Originally Posted by Terex
Boy, this biking stuff is tough! Growing up in the Midwest, I learned proper pronunciation of such words as "Italian" (eye-tal-yun), "'Cairo" (kay-row), and "Versailles", (vur-sales). Guess I'm going to have to listen closer to Bob Roll from now on...
Kay-row
is the correct pronunciation for Cairo, Illinois
. When I lived in Atlanta, they pronounced Ponce de Leon as Ponse duhLeeon, and Houston as House-ton. Local variation is one of the things that makes traveling fun.