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

Definitely not ABERdeen. That's how my English iLs pronounced it

I'd say it more like EbberDEEN

I suppose that’s the thing though - there is always the accent you have to take into account. I live central belt but haven’t always so carry a few Scottish accents and it definitely has a d in it 😀

I’m sorry, but I don’t agree that this is about accent. There isn’t a variation in Scottish accent that habitually omits a “d” from word versus habitually including one.

For example, nobody in Scotland says “murdered” as “murrerd”.

The omission or inclusion of the “d” in Kircudbright may be two different schools of thought about whether the d should be vocalised or not, but people’s reasons for choosing one or the other have nothing to do with their accents.

Never ever heard Kir-kood-bray
Always Kir-koo-bray

No Scottish accent I can think of would add a d

I've lived in the Borders all my life, albeit on the other side, and have never heard a D in Kirkcudbright.

Having lived in London most of my life and regularly visited my aunt in Marylebone, I get very frustrated by the recent change of pronunciation, mostly from relative newcomers, from Marry-le-bone to some mess like Mah-li-bon. The y is pronounced, always has been by the people who lived there, the bus conductors on arrival there and people who worked there.

Now, if someone from Fife could tell me how Burntisland is pronounced, I'd be very grateful.

My mother used to think it was Burntis-land. I'm not from Fife but it's always been Burnt-island.
I was always very jealous as a child going past it on the train as there always seemed to be a funfair.

The "ford" in Guildford and Oxford isn't pronounced the same as the ford in Chandler's Ford (or, I think Fordingbridge unless someone tells me it's Fudingbridge (or something different again ). That isn't accent, it's the way those places are pronounced. And you don't pronounce the d in Guildford, which is why a lot of people spell it wrong (without the d),

My favourite local one is Congresbury, pronounced congsbry,it sounds really odd when it's called con gres bury.

One weird one is Abertillery, which is pronounced aber til ery but a lot of non locals called Aber tillery ( as in artillery) so poking fun at these people we started calling it Aber tillery.

So if you hear Aber tillery you don't know if it a genuine error or a piss take. Mind you this was lat 70s early 90s so may no longer happen

Anyone able to tell me the correct pronunciation of Wickwar in Gloucestershire?

Bath is pronounced Barth and not Baath.

Bath sounds like Bat only with a th not a t.
Abertillery is 'AB-er Till-ERR-y' not AB-er TILL-ery

@WhatThenEh what does rhotic mean?

Bath is Barth as that’s how us southerners speak, and Bath is in the south.

Exactly @BoobyDazzler ! (I live less than 10 miles away ).

Rhotic speakers pronounce the “r” in words. Scots and most Americans are rhotic speakers.

So we say “”boRed” whereas a speaker from the south of England would say ”Bohd” with a slightly lengthened “o” . We say “drawur” for “drawer” whereas non-rhotic speakers say “draw”. We say carr, not cah.

Interesting how different those pronunciations were. One sounded like the "thl" version, some sounded like "sh" to me. (Australian, I've rarely heard Welsh.)

@IPartridge , I'm not sure but I think it's wick-war
@Catsmere , the majority of them say it as 'Ll'. I think a couple of them didn't sound quite right.

Is Ll sounded sort of in the sides of the mouth, around the tongue? I vaguely remember it being described that way once.

No idea. I've read various descriptions of where to put the tongue but they didn't make sense to me.

I can't even manage to make a proper S sound, I'd have no hope!

GWYBODIADUR: the dreaded LL sound (tripod.com)

Very interesting! Given I lisp, maybe I make something like the sound without realising. 😄

I know a couple of people with that lisp. One of them also says J similar to G.