U.S. Place Names That People Say Wrong

The Top Ten
1 New Orleans
2 Louisville
3 Missouri Missouri is a state located in the Midwestern United States. It is the 21st most extensive, and the 18th most populous of the fifty states.
4 Nevada Nevada is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.
5 Appalachian
6 Mobile
7 Arkansas Arkansas is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Its name is of Siouan derivation, denoting the Quapaw Indians.

Almost everyone I met when I moved from America pronounces it Ar-kan-ses until they were told otherwise.

Pronounced: Ark-kan-sous

8 Miami, Oklahoma
9 Oregon Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Oregon is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by Washington, on the south by California, on the east by Idaho, and on the southeast by Nevada.
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