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

North Essex Coast- Harwich
Wrong- Har-witch (rhymes with sandwich)
Right- Ha-Ridge

Not exactly the same, but bloody annoys me 😆
London- St Pancras
Its NOT St Pancreas!

I'm not confused. I know how to read.Nor am.I deaf. I used to work not far from Keighley and I have never heard anyone say anything but KeiTHley

That is what I have always heard but in Birmingham as a road name it tends to be All ces ter e.g. Alcester Road or Alcester Lane's End. So people tend to use both, or at least the people I knew.

Could someone tell me how to pronounce Marylebone? Subject of many a disagreement in my house

More Ozzle than Ossle, I'd say?

The small Welsh Town where I live. I get asked at work every summer how its pronounced. On the phone people just say, glad you said that lol

Marylebone = Mar-le-bone I think 🤔

As a resident, 'Alster' is right.

Holborn = Ho-b'n

Some people go more “bun” at the end.

Close, Mar-le-b'n

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

That's wrong, @BurntBroccoli . Llandidno is Llan-did-noh.

"I'm not confused. I know how to read.Nor am.I deaf. I used to work not far from Keighley and I have never heard anyone say anything but KeiTHley"

Then they're saying it wrong. If you're definitely not hearing it wrong.

And that's not surprising as you can be "not far from Keighley" and pronounce words very differently. That's how Yorkshire accents are.

It is not TH although TH is very close.

See my post on page 2. I’m a born and bred Londoner and I’ve heard various versions. I even use them interchangeably myself.

Holborn is similar. Hoe-bun, Hol-bun both acceptable.

Well, we will have to agree to differ - you may have heard that but you may not hear the difference. It's my family name and I was born and have lived in West Yorkshire for decades as have my whole family - I hear and speak it differently ☺️

Wasn't it the then Home Secretary James Cleverly who mis-pronounced,

'Stockton-on-Tees' as 'Shit-Hole'

Note: Recollections may vary (his does).

"Well, we will have to agree to differ - you may have heard that but you may not hear the difference. It's my family name and I was born and have lived in West Yorkshire for decades as have my whole family - I hear and speak it differently ☺️"

Getting told you're saying your actual name wrong because someone "used to work not far from there" 🤣 fucking brilliant.

Gotta go but I've enjoyed this thread and yes to more Ozzle than Ossle probably.

Daventry is Chav-entry

Ll is more of a THL sound than a CL sound.
It's neither of those.

I used to have a customer from Llanelli - he was very gracious at my attempts to pronounce it ☺️- I tried very hard but again, it's hard to hear and reproduce it correctly if you didn't grow up making those sounds.

OP brought it on herself by posting an incorrect pronunciation of Llandudno.

You're a teacher of languages, we're just native Welsh speakers who are exasperated of hearing Welsh names mangled.

Close.

I'm not from there but I care.

Yes I worked not far from Keighley, i will add that most of my colleagues were Keighley born and bred and they all pronounced it Keith-ley.
How bizarre then, there must be two Keighleys 🫢

I haven’t seen my little town here yet - Hednesford pronounced ensfud by the locals.