Growing up in SoCal, we always laughed when tourists mispronounced the town name of Port Hueneme (Why-knee-me) as ‘hue-neh-me’. Same goes for Ojai (Oh-High) as ‘Oh-Jai’.
I also had a boss that pronounced the street in LA Sepulveda (Seh-Pull-Ved-Ah) as ‘supple-vida’.