ElliottCarasDad said:
(For everyone else, Iowa has a weird fascination for naming cities after other famous places in the country and world, then pronouncing it differently. I live near Nevada IA and Madrid IA, and neither one is pronounced like you think it would be.)
examples:
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Akron
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Auburn
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Battle Creek
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Bellevue
Birmingham
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Bloomfield
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Brooklyn
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Buffalo
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Charlotte
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Cincinnati
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Columbia
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Dallas
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Dayton
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Denver
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.....you get the idea
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