Places and things that are pronounced differently to their spelling

[Groundgripper]

Place names and objects, animals or whatever, that are pronounced differently from the way they are spelled.

(Example) :- Worcestershire said as Woo sti shir

 

[dogslife]

Llangollen (Clangothlan)? Any Welsh members please excuse my spelling and feel free to correct.

 

[Groundgripper]

Edinburgh ( Ed`n Bra)

 

[dogslife]

A visitor we were taking on a trip around Devon kept asking where ILL - FRACK- OMBEY was. Eventually we realised he had been seeing signs for Ilfracombe.

 

[Groundgripper]

A visitor we were taking on a trip around Devon kept asking where ILL - FRACK- OMBEY was. Eventually we realised he had been seeing signs for Ilfracombe.

Our dearest friend Bruce from Georgia USA says our place names in a letter by letter format, and with different intonation on the pronunciation of certain letters, he and we have known each other for over 20 years now and he still can`t quite get the bemused expression off of his face by what he calls our rapid speech and pronunciation, and why do we have to put all those extra letters " U" into our words when we write, such as the word "colour"

 

[Robbity]

Cholmondeley in Cheshire pronounced Chum-lee)

 

[Robbity]

A visitor we were taking on a trip around Devon kept asking where ILL - FRACK- OMBEY was. Eventually we realised he had been seeing signs for Ilfracombe.

Which has just reminded me of an American lady many years ago who called the Thames the River THAYMEES - which we renamed as such for several years afterwards...

 

[Groundgripper]

Alnwick in Northumberland pronounced An-ik

 

[nomoredonuts]

An old Spanish lady I knew pronounced Gloucester - GLUE-THES-TER.
(Of course we Brits know it's GLOSTER.)

 

[Robbity]

Mousehole (Cornish town not a wee mousey housey) = MOWZEL

 

[Jollymon]

Based on dialects, I’m really glade that this is a written forum. I struggle with some of the words here, but seeing them written does help me to figure them out.

 

[Groundgripper]

Based on dialects, I’m really glade that this is a written forum. I struggle with some of the words here, but seeing them written does help me to figure them out.

You will love this one then:- Magdalen College in Oxford is pronounced :- Maud Lin col idge

 

[Numan]

I live in Norfolk and we have loads of these, for example Happisburgh- pronounced Haze-bru, also Wymondham, pronounced Wind-am, Costessey pronounced Cossy is another.

 

[Groundgripper]

And yet, in American English, the word is pronounced Mag (rhymnes with hag) duh (quintessential American sound) len (rhymes with glen)

We would never make it sound equivalent to maudlin

Ah the beauty of the old country and its weird ways, Try this one "Kircudbright" is said - Ker Cood Bri

 

[nomoredonuts]

I have, on the odd occasion visited a thatched pub in Dorset in the village of Puncknowle. Punnel!

 

[Robbity]

Reading , Berks --> Redding, Barks

 

[nomoredonuts]

I've heard of the Vale of Beaver. Belvoir!

 

[Groundgripper]

Towcester becomes "Toaster" when pronounced

 

[Robbity]

Wildboarclough = Wilbercluff

 

[Diawara]

sproughton in suffolk is sprawton nearby bramford is brarmfud but bramfield in the north of the county is bramfield..