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

It's in the Forest of Bowland/near Lancaster.

I went to university in Bangor and the vast, vast majority of the students quite merrily pronounced it like the English word for an old car (or a sausage) - usually also sounding the 'g', but often not.

I couldn't believe how many people would devote three or more years of their lives to living and studying somewhere and not even knowing the name of the city where they were living.

One man I knew pointed at a marking on the road in Menai bridge which was pointing to Bangor and they had split the word in two halves, to paint it massive on the road, and he 'hilariously' asked "Where is BAN-GORE?!?!" - ironically nearly pronouncing it correctly without even realising.

The worst thing is not just the people who don't know/care how to pronounce a Welsh place name properly, but those who actually think that people are doing it somehow for a joke and laugh when they do pronounce it properly.

Many of them are the same ones who complained about 'them changing the name of Snowdon' - when Welsh people wanted to finally actually acknowledge that it had always had its own Welsh name and requested people to kindly use it.

London is pronounced Larn-dun in the East End.

Liverpool is pronounced Liv-er-poooooooooooooooool by the locals.

Heysham, Lancashire often pronounced as Hay-shum, correct is Hee-shum(dh from Morecambe)

A lot of people don't know that, before Charles Dickens' work was published in standard book form, it was first serialised in two local newspapers in the Midlands.

It was the Bicester Times; it was the Worcester Times.

I am West Yorkshire born and bred, and ai have no idea what this mysterious 'not a th' sound is 🤷

Anyone local to the north Tamar who can tell me how to pronounce Broadwoodwidger? Is it a Ronseal one or is it actually Brodger or Brewidger or something else entirely?

Also Launceston to me is Lanson.
St Ive = St Eve
Quethiock = Quithick (hard ‘th’)

Stress in Cornish place names is usually on the second syllable, except when it isn’t 😁

Rusholme in Manchester - it's not Rush-home, it's Rushem!

St Ive = St Eve

Might as well go the whole hog and just call it Steve

Um yes I know where it is, of course! I was commenting on your guess at the correct/local pronunciation

Aspatria > Ass- PAY- tree-ya ( or, if local, Speeatrie)
Torpenhow > Tra-PEN-ner
Sandwith > SAN-uth

When I went to pick up my pet rats from a breeder there it absolutely was. The taxi driver swiftly corrected my mum and I.

Mauchline = Mock-lin
Burpham = Burf-um

Burpham = Burf-um

Can't possibly imagine why the locals prefer to pronounce it that way

And that reminds me of another one: Shitterton - pronounced as though the 'h' weren't there, so 'SIT-uh-tuhn'!

One of the most intriguing ones is Youlgreave - which has had a couple of dozen different spellings over time and which is often just called 'Pommy' by locals!

I used to work with somebody who pronounced Clovelly as CLO-vly

It is clo-VELL-ee

You beat me too it they are both wrong

Me as well as it appears throughout my address not just in Llandudno.

@YellowAsteroid , I'm sure you did, but I had to look it up. I guessed that 'up here' was going to be Lancashire or maybe Cumbria, but I'd pictured it as being nearer places like Rawtenstall.

@Kovus , ah eh, it's more like ''The Pewl'.

"When I went to pick up my pet rats from a breeder there it absolutely was. The taxi driver swiftly corrected my mum and I."

Corrected you from what? Keely? As plenty have explained it's not a TH

I remember a work colleague trying to teach me that it is ABERdeen and not AberDEEN, i.e. with the emphasis on the first half of the word.

😁😂😁

Do you say Keith and the first syllable of Keighley the same? I don't - the th is different, shorter - there isn't time to get your tongue to the front of your mouth before saying the l

I know it's a small difference but it was pointed out to me - amongst other things - -decades ago when I had some elecution lessons after getting a lot of ridicule for my accent when working in London.

I had no idea before that that I had any sort of accent at all so it all came as a shock - you don't always realise how you say something until someone else points it out

No sadly not! I have no relatives who still live there.

I am Scottish but not from that far North, however I seem to remember that a lot of people pronounce it AY Ber Deen.