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

I've never heard Godmanchester pronounced the Google suggested way. And Hunstanton is pronounced both ways.
Unlike Happisburgh (Haisbruh) and Woolfardisworthy (Woolsery - actually now on road signs).

Thanks @GogLais

With no double entendre intended - my tongue certainly has had a workout today! 😂

Is Shrewsbury, shroosbury or shrows-bury?

@ExecutionersBong , at the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, either is fine, but if you live there you probably say SHOOSBRY.

Try this one in Hartlepool - Greatham

Grit-um?

I've been laughed at a fair few times for mispronouncing place names and foreign words. it means I'm more likely to get it right next time.

Conchiglie isn't contch-iggly

Port-merrion is hardly the most offensive I know but really infuriates me. Why can’t they sound it out like you do with kids! Welsh is so so easy!

As usual a lot of it comes down to accents. I'd say Guild- ford not Gil-fud.

I once asked my BiL if he'd been to Bourne-mouth. He pretended to have no idea where I meant then said "Oh do you mean Bon-mith" very sarcastically,

@Amimaimia , the eir is tricky. Port-mirey-un is just as bad.

@RaraRachael , it's Gil-fud not Gild-fud. It's not down to accent.
Bury - berry or boorry, or Wilmslow - wilmslow or wimslow, is down to accent,

I grew up not far from Sowerby Bridge and I say Soerbi with the emphasis on the o and the e only hinted at.

The one that annoys me because Look North reporters often get it wrong is Tod. They say Tod-MOR-den instead of TOD-mu-dn.

Whether you say the 'd' in Guildford or not isn't down to accent. Neither is saying 'ford' instead of 'fud'. It's 'fud'. Do you also pronounce e.g. Oxford as 'ox-fORd' rather than 'Ox-fud'? And do you mean you pronounce the second half of Bournemouth as the actual word 'mouth'?

I’ve listened to your second clip and I am hearing Keithly, exactly as I’ve been pronouncing it for 40 years. I have a friend whose surname was Keighley and a friend who grew up in Keighley and they both pronounce it Keithly too. It’s very strange.

But Chapel Allerton is Allerton. Just to confuse people I think.

Ashby de La Zoosh 👍

@TakeOnFlea @Mytholmroyd

Keighley was my maiden name, I also live 10 miles away from Keighley and it's definitely pronounced a Key th lee.
@Mytholmroyd are you my sister?

When I was a kid, Dad used to tell me if ever anyone called asking for a Mr Keylee to hang up the phone, as it was a sure sign they were trying to sell something.

I have to name change now.

Also Harrogate is only pronounced Harrogate if you live there.

To the rest of us in the surrounding area (unless you're posh) it's Arrigut.

Pronouncing the R is down to accent, Scottish people and other people with rhotic accents will say -ford not -fud.

I stay there at lot with some locals and they definitely say Keith-ly. I tend to believe them since they were born and bred there.

I say Shrows

Yes I pronounce the r in Oxford, do you actually think no one does?

My favourite local one is pronounced
Pennystun

Not Penis tone

@Vittuunterroristit , I've not heard anyone say Ox-ford, only Oxfud

Not far from Shibbun and Rootam is Trottiscliffe, said Trosly.

My parents moved the Cirencester, known to be tricky. I listened a lot and decided to stick to the long version - It shows up class if you choose the wrong one. Ziren, Sister (used in Kemble by the RAF in the war), Ciceter, Cicester - there's others. If you try saying them you can work out which goes with a long rural speech and which with a clipped "educated" speech. I didn't want anyone to think I was taking the mickey.

wrong Tarbolton, Ayrshire
right Tar bout an

wrong Coylton, Ayrshire
right Cul tin