dum spics

hmm, i wanda wai we're stuck on 50.

That's because Spanish has been spoken in the U.S. since long before English arrived, and almost half the U.S. was part of Mexico until 1848.

Today, there are fewer people in the U.S. who speak Dutch, French, German, etc, compared to when these places were named, and so it's most common to pronounce place names from those languages in a decidedly American English way.