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Although this isn't geography, it's pronunciation of a city. At my internship a few years ago, I was in a meeting with a bunch of company executives. Another intern in my department was presenting some information to the executives. She was trying to tell them she spoke with someone in the Des Moines, IA office. I almost started cracking up when she said, "I then spoke with the communications director at our office in Dess Monez." The execs were looking at her weird until the realized that she had completely pronounced it wrong and then started smirking. She didn't realize her mistake until after the meeting when another intern mentioned something to her about it in a not-so-nice kind of way.
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