A complaint typically mad by Americans. Amusingly the person who recently took issue with the matter in my (physical) presence came from a place in Arkansas whi

A complaint typically mad by Americans. Amusingly the person who recently took issue with the matter in my (physical) presence came from a place in Arkansas which from then on I've deliberately pronounced ahh-can-sas. The issue is more common in countries old enough to have not made up most of their place names (or unimaginatively stolen them from elsewhere, looking at you New York, Boston, Paris, etc.!) in recent centuries, so there has been a lot more evolution (or in some cases outright replacement due to invasions & politics) in language pronunciation and/or spelling since those names were first coined, but the young whipper-snappers like the US are far from immune to the problem.