Americans didn't name these places. There were no Americans when these places were named
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There's a small town in Missouri I visited named Versailles and its pronounced ver-sails.
Not around here. We named towns after terms from native tribes who were kicked out of the area.
The people that named those places were still European
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Wait until you learn a second language and start learning town names in a new country. Here we have such amazing town names like “The Eyebrow” and “Camp”.
(I just chose the silliest ones I know, there are normal town names too)
There's a city in Ukraine named, literally, "The Curved Horn" (Кривий Ріг)
But if it's a French place, they'll pronounce it wrong.
How do you think we pronounce DeQuindre? Dee-kin-der. How about Livernois? Just add an e at the end and you'll figure it out. Too our credit we somehow pronounce Cadeiux correctly.
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