words that have non-intuitive pronunciation

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like magdalene...who decided to pronounce it modlin or whatever it is.

There are loads of these words in UK.

Someone should make a board game of it.

Any good ones near you?

I am from the south and all normal people around here say scone as in gone

and all the way from Lancashire, I give you...
Quernmore

any guesses???

Kwormer

There's a Beauchief in Sheffield which is Bee-chuff.

Wynbunbury in Cheshire = win-bury.

back a few posts, isn't ho'burn the way to say holborn then?

I believe it is Ho'burn but I always say 'Hole-born'.

someone mentioned Wymondham earlier - the Norfolk one is pronounced Windum - but not sure how the one in the midlands is said?

Wistaston - near Crewe - have forgotten how that is said - but whatever it is I got it wrong when my friend lived there.

Cowbit - Cubit

It has to be 'sconn'. Otherwise the joke 'What is the fastest bakery product in teh world?' doesn't work.

And we can't have that.

I am FROM near Wymondham in Norfolk (but have mated outside my immediate family)

Vacua - how near ?

Wistaton - wis-stas-on I think.

I had a bit of a debate with my x bf about Nantwich nearby. I kept asking him if it was Nan-twich or Nant-wich. This was after I'd called it a 'village' .

um, near Swaffham - you?

(have moved thousands of miles away into Suffolk now tho)

I used to live in a villiage called Tangmere (tang - me - er) i was forever getting asked for directions to Tonge - more- aye by people who didn't know how to pronounce it!

re scone/sconn:

If you can remember Patricia Routledge pouring tea in John Betjeman's 'How to get on in society' you will know it has to be 'sconn' because anything else is pure Hyacinth Bucket:

'Milk and then just as it comes, dear?
I'm afraid the preserve's full of stones.
Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doilies
With afternoon teacakes and scones.'

I remeber once pissing myself laughing t some americans a few yaers ago, who asked me for directions to Combe Down in Bath (pron Coom Down) They pron. it Combi Down. It took me ages to get where they were on about

Vacua - more over towards Long Stratton - not a native though.

so with your Suffolk expertise - how do you pronounce Thrandestone ?

I live bear somewhere called Ambrosden, now as I see it there is no 'e' in the middle so it should be am-broz-den but I hear many people pronounce it am-brose-den (like the custard).

We have a Magdalene Street too, which I still forget to pronounce Maudlin.

I also lived near Cogenhoe (cook-no) for a while and was amused by non-locals trying to pronounce it.

goodness only knows - I don't know how to say Sproughton either

Thrandeston - hazarding a guess, thranston like branston?

Of course Scone in Perthshire is pronounced Scoon. Just to confuse things ...

Cley in Norfolk is Cly

Avoch on the Black Isle in Scotland is pronounced "Och". How could anyone possibly guess that right?

You have to be born there? or speak Gaelic?

Trottiscliffe

pronounced.... Trosley