When the whole hurricane effort is out of the news I'm going to miss listening to the RTE & BBC news-readers pronounce Baton Rouge. Their pronunciation gives the city a bit of flair that I never associated with it before.
Of course, I rarely even considered the city before Katrina other than as the answer to the question, "Where does LSU play its home games?". No that one. This one. "What is the capital of Louisiana"?