Pronunciation - would you correct?

[Dipsydoodlenoodle]

I'm aware this isn't the right place to post but I wanted some advice about what you would have done.

We were out with friends a few months ago, they have a 6 year old dd. Friends are foreign. Let's call them Adam and Eve lol. I'm Friends with Adam and have met Eve on several occasions but don't know her well.

Eve says to Dd6 "what does this say"...Dd6 read it perfectly and pronounced it perfectly. Eve corrected dd6 for saying a local place wrong...(Eve pronounced it as it reads, rather than as its said). Obviously as I don't know her well I didn't want to interfere...but would you have corrected her (OK maybe not on front of dd6, but quietly to the side)?

I have several foreign friends and all are happy to get help with pronunciation or phrases...I just felt as I didn't know her very well, that it would be rude. I did consider trying to drop it into conversation, but I couldn't.

They say Bally men a Should be Bally mean a

Was it Happisburgh? Fowey? Mousehole?

Why does this still bother you several months later? If Eve lives here, she'll soon figure out that many English words are pronounced differently to how they are spelled.

Awlsford or Arlsford. That is the question

I've been on the train plenty of times and heard the announcement pronounced wrong - I don't think I'd correct if it was obvious what word the person meant. Everyone's got their own way of pronouncing

Tintinhull, Hatch Beauchamp or Chideock?

Literally never heard of any of these either spoken or written 😁

Are they all in one region of the UK?

How should you say Debach - not Dee-back? I’m interested to know.

never been sure about Holborn either - I’ve always said Ho-bun. Is that correct? And Mar-le-bone?

DH is from Wishaw, pronounced Wishy by locals.

Kircudbright?

A friend of mine always calls St. Pancras station ‘St. Pancreas’. I’ve never corrected her!

Yes. Woolfardisworthy is usually known as Woolsery.

But I have been to Boscastle many times and I've never heard of anyone pronouncing it in any way other than Boss Castle.

Fair enough @Fifthtimelucky I must be thinking of somewhere else. Or just been misinformed.

Glad you didn't call me out on Cowbit as s ljncs is where I am from

Ah well I've never been to Cowbit!

Except in Salford where Cholmondeley Road is pronounced Chol mund early and I was wrong with Chumley.

Keighley in Yorkshire was one was always had to spell out, it's pronounced Keethly.

Uttoxeter?

Haha no and I don't recommend it

I would instantly have said " Eve, you're the one who made a mistake, DC is absolutely right. It is pronounced <properly pronounced> ".

Eve learnsa new pronunciation and some better manners.

Yes there are always regional differences.

As I said on a different thread today, I was surprised to discover that Beaconsfield Road in Hastings is pronounced Beacons Field rather than Beckons Field

Oh yes, "Woolsery", I always think of that when this subject comes up!

eh ?
i thought it was pronounced as spelt ?
i had a teacher who used to live near there, and she pronounced it as written.

Holborn is definitely said as:

Hoe-burn,
with equal stress on both parts.
i like plaistow.
that catches some out.
i actually think the correct pronunciation of plaistow sounds quite posh.
plarrrrstow.

There's also a Plaistow in West Sussex. I always assumed that it was pronounced in the same way as the one in London, but actually it's Plass-toh.

i was interested to find some little villages in derbyshire called holloway, hackney and kilburn.
utterly different topographically from their better known london twins.
obviously non-identical twins.

i thought it was pronounced as spelt ?

Yes, exactly. he'd got to grips with the quirks of other U.K. placenames like Worcester, so expected there to be some trick to Cirencester.

I just wat to know h to be place name. Quernmore?