Place name mispronunciation

[BurntBroccoli]

Just Googled a few of these - please add any more!

Hunstanton Norfolk
Wrong: Hun-stan-ton
Right: Hun-ston

Bedworth Warwickshire
Wrong: Bed-worth
Right: Bed-uth

Wales
Wrong: Lan-dud-no
Right: Clan-did-no

Oxford (Magdalen college)
Wrong: Mag-de-lain
Right: Maud-lin

Dumfries and Galloway
Wrong: Kir-cud-bright
Right: Kir-koo-bree

Leominster (Herefordshire)
Wrong: Lee-o-min-ster
Right: Lem-ster

Alnwick(Northumberland)
Wrong: Aln-wik
Right: An-ik

Prudhoe (Northumberland)
Wrong: Prud-hoe
Right: Prud-a

Godmanchester (Cambridgeshire)
Wrong: God-man-ches-ter
Right: Gum-ster

Cholmondeley (Cheshire)
Wrong: Chol-mon-de-lee
Right: Chum-lee

Actually most people in Norfolk do pronounce it Hunstanton. The same can't be said of Wymondham (windham), Costessey (cossy) and Happisburgh (hayesbruh)!

Yes, I’ve only ever heard it pronounced Hunstanton. What I found mildly odd (foreigner) is the stress, that it’s ‘Hun-STAN-ton’ rather than ‘HUN-stanton ’. then again, BBC newsreaders get the stresses in Irish placenames wrong all the time, so perhaps not always self-evident.

Both of your pronunciations of Llandudno are wrong.

Ooops, some of them are wrong @BurntBroccoli

Bedworth, is Bedworth. Unless you live in Bedworth. Nobody outside of it calls it anything else.

Ok, carry on but please stop with the attempts to transliterate the Welsh Ll!

wrong wrong wrong

Prudhoe is more like Prud-oh

Milngavie
Mul-guy

Glamis
Glams

Also, OP, while Magdalen College in Oxford (and Magdalene, Cambridge) are both pronounced ‘Maudlin’, as is the adjacent bridge in Oxford because it takes its name from the college, the church of St Mary Magdalene in Oxford and the street it’s on are both pronounced ‘Mag-duh- Len’.

Ulgham (Northumberland)
Wrong - Ulg-ham
Right - Uff-um

Ponteland (Northumberland)
Wrong - Ponty-land
Right - Pon-tee-land

Cambois (Northumberland)
Wrong - Cam-bwar
Right - Ca-miss

Chester Le Street (Durham)
Wrong - Chester Lee Street
Right - chessleestreet

No prizes for guessing which part of the country I live in 😉

Dumfries and Galloway
Wrong: Kir-cud-bright
Wrong: Kir-koo-bree
Right: Kir-kood-bray

How is Llandudno pronounced please?

Glad you asked that. A bit off to yell “wrong” and then not say what is right!

Really? I come from Scotland and was always taught Kir-koo-bree, no “d”.

It's not fucking Clan did no
dear god

The Welsh "Ll" is not pronounced cl. It is a sound that can't be written out phonetically in English, because the letter doesn't exist in English, but you can find videos on YouTube to teach you.
Llan- DID- noh is the closer I can get to the correct pronounciation. The end bit is not an "ow" sound, more of an open "o" like at the end of "buongiorno" in Italian.

If you want to get technical, ‘ll’ is a voiceless dental fricative with a lateral release… but simply the reason people get annoyed with ‘clan’ is because it’s lazy anglicising. Ll is more of a THL sound than a CL sound. You have to put your tongue to the top of your mouth and behind the upper row of teeth.

Should have said in my post feel free to correct or offer alternatives 😁

It's a sound that doesn't exist in English. Hard to explain.

Fabulous!
Yes I'm from the North East too!

Since when has Hunstanton been called Hun-ston?? Definitely never heard that pronunciation from anyone in Norfolk, perhaps was a very old or very local pronunciation ??

Chwarae teg! 👏👏👏👌

“Wales” is not pronounced Landudno or Clandudno! The spelling for Llandudno is two Ls. Though people think Welsh spelling is hilarious it is very easy and phonetic! No silly tricks like the English language!

I doubt anyone outside of Clan Did no really cares 🤣

My Norfolk rellies call it Hunston.