-ro.

If you ask for a mango in a Southern Indiana grocery, you're likely to get a green pepper, not a tropical fruit.

Dave Oesterreich