When i was younger, my family and i got to go on a ski trip to a place called Canaan Valley, West Virginia. I had always heard the pronunciation as Kay-Nun. The locals pronounced it as Kuh-Nayn which made sense to me as the first a would be a short schwa sound and the last double a would force/indicate the long a sound...
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