Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was an undergrad in college (well... not THAT long ago!
) at the University of Oklahoma, people used to ask me where I was from. When I replied 'Miami', they thought it was the little bitty ol' pi**ant country place in far northeastern Oklahoma that's properly pronounced 'My-am-uh' and not 'Mi-am-ee' like the city on the southern tip of the Florida peninsula.