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

London edit:

Plaistow
Wrong: Play-stow
Right: Plah-stow

However, I’ve never in all my years as a born and bred Londoner, been able to get a definitive answer to ‘Marylebone’. All in common usage: Mah-le-bone, Mah-le-bun, Marry-le-bone, Marry-le-bun.

Do they live there? Because the only person I've known say hunston was from there, the rest of Norfolk calls it Hunstanton!

All in Scotland

See also Milngavie and Kirkcudbright above

Kirkcaldy- kir-caw-dy
Culzean - cuh-lane
Culross - coo-riss
Scone - scoon
Wemys - weems
Cockburn - co-burn
Ecclefechan - eck-el-fech-han with the fech pronounced the same way as loch
Ballachulish - balla-hoolish
Auchertermuchty - och-ter-muck-tee
with the och pronounced the same way as loch
Freuchie - froo-kay
Islay - eye-luh
Chatelrehault - chat-le-row
Garioch - gee-ree
Hawick - hoick
Ae - eh

Godmanchester is pronounced Godmanchester. Emphasis on God.
It is NOT pronounced Gumster

Not sure I've ever heard anyone say "Gumster" either for Godmanchester, although I can imagine some older local residents might, as I've heard about it being called that, just not actually said out loud.

Keighley, Yorkshire
Keeth- Lee
Not Key-lee

Masham,
Mas- um
Not Mashum

Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire
Mith-um-roid
Not Mith- home-roid

Or, as you have just proven, easy to explain by posting a video.

I teach 3 languages for a living. I don't usually find that saying 'It doesn't fucking sound like that!', 'Dear God' and accusing people of 'Lazy anglicising' are very useful ways of correcting people or encouraging them to get it right. I also find the furious reactions to people having pronunciation difficulties with sounds that don't exist in their own languages frankly bizarre.

Hear hear.

Very helpful- thank you!

And, for the record, I'd bloody love to learn Welsh, and think its revival is a brilliant success story (when languages around the world are continuing to decline and die out).

This is reminding me that when I first moved to London as a callow youth, I thought Gants Hill should be pronounced in the French way. See also Theydon Bois.

Yes it's a beautiful language.

I'm from Dumfries and Galloway

It's Kir-koo-bree. No 'd'

Well now, 😂 close, but it is definitely My not Mi - My-thum-roid with the emphasis on the first syllable

Been waiting for this opportunity for over 20 years!

My favourite of these is Gotham in Nottingham. Pronounced Goat-um.

Keighley is NOT pronounced with a TH.

Where the fuck are you getting these from OP?

Which is “Theydon Boys” for those who don’t know. I also assumed it was “Bwah” when I first moved to London. Hadn't thought about Gants Hill being French though, like that!

I do 😊

A friend near Loughborough had an Italian tourist ask her the way to Loogie-bor-oogie!

How do you say it then? I always thought it was Keithley too.

I think you’re completely overlooking the context of Anglo-Welsh history, annexation, cultural suppression, othering etc.

Me too.

also the “Ll” is used a lot throughout the Country not just Llandudno so I would love for people to understand it! it appears three times in my address!

I'm from close by and we all pronounce it Keeth-li !

Keighley was my maiden name ☺️ - try working on the south and getting people to say it correctly! They can't do the swallow and the click - similar to how people can't really pronounce Ll in Welsh.

Th is probably the closest approximation I would use for non-native speakers!