re: #157 wrenchwench

How about “Des Plaines” (IL).

Hint. Not like it came from the French or something…

Like ‘Baton Rouge’ and the Tetons.

We have a lot of French place names in the US which we determinedly pronounce the way we want to pronounce them.

Our accent is probably just as bad on the Indian place names, but there it is.

There’s a street in San Francisco called Arguello. That’s ar-GWELL-o. On Cabrillo Street, we split, some locals say “Ca-BREE-yo” and others “Ca-BRILL-o”)

The rabbi of the Sephardic synagogue off Geary Boulevard, however, says “Ca-BREEL-yo”.