If it’s not pronounced YOUS-tuhn, then how is it? Educate the clueless Swede, please. 
The one thing that annoys me is when a national news reporter (it’s always a national news reporter) says “Here in Bronx, NY. . .” That’s soooo wrong. It’s The Bronx-- or da Bronx, if you wanna pronounce it like the natives.
Even people who say Pixburgh don’t bother me as much (just the tiniest most miniscule amount of bother less) than the people who say …
Pissburgh.
I do not live in a city full of piss thank you very much you fucking yinzer idiots who can’t speak English.
OK. I feel better now.
I feel your pain man. also people, it’s pronounced Di-troyt not Dee-troyt.
Then there are the people trying to be all clever and say “bwa-ston”, like that’s how people there pronounce it, and I have to explain to them that no, that would be saying Boston like you’re in New York (like coifee) - Bostonians say “bastan” (well, if they have a Boston accent that is).
The city os HYOU-ston. The street in NYC is HOW-ston.
“Also, East Coasters, that state north of California is called OR-e-gon, not o-re-GONE.”
Actually, up here in Oregon, it’s pronounced more like “OR-gun” or “ORI-gun.”
Even more weird, we have a town up here in Oregon called “Aloha.” Not pronounced like it is in Hawaii (a-WAH-ee, not HUH-why-yee), but instead “UH-low-uh.”
Yeah, I know what it sounds like, but that’s the best representation I could come up with. Really, what I needed was one of those schwas symbols, but in most cases an unstressed “o” would sound like that anyway. The most important point is that the stress is one the first syllable, not the last syllable!
Thank you chula, you beat me to it!! I hate when people drop the “H” off of HYOU-ston!
And regardless of the spelling, the name of a certain Mississippi town* is pronounced Bi-LUX-ee, not Bil-LAHX-ee!
*Biloxi
As others have already answered, it’s HYOUS-tuhn.
Unhappily, natives here say Worshington. Don’t make fun of them though or they’ll make you say Puyallup, Issaquah and Wenatchee. Oh, and it’s “see-ADD-uhl” not “SEE-addle.”
yeah, I have a friend who randomly inserts R’s into his words, especially (expeshully? don’t get me started) when he says the word wash (worsh - ugh!) I’m like, “where did the R come from?”
(and yes, I acknowledge that I just used Valleyspeak, but I’m from “the Valley” so I get to, heh.)
Actually, isn’t it not actually pronounced “Los Anjeliss” either? Isn’t the original Spanish something more like “Los Anheliss?”
See also any placenames ending with “ham”.
Ahem. Edin-burra. Edin-burra. Please, leave the bergs to Titanic.
Note for all the lovely people moving here from out-of-state: It’s App-uh-latch-uh. Say it with me. App-uh-latch-uh. Do not say App-uh-lay-shah. That’s like nails on a chalkboard. If you’re just visiting, you can be forgiven, but if you’re going to live here, learn to say it correctly.
And it’s tortillas dammit, not tortillas! Tacos is pronounced “tacos” not “tacos”
And I swear to god if someone pronounces the word Prescott like Prescott and not the more proper “Prescott” I’m gonna blow the whole place up with a Nukuler bomb.
Are we really gonna get nitpicky about ethnic pronunciations?
you say “to-may-to,”
I say “to-may-to,”
anyone who says “to-mah-to” should be given a wedgie for being pretentious.
I have no idea where you are talking about.
Should I?
Depends what you’re interested in.
The Appalachians are the mountain range that extend from Quebec into Georgia at the eastern side of North America; they are among the oldest mountains in the world. Along them, there are several areas with pockets of regional culture. Beginning around West Virginia and Maryland (with a few outthrusts into Pennsylvania and Ohio), those regions are often referred to as Appalachia. (To the north, there are still cultural pockets, but they more frequentrly take the names of the sub-ranges of mountains such as the Alleghenies). The accent of the people in the southern stretches tends to favor a pronunciation of App-uh-latch-uh, although to the north and through much of the rest of the country the pronunciation tends to be App-uh-lay-shah.