I never knew this.

I guess I had been pronouncing it correctly, but I never knew the story behind it..

There is a right way and a wrong way to pronounce

Oklahoma

The proper way is:

' Okla . . . Homa

(There's a pause between the 'a' and the 'h'.)

See the reason below.

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