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Mispronounced place names in Paris (help with a song)

I'm working on a duet in a musical between two girls dreaming of their future. One character knows French, the other doesn't. One of them dreams of traveling to Paris for college studies.

The song is going to be the musical's fun number, so I thought it would be cute to have the non French speaker hideously butcher the pronunciation of place names throughout Paris and have the character who knows French correct her.

So for this thread I'm looking for ideas. What are some of the wildest, funniest or dumbest mispronunciations you've ever heard from an English speaker, particularly an American, for any of the locations in the city?

EDIT: I need to know exactly how they mispronounce it as I'm more often or not going to place the mispronounced word at line's end so that it can rhyme with other lines.

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u/Positive-Ring-5172 — 13 hours ago