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If we even start in on U.S. regional variations, we're doomed. A couple that have tickled me in my travels in the East, Midwest and South:
Worcester, pronounced Wooster, is a very common street name (and occasional city name) in the East. When you get to the Midwest, it's still common, but they've given up and started spelling it "Wooster."
There is a county in Mississippi named for a famous Spanish conquistador. The locals pronounce it Ball-ih-vihr.
Not to tell, but I frequently come across fellow Americans who are constitutionally incapable of pronouncing my rather common English first name correctly, even with coaching, and it's almost unheard of that anyone can even get close on my Celtic last name, thought most are convinced they know how it's said.
And no, I've never heard anyone use the word quay, pronounced in any fashion, or otherwise encountered it anywhere except a British novel. I presumed it was pronounced many ways, because seldom pronounced.
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