Unlike our neighbor Nevada, we don’t get all bent out of shape if people pronounce Arizona slightly differently…
No, it’s right next to Cahl-E-four-knee-uhhh.
And knowing’s hoff the bottle.
Do any of them ever take the 3:10 to Yumm-ma?
**Correct pronounciation of the word “Arizona”. **
Yew-TAH.
And next to that is Oh-RAY-gun, where they grow o-RAY-gun-o.
Um…
A Bulgarian corrected your pronunciation of the name of an American state???
:smack: No. Oh-RAY-gun-o comes from Messy-co. A bit further south from Oh-RAY-gun. I think they grow APP-pills in Oh-RAY-gun.
Probably. On their way to Los Ange-leez.
‘Arizona? There ain’t nothin’ there but jack rabbits and loco weed!’
I’m still trying to figure out if it was the first “a” or second.
Which is right next to MEE-Sah. Where I believe Jar Jar Binks lives.
Despite what some people seem to believe, I do not live in Worshington state.
One of the issues with growing up in another language and mostly reading about the states in English, as opposed to listening to people talk in the language, is that sometimes the way you pronounce things in your head is really messed-up.
-I thought Tuck-son was a city in the same state as that place Too-san I kept hearing about, as above.
-From grade 6 geography, I learned about the corn-growing states: Kansas, and Arr-Kansas (watch out for those prairie pirates, mateys!)
-From the naughty bits in the SF novels I read when I was 13, I learned of the allure of ladies’ thigs (rhymes with twigs) although I was damned if I knew precisely what bit of anatomy they were referring to…
-Being French Canadian, though, I was proud to know that New-Orleans was pronounced Nyu Orl-ee-anns.
Good thing we finally started getting American cable channels…
Yup.
Well at least she doesn’t live in “Our-kanzaz” (Arkansas)
I wouldn’t know, being that I was borned in Ioway.
Okay, I certainly agree that she (she?) should not have corrected you, but it’s also possible that she’s not familiar with the western American flat “a” (as in “tan”), which you hear in native pronunciations of Colorado (not “colorahdo”), Nevada (not “nevahda”), Montana, California and, yes, Arizona.
ISTM that if you thought or were taught that the only proper “a” is a nicely rounded “ah”-sounding “a”, and if you hear Nevahda and Colorahdo (now common pronunciations), you might reasonably think it had to be Ah-rizona.
Still wrong, of course. 
According to Wikipedia anyway, the word Arizona is of either Basque or O’odham origin. Go figure.
Yeah, you should secretly broadcast that song off your iPod FM transmitter to an appropriately placed radio in her office.