As to the player, my 680 pauses during the music to give directions, which drives me crazy because it throws off the rythm of the song. I wish it would just mute and keep playing. So I guess Garmin can’t make everyone happy.

As to the pronunciation, I found the same thing with “highway” depending on the voice chosen. In the UK, they don’t have highways, they call them motorways. So the British voice will pronounce “HWY 401″ as H W Y four hundred and one.