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There's Versailles, PA also, along with Charleroi (which starts out well, but collapses into Shar-le-roy) and Dubois (Dew-boys) - all of which perplexed my Belgian guests.
I still refuse to pronounce the 'r' in Washington, PA, as my mother, grandmother, mother-in-law, and other western PA native family members do.
(And I still get a chuckle from the FedEx commercial with a young kid trying to ship to "puh-hoe-nicks - you know, the capital of Arizona")