when people unfamiliar with the deserts of the american southwest try to guess at the pronunciation of "saguaro".

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@starkatt Also, anyone not from the americas trying to pronounce place names of Native American origin. And anyone from the americas doing the same for place names of different native american origin than they're familiar with, because the pronunciation and orthography is Complicated and there are loads of different languages that many people don't even realize are different.
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