Sometimes I enjoy pronouncing Detroit in the original French (well, as close as I can get!). It makes it sound so foreign and classy. ;-)
http://www.forvo.com/search/Detroit/fr/
"Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliance of genius or the cunning use of corruption.
You must cut a path through this mess of men like a cannon-ball, or creep among them like a pestilence."
Balzac