Boards
Which area of the country has the highest number of strangely-pronounced places?
Got to be East Anglia.
Manea pronounced May-nee
Happisburgh pronounced Haze-bruh
Costessy pronounced Cossy
Ingoldisthorpe pronounced Ingles-thorpe
etc
Got to be East Anglia.
Manea pronounced May-nee
Happisburgh pronounced Haze-bruh
Costessy pronounced Cossy
Ingoldisthorpe pronounced Ingles-thorpe
etc
I can't say for certain
wales obvs
Oh, by country, I mean England
Unless Welsh speakers can highlight terrible inconsistencies in how place names are spelt* / pronounced.
*Spelt? Spelled?
it's shameful how England-centric you are ccb.
I expected better.
alright Captain Obtuse
My point is that it would be unfair to give, say, Ystrad Mynach as an example if it's pronounced how a Welsh speaker would expect to pronounce it.
Nah
Welsh is incredibly consistent in its spelling and pronounciation. You just need to learn Welsh first, that is all.
Leicestershire
Devon's got Woolfhardisworthy
pronounced Woolsery.
Silly fuckers.
Ah
but roadsigns say Woolfardisworthy (Woolsery), which removes some doubt.
Wivenhoe, Flitwick, Tiptree, Holbeach, Pinchbeck, Terrington St Clement, Thetford Forest.
How would you like to be disposed of when you're dead?
c-c-c-c-c-cocaine!
I used to live in the 'Hoe
Halcyon days.
You forgot
Wymondham
of course! The Wymondham The Willows
scotland mate
yeah
I don't know enough about Gaelic to comment on Gaelic Scottish placenames.
you missed the obvious one
Norwich = Naaaaaaridge
On the Isle of Wight:
Shorwell (some pronounce it "Shorrel")
Kent has a few
Trottiscliffe - Trosley
Twydall - Twiddle
Wrotham - Routem
And some others I've forgotten
Oh, and of course where I'm from
which is spent Loose but pronounced Luze, like lose. I'm always getting loose and lose mixed up because of that.
Ok you're forgiven then.
What's everyone else's excuse?
and thong
Wrotham good and proper! #KentLAD
Slaithwaite in yorkshire
is pronounced Slewit (i think, don't kill me yorkshire metropolitan elite)
I think it's Sla-wit
Mr DF is from there
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_the_United_Kingdom_and_Ireland_with_counterintuitive_pronunciations
according to this (and a bit of pivot table work)
Lincolnshire comes up top:
1 // Lincolnshire // 17
2 // Norfolk // 10
2 // Cornwall // 10
4 // Northumberland // 9
4 // Devon // 9
6 // Dorset // 8
7 // Kent // 7
7 // Lancashire // 7
9 // Nottinghamshire // 6
9 // Northamptonshire // 6
cornwall
cause it's got loads of places where you don't even pronounce some of the letters
same thing as what the op was getting at
cornwall doesn't count though because it's not in england
ccb just meant places in england