Does anyone want to wrestle with Cuyahoga (the county that Cleveland, 
Ohio is in)(It's an American native Indian name), and Elyria (our county 
seat in Ohio) named for the Ely family which is pronounced E-Lie, but is 
pronounced El-lria.

David Meiklejohn wrote:
>> Not especially, but the English tongue does have a lot of history behind
>> it so it's inevitable that over the centuries some words get
>> "bastardised" and the modified form becomes the norm.
>>
>> The of course you have regional dialects which can quite dramatically
>> change the pronunciation of a word. I'm sure you hear this in the US
>> just as much as we do in the UK.
> 
> For example, why does "Arkansas" not rhyme with "Kansas"?
> 
> 
>  - David Meiklejohn
> 
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