From Twitter 01-10-2011

[chrishansenhome]

• 09:08:38: @r4today For goodness' sake, Tucson is pronounced TOO-sohn, not TOO-sen.
  
• 09:20:48: Goo morning, Tweeterverse. Annoyed about @r4today as British announcers can't pronounce Tucson correctly.
  
• 10:20:15: @sjjh Yes, but the correspondent on the ground in AZ was constantly mispronouncing it...so naughty. Michigan is also mispronounced on R4.
  

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[chrisloup.livejournal.com]

at least not pronounced TUCK SUN

[tim1965.livejournal.com]

Oh please tell me how they pronounced it! :)

I remember seeing a BBC documentary about the Mt. St. Helens volcanic disaster. And then the announcer came to the town of Walla Walla, Washington. I guess they never saw any Bugs Bunny cartoons growing up (Bugs repeatedly notes that "Walla Walla" is one of the funny-sounding city names, others being Coachella, Keokuk, and Cucamonga). Now, in the U.S., this city's name is pronounced as if you were talking about two walls: "Wall-ah Wall-ah" (with the emphasis on the first syllable of each word). The BBC announcer reversed the emphasis. "wall-AH wall-AH" -- as if this were a city of Indian adjectives! LOL!!!!

I later heard American actor Terry O'Quinn (who is from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan -- a real tongue-twister of a placename) pronounce the name of "Minot, North Dakota" wrong on an episode of Millennium "Mine-aught" becaume "Min-OH." LOL!!!!!

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

How else would they have pronounced it than "MITCH-ih-gun"?