So I just downloaded the Straight Dope podcast and was really shocked (well okay, mildly surprised) to hear the reader pronounce Cecil’s name as SEE-SILL where as I would say CESS-SILL.
It was a bit like how I never connected Graham (GREY-AM) crackers I read about in books to GRAM crackers I heard about in movies. While I’m at it I think the way roof is said, like RUFF, is weird. I don’t know if this changes in different areas of the states but it sounds like a noise a dog would make.