They saw a sign directing them to "Heavener."

Decades ago, a relative described driving his new furriner wife around south-eastern Oklahoma. They saw a sign directing them to "Heavener." My religiously starry-eyed but geographically challenged relative exclaimed to his bride, Why! We're "heaven-ers!" So they drove into town, asked a local how you pronounce the name of the town, and skee-daddled out of there when they heard him welcome them, of course, to "HEAVE-nurr".

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