Business Insider had one of those fun maps showing how folks around the country pronounce things differently. Nothing new, but it's in a fun form. The full survey, which is few years old, is here.
This is an oversimplified version. For example, the red lightens in NH on the word for soda/pop/soft drink/coke choice because a few people still say "tonic." A lot still did when I was a boy. Actually "TAH-nic" would be closer.
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I saw this linked somewhere and came right over in perfect confidence that you'd noticed it too: right up your alley.
Houston is in a kind of ambiguous area, without much preference on many of the pronunciations. I would never say "car-mel," though.
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