Any Scots in the Coachella Valley?

[Canadian Vet]

We can probably thank William the Conquerer for this. So many French words have the accent on the last syllable, but somewhere along the line the Brits moved it to the first syllable (GAIR-ahj rather than guh-RAHJ) and somewhere else along the line us Americans moved it back. But it's all good. It's what makes life interesting. However... KAHN-trih-byoot still ruffles my feathers, but I'll let others kuhn-TRIB-yoot their thoughts on that.

I grew up in the French part of Canada and learned some French along the way ... certainly pronunciations.
When noticing the name of a town in England I pronounced it in French Beaulieu ... BOW-LEE-yeu. My Londoner brother in law laughed at me and told me it was pronounced BEW-LEE. I believe that I winced as if I'd bitten into a lemon.