Place name mispronunciation

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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

Everyone with a Scottish accent is a pretentious prick. Lovely.

WTAF?

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'?

It's not "fud" in my accent, it's ford and yes I do pronounce Osford as Ox-FORD and the second half of Bournemouth as "mouth" strange as it may seem to you.

Some charmers on here this afternoon 🙄

@PuppyMonkey thank you 🤩

@RaraRachael , you are mispronouncing them.

@GogLais I'm not - you pronounce in one way in your accent, I pronounce it a different way in my accent.

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Quernmore

Have a go about how we pronounce it up here!

Oxford is Ox-fud, or Ox-furd if you have a rhotic accent. Bournemouth is Born-muth.
It has nothing to do with accent.

Kwermer? Kermer?

@GogLais I live near Aberdeen which I'd pronounce Aber-deen. In your accent you'd probably say Abuh-deen or similar.
I wouldn't say you're mispronouncing it, just saying if differently because of your accent.

Before I moved to the southwest I said 'Exmuth', but down here it is definitely Exmouth. But it is Dartmuth. Many people pronounce the -ham in Buckingham and similar, rather than it being -um.

Aberdeen isn't pronounced differently to how it looks.
I'd say Abbuh-deen. My friend born and bred there says Aberr-deen. That is due to accent. It wouldn't bother me to say the R in it as I speak Welsh and would sound the R in Aberystwyth, Aberaeron etc.

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I'm done

Kwormer

I was hoping someone would mention Machynlleth 😁

How on earth do you pronounce that?

@SauvignonBlanche ,

Mach-un-lleth. Ch like the ch in Scottish loch, Ll like the ch in German milch. un like in undone, unsaid etc

Close, but not quite

I'm with a man who was born there and he says Kirk coo bree.

Now I dont know who's right, but I'd go with the man born there.

It was always the Wee Kirk-coo-bree Centipede when my kids sang it 😅

@YellowAsteroid , how? I don't even know where it is. Is it near Oswaldtwistle?

On the subject of Mytholmroyd, downstream Sowerby Bridge is "Sore-be" Bridge.

Elsewhere in W Yorks, Slaithwaite is pronounced "Slawit". I had fun with the text-to-voice software when I set up the flood warning for there.

My village starts "Sci" and is pronounced like "Scissors", but confuses everybody.

Forgot to say, Welsh place names are usually stressed on the last but one syllable. e.g. CaerNARfon, CONwy, BANgor, WRECSam.

Teignmouth. It's Tinmuth.

I've never heard anyone pronounce the mouth in Teignmouth, Dartmouth or Exmouth like the mouth you eat with. Always muth.

Fowey is Foy

Polzeath is Poll-zeth

Trewoon is True-un

Trottiscliffe, Kent is Trosley

Keynsham.

Wrong - Key nu Sham.
Correct _ Cane-shum.