‘Who wants to torment Americans with English place name pronunciations?’ 27 hard to say favourites
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I was once stopped by a woman with two young children in Piccadilly Circus. She asked me ‘is this Piccadilly Circus?’ I said yes. ‘Where is the circus, then?’ She asked. I wondered if she’d got out a map that morning & said ‘kids, there’s lots of circuses in London…’
— Mr H (@thefishytaste) May 3, 2021
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Trottiscliffe in Kent is one of my faves (pronounced Trosley) https://t.co/rMUEiIILIU
— Angela Barnes (@AngelaBarnes) May 3, 2021
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I once heard an American pronounce Knaresborough (North Yorkshire) as Nars-berg. A cute little city!
— GhostOfLloydLoar Woke Bunny-hugger Esq. (@LloydLoarsGhost) May 3, 2021
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Not just English place names…Edinburgh, Milngavie, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright. A lot of English struggle with the latter three, let alone Americans!
Did anyone say Alnwick yet for the English ones?
— Sophie (@bemusedwithlife) May 3, 2021
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Loughborough
Or as I like to call it loogerborooger https://t.co/iq0LvDYVyG— Tenacious L (she/her) (@electricsmartie) May 3, 2021
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In 1969 I was crossing the Holloway Rd (near Holloway Rd tube) when a car drew up, going north, the window was lowered & an American voice asked..”Are we on the right road for the Lake District??
I just said “yeah! Turn left just before Darlington!”They seemed happy enough!
— GrouchyMarxist (@Evilgenius222) May 3, 2021
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Holborn. Marylebone. Keswick. Loughborough. Leicester. Ruislip. Leominster. Mousehole. Fowey.
— Lucy Wainwright (@Whoozley) May 3, 2021
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Beaulieu in Hampshire is a good one. Pronounced “Bewley”.
— Kaya Burgess (@kayaburgess) May 3, 2021
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I see your England and I raise you Scotland: Auchtermuchty, Ecclefechan, Milngavie, Crianlarich, Eigg, Culzean, Freuchie, Garioch, Auchenshuggle, Findochty, Kilconquhar, Kirkcudbright, Achahoish, Dubh Artach, Ballachulish. https://t.co/grQNd43xYy
— Laura McConnell (@LauraFMcConnell) May 3, 2021
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Chiswick, Leicester, Keighley, Reading, Shrewsbury, Slough… To name but a few…
— Cecelia **Seriously annoying*Refugees (@cernusson) May 3, 2021
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I think we’ve got this covered in Norfolk ….. I see you’ve already got Wymondham but we’ve also got Happisburgh, Postwick, Stody …..
— Lily the Maskateer (@Lilyisthinking) May 3, 2021
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Moggerhanger in Bedfordshire is pronounced Morhanger … and my favourite is Garboldisham in Suffolk … pronounced garblesham (or sometimes garblessam)
— John Spiers (@squeezyjohn) May 3, 2021
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Some of my local (ish) faves:
Leominster
Cirencester
Warwick
Worcester
Gloucester
Michaelwood— lifeintheartslane (@life_arts_lane) May 3, 2021
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Leicester (as a German, this buffles me no ends)
— birgit fujer (@BFujer) May 3, 2021
There’s lots more of this sort of thing here!
I love this video from the brilliantly talented Jay Foreman & Mark Cooper-Jones
Loughborough is a classic for mehttps://t.co/f1vf3lBXnY— Ad Smith (@AdpocalypseSoon) May 3, 2021
And just in the interests of balance and all that …
Who wants to torture some Brits with North American place names they can’t pronouce?
I’ll start.
Des Moines, Iowa.
also
Kissimmee, Florida.
also
Quinte, Ontario— Malcolm Kelly (author of SPROG) (@sportsnag) May 3, 2021
Source Twitter @BeTheMagpie