How come I can pronounce every non-anglicised Welsh and Irish placename going but have been mispronouncing “Lewes” all my life. What is going on with the English language.
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I've lost count of the number of times I've heard English and American people pronounce Donegal as "Donnergull".
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Yeah, there was a lot of it on TV the other day, and the BBC have a whole pronunciation unit ffs
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Dun Laoghaire is a trap tbf, pronounced neither as an Anglo would expect nor as an actual Irish speaker would pronounce it. True shibboleth.
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It's actually like an English placename in that respect
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My mum (from Liverpool but scholarship to public school) always anglicised local (North Walian) placenames. Now, this is the odd thing, she now has dementia but has started to pronounce the 'LL' correctly. Strange huh?
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I’ve only just found out that Berkhamsted is pronounced BERKHAMsted. I’ve been saying BERKhampsted for years & nobody corrected me
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There some very strange location pronunciation oddities. I was always baffled as to why the River Nene is pronounced differently in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. One calls it ‘Neen’ and the other ‘Nen’.
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I thought Billericay was in Ireland for about 30 years.
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An American tourist came up to me at Edgware Road some years back and, assuming that all English names were pronounced weirdly, asked how she could take “the see-are-silly line”. Took a while to work out that she meant “circle” but she didn’t realise it was just a normal word.
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