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Gonna pick this thread to drop some random trivia. A county near mine is named Montague. Being a good little English Lit nerd, upon moving to Texas I proceeded to pronounce it "Mon Tuh Gyoo" (rhymes with "view"), because in Romeo and Juliet that's the only pronunciation that preserves the meter and rhyme scheme. I was quickly informed that it's "Mon Tayg" (rhymes with "vague"). This is not insane, but it is very annoying.
I used to live near a town called Nevada (nuh-vay-duh), and boy was it fun to rule them up by calling it Nevada (neh-vah-duh, like the state)
Oh man, that sounds like you're referring to the one in Missouri. I riled up a number of folks that way.
How about the New Madrid fault? Apparently that is the new MAH-drehd. I fought against that one, mostly because folks laughed at me for pronouncing it like the rest of the entire world would expect.