Ways to Pronounce UK Place Names

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Yes, and the mutations make much more sense in spoken Welsh than written.

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Don’t forget Soding Chipbury just outside of Brisol

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Leigh is an interesting one . Is it lee or lye

Round my way (West Oxfordshire) we have both North Leigh and South Leigh
Locals will pronounce Nor Lye and Sow Lye

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Just up the road from Sadly Broke

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Another from north of the border - Milngavie = Mulgai, at least where I came from.

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Ha, ha, very good.

Here’s one the Norwegians did in response to the unfathomable Danish language (English).

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Newmarket.
The locals pronounce it as Mewnarket.

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One of my favourites is Hawick, a small town on the Scottish border.

Pronounced, IIRC, Hoy-k.

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My father, a tanker driver for part of his life, always said ‘High Wi-com-be’.

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Locally the “High” word is never used, it’s just “Wikum”

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or perhaps a little more like Millgie?

I used to play golf there occasionally many years ago.

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@Hmack, I am not going to argue with that, seem to recall local nuances of mi, mo and mu at the beginning. Common feature was the lgai/lgie. Really need to improve my pronunciation lettering. Ending was as in sky.

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Clearly that’s a Bristol thing. In 50+ years of living in (or near) Bath I’ve never received a letter addressed as such…

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I think so, it was late 1950s. My mum’s half brother lived at Radstock and I know my dad always used to address cards in that way. Of course those that came back were written in the reverse.

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I live in Hampshire and always thought it must be confusing to foreigners to have it referred to as Hants.

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Better than Salop for Shropshire presumably, although both terms are correct.

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I suspect that there are similar Cheltenham/Gloucester stories.

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Adjacent towns with their rapidly disappearing local pronounciations.
Not many of us left can speak proper.
Harwich….Aridge. Not a(n) ‘h’ anywhere
Brightlingsea….Britlensea
St. Osyth….Toosie
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Chipshop in Devon.
Pronounced as Chishop.

Cholmondeley in Cheshire.
Pronounced as Chumlee.

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As opposed to Chulmleigh in Devon pronounced - um - Chumley.
And Alswear pronounced Allser