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My friend, Americans do not care about how words are pronounced in the original language/location.
Some of us do.
It's a name, not a word.
Proper nouns are, in fact, words.
Man they really don't teach you guys basic English.
Proper nouns are names. Birmingham, AL and Birmingham, UK have different pronunciations
... Yes? And for the full points, what is a noun?
A noun is a part of speech representing an object that can be described.