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Originally Posted by timun
Ohio towns named after places elsewhere have weird pronunciations...
Cairo = "care-oh"
Lima = "lye-mah" (EDIT: I suppose it's not that weird if you're thinking about the bean, rather than Peru)
Louisville = "lewis-ville"
Medina = "muh-dye-nuh"
Versailles = "ver-sayles"
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What's with Medina, Cairo and Palestine?
Lol did they look at an atlas and start borrowing names of prominent religious/cultural centers in the middle east?