List Of Names In English With Non-intuitive Pronunciations

• Arkansas — . Compare Kansas
• Buccleuch —
• Caius (as in Caius College, Cambridge) —
• Cholmondeley —
• Cirencester, now usually spelling pronunciation , but formerly and occasionally still pronounced *
• Cockburn —
• Cosham, Hampshire —
• Dalziel (as in the UK television series Dalziel and Pascoe) — or
• Des Moines, Iowa —
• Edinburgh, Scotland —
• Etobicoke, Ontario —
• Featherstonehaugh — , , , , or intuitively as *
• Frome, Somerset —
• Gloucester (English city and Massachusetts city), both (RP and Boston accent) or (General American)
• Greenwich, Greater London, also Greenwich, Connecticut and Greenwich Village in New York City —
• Holborn, Greater London —
• Illinois —
• Islay (island of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland) —
• Keighley, West Yorkshire) —
• Kiribati (island nation in Pacific Ocean) —
• Kirkby, Merseyside —
• Kirkcudbright, Scotland —
• Leicester, England and Leicester, Massachusetts —
• Leominster, Herefordshire — . Compare Leominster, Massachusetts which is more intuitively pronounced .
• Mackinac Island, Michigan —
• Magdalen(e) (as in Magdalen College, Oxford and Magdalene College, Cambridge) —
• Manchaca, Texas —
• Marjoribanks —
• Menzies (as in Menzies Campbell) —
• Mousehole, Cornwall —
• Naas, County Kildare, Ireland —
• Natchitoches, Louisiana —
• Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland —
• Pedernales River, Texas —
• Sean (first name of Irish origin) —
• Siobhan (first name of Irish origin) —
• Sioux (e.g. Sioux Falls, South Dakota) —
• Slough, Berkshire —
• Southwark, Greater London —
• Spokane, Washington —
• Tal(l)iaferro (American place & family names) —
• River Thames —
• Towcester, Northamptonshire —
• Warwick, UK —
• Worcester, England and Worcester, Massachusetts, both pronounced . Compare Wooster, Ohio
• Woolfardisworthy — or
• Youghal, County Cork, Ireland —

References

1. G. M. Miller (editor), BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names. Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-19-431125-2

See also

• English spelling
• List of words of disputed pronunciation, the proper home for names frequently mispronounced by non-locals but whose "correct" pronunciation is still easily deducible from the spelling.
• List of place names with unexpected pronunciation, list of familiar-looking place names but whose pronunciations are unexpected.

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