Jon Miller asks if it's common for words to be pronounced differently
by people of different regions and backgrounds.  At least in the
English-speaking world, the answer is "most certainly!"

In the case of Duo-Art, I would opt for Dew-Oh-Art or at least
Doo-Oh-Art.  The justification?  I seriously doubt that Arden & Ohman,
Fairchild & Rainger, Ferrante & Teischer, duo-pianists all, would have
liked much to hear themselves referred to as "Doo-Pianists".

I have just waved good-bye to house guests from the midwest (no Jon,
not Minnesota) who said things like "poosh" for push, "deeshes for
dishes and "zinc" for sink.  (Poosh the dirty deeshes in the zinc?)

In short, there are probably as many regional variations in pronun-
ciation, idiom and grammar as there are regions.  The ones which
particularly grate on me are Am-PEE-co for Ampico and AIR-olian for
Aeolian.

By the way, many of us out here in the American Northwest say LEE-ver
(especially when it's a verb) rather than LEH-ver, so it's not just in
the south.

Dean Randall
in soggy Puget Sound country