I grew up in the US southwest, where we had things like:

Tucson -- pronounced TOO-sawn;

Ajo Way -- a street, pronounced AH-ho;

La Cholla -- CHOY-ya, which is obvious if you studied Spanish, but then there's...

Alameda St. -- which you'd think would be pronounced the Spanish way but is really "Al-ah-meeee-da".

Then I moved up here (Washington state) and ran into Pend Orielle which is a handy touchstone for whether you're from around here or not.

("Pawn Doh-rey")

I totally butchered it at first with my southwest Mexi-drawl.

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