Responding to our ongoing discussion about unexpected pronunciations for various towns, a listener notes that the names of Cairo, Georgia, and Havana, Florida, are not pronounced the way you might think. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Even More Unexpected Town Name Pronunciations”
For our ongoing discussion of town names that look like something different from the way they sound,
we heard from Randy Denker, who lives in North Florida.
And Randy said that nearby there are the towns that look like Havana, Florida and Cairo, Georgia,
but they’re actually pronounced Hayvana and Cairo.
Randy says, when I first moved here, it made me crazy.
But when in Rome…
Say Rom.
That’s right.
Or Roma.
