Even Greener Pastures

It is a damn shame, but pony and bologna do rhyme in American English, but only when you are talking about the lunch meat.  If you are talking about the city in Italy then you have the typical English massacre of that spelling.



Oscar Mayer tried to get the country to at least call it ba lo na.  But people pronounce it like the kid.  That ad was incredibly popular in the 70's.