How do you pronounce Kissimmee, the city near Walt Disney World? Kiss-SIM-ee? KISS-uh-mee? What about Lutz? Havana? Matlacha? Dunedin? And if you think the locals pronounce Havana, Florida, the same ...

Moving to a new place is equal parts exciting and unsettling — and one of the most nerve-wracking parts can be the first time you try to say a weird place name out loud in front of other people.

There’s an old, old joke about Kissimmee, Florida, which goes something like this: A frustrated tourist walks up to the counter of a local eatery in Kissimmee. “Now see here!” he demands. “I keep ...