Growing up in Ohio as a kid, our next door neighbor's dad was an engineer at Argosy in Versailles. Didn't know much about what that meant at the time, but he was definitely the quiet, glasses-wearing, crew-cut, pocket-protector, slide-rule guy. I remember he helped me put together a beloved Verti-bird helicopter toy when I was like about nine years old.
And, FWIW, the locals pronounce it "Ver-sails"
Also, other nearby towns Bellefontaine ("Bell Fountain")
Russia ("RooShee") and Houston ("House-Ton")
I assume we adapted these interesting pronunciations to avoid any possibility of confusion with any other locations that share the same spelling.
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