The Little Arkansas river in Kansas is pronounced Ar-Kansas.
In the 1960s I worked at a scientific research laboratory. At one time there were a couple of new employees from a country with cultural differences from ours, who thought the drinking fountains were urinals, until things were clarified for them.
Some of the early refrigerators were gas powered (natural or propane). When I was a kid, we had a Servel that had been converted to electric.
The Little Arkansas river in Kansas is pronounced Ar-Kansas.