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Places and things that are pronounced differently to their spelling

Groundgripper

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

(Example) :- Worcestershire said as Woo sti shir
 
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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.:D
 
dogslife said:
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.:D
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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":)
 
dogslife said:
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.:D
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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...:wacky:
 
Alnwick in Northumberland pronounced An-ik
 
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.
 
Jollymon said:
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.
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You will love this one then:- Magdalen College in Oxford is pronounced :- Maud Lin col idge
 
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.
 
Contralto said:
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
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Ah the beauty of the old country and its weird ways, Try this one "Kircudbright" is said - Ker Cood Bri
 
Towcester becomes "Toaster" when pronounced
 
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