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    Ohio is great for shit pronunciations of town names.

    Bellfountaine - bell FOUN’n (the t drops there in most dialects, some would say ‘fountain’ with the the first syllable stressed).

    Versailles - verSAILS

    Medina - muhDYEnuh

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      We have “verSAILS” in Indiana too. Also:

      Peru - Pee-roo

      Russiaville - Roosha-vil

      Lebanon - Leb’nun

      My favorite though is that there are two spellings for the Wabash river: Wabash and Ouabache. And despite being in a town that is on the Wabash River, the local Oabache Elementary School is pronounced: Wah-bat-shee.

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        Right down the road from Versailles is the town I grew up in and the movie Hoosiers is based off of. Milan (pronounced my - lan)

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        The pronunciation of Lebanon you called out may sound like it came from a hayseed, but it’s closer to the way people in the country of Lebanon pronounce it than the mainstream American pronunciation.

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        or rio grande (rye-oh grand).

        I’m not sure how Gallipolis should actually be pronounced. The ~polis suffix seems sensible enough, but not sure on the first part.

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            I would say the Ohio version gal-uh-puh-LISS and I think that’s how people I knew from there said it, but it’s been a couple decades, heh.

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      My extended family is from a tiny Ohio hill town named Antioch, pronounced “annie-OCK”.