A friend of mine, who is a teacher, once told me that in one of her Geography lessons, she had difficulties getting some of her students to pronounce, OKLAHOMA !
A Malay student, read it as O.K. lah mar .
A Chinese student, read it as Okra Oma !
An Indian student read it as Wok Kla Wo Ma !
Don't laugh, but do you know how to pronounce correctly, the word . . . .
" Oklahoma " ?
The Proper Way is:
OKLA (with a pause) . . . HOMA
(There's a gap between the 'a' and the 'h'.)
Don't agree, let me prove it . . . . . .
