The Pico And Sepulveda (1947, by Freddy Martin and his orchestra) number from the incredibly great film The Forbidden Zone.
Of course, I pronounce the name of that city ‘Nativeamericanapolis, Nativeamericana’. 
I live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. No, not the Will-a-met. It’s Wuh-lam-met.
**Johnny L.A., **sounds like you and I grew up in the same area and know many of the same names from SoCal.
Born in ‘L.A.’ (actually Lakewood, but it’s L.A. County and no one would ever know where Lakewood is), Yokosuka as a small child, San Diego 'til high school, back to L.A. County (Lancaster), and then most of a couple of decades in The City of Los Angeles. Currently on the Salish Sea, just below the 49th Parallel.
It’s pronounced “North Hills.” 
(Real Estate people were behind this.)
My city is called “mun-tree-all” or “more-ay-AL”, NOT “mawn-tree-all.” Though I don’t hear that many people mispronouncing it.
Quincy is not pronounced in a way anyone could guess. Actually, neither is Billerica, come to think of it. Leominster or Leicester? They might guess those.
Quinzee
Billricka
Lehminster
Lester
I see nobody has weighed in on ‘Colorado’ or ‘Nevada’ yet either.
Don’t you love it though… I live in Carmel, IN, and here it is pronounced CAR-mul. The town in CA is pronounced car-MEL.
I was at a soccer game and a woman with the opposing team kept calling us car-MEL. I politely told her at some point that we pronounce it CAR-mul. She looked at me and said… no they don’t… we’ve played them before. :smack:
It’s Boston, not “Beantown”.
Oh, and Harvard and MIT are in Cambridge, which is a COMPLETELY SEPARATE CITY from Boston.
Lompoc, the town near Vandenburg Air Force Base (where polar orbit satellites are launched) is Lom-poke not Lom-pock as national newscasters insist on calling it.
In the San Joaquin Valley, fractured Spanish is common. Ripon = Rippin’, Salida = Sal-eye-da.
Oh, and please don’t call San Luis Obispo San Louie Obispo or SLOw (although that one seems to have caught on with millennials–drives me crazy!
That one’s easy; almost rhymes with Gloucester.
In So IL (Southern Illinois)
Cairo= Kay Roe
Vienna= Viy Anna
You tell whether or not someone is from Connecticut by how they pronounce ‘Naugatuck.’ The proper pronunciation is hard to put into text, but here’s a hint: it’s not three syllables. In fact, most places around here are pronounced with fewer syllables than you’d think. Some folk around here pronounce the phrase ‘take it easy’ with only one syllable.
One of friends has an iPhone and uses Siri to get directions. I always laugh when I hear “Take I-85 [east/west] towards Hartford Court.”
My father – who has never lived outside Brooklyn unless you count college and the military, but has traveled – believes there is a state called “Mi-ZERR-uh,” and in the state south of it, a city called “NAW-linz”. I don’t know why he believes this.
If it was enough years ago, might it have been “New Jah-sey” (and you, pahfect togethah)
I’ve never said “Big Apple” nor heard anyone else say it, but nor have I ever heard or seen anyone flip out about it like this thread seems to be about.
Come to visit us in The Cayman Islands or a specific island name such as Grand Cayman. But please don’t call us The Caymans.
For the benefit of non-Californians who aren’t hip to the lingo: This usage, calling a freeway “The” followed by the number (“The 405”; “The 210” etc.) is a strictly sourthern California thing. You won’t hear that horrible usage elsewhere (like the San Francisco area) except from transplanted southern Californians.
OTOH, I thought Governator Arnold’s pronunciation of Kaleeforneeya was kinda classic. 
Not to mention The Beach Boys’ Californ-I-yay.
Love! She would know then. :rolleyes:
There’s gold to be had in the tourist trap hotels of Waikiki teaching wiki-wiki classes for the malihini tourists to learn to say things like Haleakala and Kaaawa and the Kalanianaole Highway and the infamous humuhumunukunukuapuaa, fabled in song.
And the nightclub entertainers take deliberately unpronounceable names like Nina Kealiiwahamanu and Boyce Kaihiihikapuokalani.