My wife is from Bellefontaine, Ohio - and it's pronounced "Bell-Fountin" there. I'm curious about the local foods up there, heavily German influenced, of course, with the Amish about, and how her people say things. The overall accent is mid-western, I suppose, but, she pronounces "always" as "alwiz", and she tends to precede nouns with the definite article more than the average Americsn; such as, "You have THE cough today, I see".

I have lived in Texas since 1967 and have traveled its highways and by-ways. You will find a small town named Tivoli in this here state, but don't pronounce it like the Italians. It's pronounced "Ty-VO-Lee". Within Houston is the San Jacinto Battle Ground, but we don't pronounce San Jacinto like in the Spanish - San "Ha-SEEN-to". It was "anglicized" long ago.