N'awlins--- that city that the hurricane hit several years ago.

When I lived in Wichita, the rivers that met there were the little and big Ar-KAN-sas...and the name for the merged river remains that way until you follow it 100 miles or so southeast...then it become the Ar-kan-saw.

In St Louis, we drove on streets called "Gravois" (Gra-voice) and "Cabanne Place" (Cabiny)...you'd never know there was a French history to the place to listen to the natives.

Back when there was much trouble in Central America during Reagan's time, I got SO weary of several English reporters telling me about Nick-uh-RAG-you-uh.

and even now, I am befuddled by those who make no effort to pronounce 'Iraq' correctly, even though it is not hard to do. It is NOT "Eye-rack".