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pneA poll on the pronunciation of some English placenames—mostly for people from the UK.
[Poll #399505]Any other placenames with "interesting" pronunciations you can tell me?
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Date: Wednesday, 8 December 2004 03:15 (UTC)I say both Sissister and Soyren for Cirencester.
I grew up very near Thame so 'Thame's' exists for me as a word and is pronounced Taymz (the town is Taym), but that's just pernickety. And the Thames around here is pronounced Isis.
Other interesting placenames:
Cherwell which is Char-well when a river and Cher-well when a district.
Ducklington is pronounced Derk-lington locally.
Kingston Bagpuize - the second word is Bag-pews.
Eynsham - En-shum, not Ayn-sham (but the local radio presenters don't seem to know this)
Ewelme - Yoo-elm, which ought to be easy but I've heard a lot of awful versions.
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Date: Wednesday, 8 December 2004 03:19 (UTC)Don't confuse the poor chap:-)
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Date: Wednesday, 8 December 2004 03:29 (UTC)