In article YSPme.21320$IC6.15683@attbi_s72,
StellaStarr wrote:
CJ wrote:
"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"CJ" wrote in message ...

I guess for someone
familiar with Seattle it is a faux pas comparable to when I hear people
mispronounce "Nevada".


In Iowa, that'd be ne-VAY'-duh.
About 30 miles northeast of Madrid (MADD'-ridd)


Even more fun, there is the Arkansas River. Which is *NOT* pronounced like
the similarly-named State.

And pity the person who has to deal with both
Des Moines, Iowa and
Des Plaines, Illinois

Let alone "Mar-SAILS" Illinois.