Someone asked if people had heard ‘a foreigner absolutely mutilate a place name’ and, well, it turns out that Brits don’t need any help with that

13.

‘A friend was walking around York and got asked by an American how to get to Har-rog-ah-tee…or Harrogate to the informed.’
–Jezbod

14.

‘Edin-burrow is a common American one. Or Wor-sess-ter-shy-er. I didn’t know Bicester was just Bis-ter until I called it Bi-sess-ter to someone else…’
–Coconutpieplates

15.

‘Explain how to say Worcester, Leicester, Towcester etc, and then ask how they’d now think to say Cirencester.’
–magic_spurtle

16.

‘I live in South Wales and I’ve heard residents of Ynysddu (pronounced ‘un-is-thee’) decry attempts from non-locals and non-Welsh. Worst I’d been told about was a delivery driver looking for ‘wine-zee-doodoo’.’
–lockonandfire

17.

‘Faversham being pronounced as ‘Favours-ham’ still lives rent free in my head.’
–salladfingers

18.

‘Vauxhall but he pronounced the ‘aux’ like in faux. Voh-hall.’
–SerendipitousCrow

19.

‘Back in analogue TV days, ITV’s Teletext service had a ‘letters’ page, most of which were transcribed from answering machine messages. One day, they featured a letter from some punter living in ‘Toaster’ – I can only presume he actually hailed from Towcester.’
–RadioEng

20.

‘I’ve heard visitors pronounce every letter in the name Alnwick: ‘Aln-wick’ instead of ‘A’nick’. It’s a completely understandable mistake, but it makes me wonder why we don’t ditch the silent letters from such words.’
–jonathanquirk

21.

‘Okay so. I am a Brit but I have lived in Canada for for 10 years. Not only do place names get butchered daily but most North Americans don’t understand UK geography. Everyone assumes I’m from London (I’m not) or thinks they’ve heard of the small town I’m actually from (they haven’t).

I invented a fictional place as my home town and 99% of people just think it’s real. Come on West Bumshire!’
–holistichandgrenade

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