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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 31 July 11 10:54 BST (UK) »
Three near me in Northumberland..

Cambois pronounced Cammus
Ulgham pronounced Uffum
Cowpen pronounced Coopn
Amos,Burnside,Cowan,Hamilton,Lawrie,Reid,Skeldon,(East Lothian, Berwickshire)
Matthew,Tough,Sheriff,Guild,Gourlay,Cundall,Brown(Angus,Midlothian&Australia)
Dunn,Coombs,Dalrymple,Newman,Elliott, Embleton,Day
(Northumberland,Hampshire,Kent,Middlesex)
McPherson , Perth, Scotland
Cameron, Perthshire

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 31 July 11 11:04 BST (UK) »
Hautbois ... Suffolk  =  Hobbis
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 31 July 11 11:32 BST (UK) »
How about some Ulster ones?

Portglenone = Port glen own (not Port glen one- BBC newsreaders please take note)
Maghera = Ma her a ... but Magherafelt = Ma her felt
Camus = Cams
Articlave = Art i cliff
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 31 July 11 11:49 BST (UK) »
Greater Manchester area (all ones I've heard "alternatives" for on radio/TV)

Blackley  = Blake lee

Wythenshawe = With en shore

Audenshaw = Or den shore
Altrincham = Ol tring ham

Broughton = Bror ton

(I know about the Bury one posted earlier, but can honestly say I've never heard Burry except on discussions about pronounciation - is it fading away?)

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 31 July 11 11:57 BST (UK) »
Cogenhoe in Northamptonshire is pronounced Cook no.  This is obviously a long standing pronunciation as it appears as the place of birth in 1851 etc, censuses spelt Cookno or Cooknow.

Also interesting are how the names of rivers are pronounced.  For example the river Nene in Northamptonshire is pronounced to rhyme with men in Northampton but by the time it reaches Peterborough it rhymes with mean.  This completely confuses the traffic news presenters on the BBC who seem to randomly use the wrong pronunciation.
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Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 31 July 11 13:28 BST (UK) »
Cholmondley in Cheshire is pronounced Chumley

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 31 July 11 13:30 BST (UK) »
Plaistow in the East End of London is pronounced Plah stoh

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 31 July 11 15:52 BST (UK) »
Shipbourne, Kent - "Shibbun"

Boughton:  Nr Canterbury, Kent - "Borton"
                  Nr. Ollerton, Notts -     "Boo'en"
Rogers: Sussex
Sanders/Saunders: Brenchley, Kent
Hales: Navenby, Lincs
Lidbetter: Sussex
Burns: Birmingham/Weston-super-Mare
Gray/Stocks: Weston-super-Mare
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Aldridge and Aldridge/Hayden
Bubb: Kent
Ward: Notts

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 31 July 11 16:52 BST (UK) »
 
Burgh in Cumbria is pronounced Bruff
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Torpenhow is Trpena
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