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Ste Posted Dec 18, 2005
Ah! Icy North! You're totally right. It *is* "B'reh". 
Ste
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Whisky Posted Dec 19, 2005
Digging into the backlog...
"Torpenhow is Torpenna"
Everyone around where I used to live used to call the place
Trepennuh
Silly name for a village anyway... The name actually means "hill, hill, hill".
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Dec 19, 2005
A few from Scotland:
Berwick = Berrik
Grais = Gress
Ecclefechan = Don't even try if you're one of the people who can't even pronounce 'loch' properly.
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pedro Posted Dec 19, 2005
Mr D, how could you forget
Milngavie = Mulguy
As for foreign ones, when I used to work for an airline it really psst me off when people asked if we flew to Cagg-liary and Mull-house (Cal-yari and Muloose to any plebs out there
).
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Orcus Posted Dec 19, 2005
Darnit, just when I thought I'd get to do Milngavie! 
How about
Kirkcudbright --> Kirk-cood-bree
Auchtermuchty - much like ecclefecchan, with similar amounts of phlegm involved
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 19, 2005
Alright!
That's it. This thread has convinced me that when I go visit England and Scotland I'm going to treat the place like a Vietnamese restaurant and just point at the map (menu) and say "I want to go there".
(Vietnamese is a tonal language and unless you have perfect pitch you really don't know what you're saying, so don't try.)
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Ste Posted Dec 19, 2005
Has anyone mentioned good ol Brizzol (Bristol), formerly of the county of Zummerseh (Somerset), whose principal town in Tan-tun (Taunton)?
Ste
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Ste Posted Dec 19, 2005
Bristol - Brissle - Brizzle - Brizzol - Brissow. They can't seem to make their minds up...
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Elenitsa Posted Dec 19, 2005
Trust me - we don't sound the "T" and certainly don't sound the "ol"!
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Ste Posted Dec 19, 2005
I've heard Bristolians say it with a distinct '-ol' at the end. Maybe it's because the second syllable is sort of drawn out?
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chorlton Posted Dec 19, 2005
Well I live within a mile of lornes'il in bristle, whas wanna know?
wos fink ov ee then
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Dec 19, 2005
Launceston in Cornwall is Lanse-son
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airscotia-back by popular demand Posted Dec 19, 2005
And Exeter is Ex-EDDER.
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Dec 19, 2005
No Exeter is prounouced "Scum-town".
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Hoovooloo Posted Dec 19, 2005
I happen to live in Shrewsbury, and in my experience, locals pronounce it "shoosbree" - very much one "r", and an "oo" as in "shoe" not "o" as in "go".
My personal favourite is another Shropshire (I think) place, which at some point must have required an Act of Parliament to officially separate its spelling from its pronunciation (cf. Siobhan mentioned in the Meaning of Liff) - Cholmondley.
How would you pronounce "Cholmondley"?
Try it a few times. Try it a LOT of times. Eventually, possibly, you'll reach the correct one...
"Chumlee".
Where did the "u" sound come from? Where did the "o" go? Where did the OTHER "o" go? What happened to the "l", or the "d"??? Bizarre.
Also, isn't there a place called "Featherstonehaugh", pronounced "Fanshaw"?
SoRB
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Dec 19, 2005
There's Ramsgit 'n' Margit on the Eye-aw a Fannit. The T is swallowed and only hinted at, like the Morecambe (Mawcum) and Wise Sketch 'Morney Stannit'
(aka Ramsgate and Margate on the Isle of Thanet)
(the locals are more Estuary English than anyone in Essex, I can promise you. Not called Plannit Fannit for nothing)
Tideswell is Tidser, while Eyam is Eem, in Derbyshire. (Darbeeshear)
And my favourite ... Buccleuch, pronounced Ba-Klew.
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Dec 19, 2005
And I bet you all want to know just why the pronunciation is so weird ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F16034?thread=76493&skip=9740&show=1
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Dec 20, 2005
SoRB, I think 'Featherstonehaugh' pronounced Fanshaw is a surname, rather than a place. Although I could be wrong.
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- 88: Elenitsa (Dec 19, 2005)
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