My husband tells me that the name Harry does NOT sound like hairy. But that’s the way it’s said around here. He says it more like Har-ee. Like Car.
Oh names! I didn’t notice until I went to college that names like Kara, Kerry, Carrie had different pronounciations depending on where you were from. Like Kara—I would say it like “care-uh” while my NJ friends pronounces it more like “cah-ra” or something like that. Not sure I’m getting that phonetically right, it’s been a while since I’ve heard it pronounced with a Joi-sey accent 
Brian: cool
Stewie: cool
Brian: whip
Stewie: whip
Brian: Cool whip
Stewie: Cool WHHip
foy-A
Cru-di-tA
I was wearing a cute pair of pants and my friend asked me the brand. When I told her the name she asked how to spell it and when I told her said “You mean Joe-e? I like their blouses. “ she would not believe me that Joie is pronounced Zhwa until she asked the clerk at Nieman Marcus.
The internet can be right, too. ?
https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/pompous-pronunciation
The Jesuit order was founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola. Hence, there are several Jesuit universities with “Loyola” in their names (Loyola of Chicago, Loyola Marymount in CA, etc.). Well, I seem to have this mental block whereby I cannot pronounce “Loyola” unless I say it slowly, dragging out the syllables! It usually comes out “Yoyola”. Just my thing, I guess.
I have a friend named Colleen, from the east coast and she thought her name was call een. Moved to the midwest and they said it more like k’ lean (clean, one syllable). Out in the west, they say it CO’ leen.
Drove her crazy so she moved back to the east coast.
When we were picking out names for our children there were a couple that just had to go because the Aussie pronunciation was so different (and in my mind, awful) compared to the American one. The one that sticks out the most for me was Megan or Meghan. I think all Americans would say “Meg -an” with either a short e or maybe tending toward a long a in that first syllable depending on where you live. Hubby says “Mee -gan.” Just… no.
How about BER Lin New Hampshire. It’s not Ber LIN.
Guess I’m just a baller, @patsmom. 
https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/i-say-potatoe-you-say-patata
I guess my coworkers, friends and I are just pompous ballers. 
Many of those were changed during/after WWII. New Ber’ lin Wisconsin is like that too
There’s also a Milan in NH pronounced differently (MY-linn) than the city in Italy.
And Amherst is pronounced without the h!
I grew up in the suburbs of NY — no strong accent there. In fact, as a kid, I was convinced that the way I spoke was the “right way, “ because it was the same as the way the newscasters on national stations spoke. But my Connecticut-born kids have assured me that it’s not normal to pronounce orange as “ah-range” instead of “aw-range”. Or even worse, fahrhead instead of forehead. I have become convinced that they’re right (i.e., virtually nobody in the country says them that way) but I’m never going to tell them!
OK, here’s one for you New Englanders – I hear newscasters mispronounce “Quinnipiac” all the time when they speak about the famous poll. At least I think it’s mispronounced. One of my best friends in college was from Connecticut and she pronounced it with emphasis on the first syllable – QUINN-i-piac. But on TV I hear
Quin-NIP-piac and Quinni-PEE-ac all the time. Who’s correct?
If you mean a coordinated grouping of furniture, then it’s written “suite,” but pronounced “suit.” I personally avoid by saying “bedroom furniture.” Not to be confused with a group of rooms- sleeping area/dressing area/sitting area/en-suite bath - in which case it’s a bedroom suite and pronounced “sweet.”
KWINN-ih-pee-ak is correct.
Its Kwin -NIP --ee- ac (accent on the second syllable)
You misspelled “first” 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zzMxEyINP4
Well haha and ok. Have always, for many decades, heard it the other way. Must be a regional thing
And ditto on people mispronouncing Bowdoin
evidently, I’ve fogotten how to ‘quote’
anyway, a girl in my D’s class in HS was Joie, pronounced Joey
Maybe that’s how folks from other regions say it…but here in CT…the emphasis is on the first syllable.