List of places in England with counterintuitive pronunciations: A–L

This is a sublist of List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations.

Pronunciations for the following common suffixes are regular pronunciations, despite being counterintuitive at first glance:

Pronunciation of the following common prefix is variable depending on dialect:

Place names in England

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

Map of counterintuitive places within London

Colney COney Hatch
De Beauvoir BEAver Town (usu.)
Marylebone MARlyb'n (alt.)
Plaistow PLAHsto
Ruislip RYslip
Greenwich GRENidge
Southwark SU-ðərK
Vauxhall VOK-sawl
Dulwich DULLidge
Chiswick CHIZick
Counterintuitive pronunciations

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Notes and references

Notes
  1. ↑ Accordingly: Southwick, Hampshire - /ˈsʌðᵻk/
    Anomalies: Southwick, West Sussex is pronounced /ˈsaʊθwᵻk/, like Painswick, Gloucestershire, Prestwick and Hardwick as well as Pickwick a former village in Wiltshire through which the novel The Pickwick Papers got its title, but these by population represent a very small minority.
  2. ↑ This is doubly counter-intuitive if adopting an exception re: G from the other place names named Gifford, the forename and the surname.
  3. ↑ Also a surname.
  4. ↑ c.f. Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A., which is intuitive (/ˈbɛlɪŋhæm/
  5. ↑ Also an area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and see Belvoir Park Golf Club[4]
  6. ↑ Mirrors British "clerk", which is also irregular.
  7. ↑ The River Cam and sometimes Cambridge, Gloucestershire are pronounced with /kæm/; however, locals now pronounce the latter like the city.
  8. ↑ C.f. nearby intuitive Uckfield
  9. ↑ Intuitive also heard, like Holborn, especially in relatively new residents.
  10. ↑ The adjacent village, Harewood, is pronounced intuitively. The other main stately home of broad architectural and historical note with an unusual pronunciation is: Cliveden
  11. ↑ c.f. Islip, Oxfordshire identical but for the r with: Ruislip
  12. ↑ cf. Launceston, Tasmania, pronounced /ˈlɒnsəstən/)
  13. ↑ cf. Leominster, Massachusetts
References
  1. ↑ e.g. City of Leicester which follows e.g. Towcester, Rocester and Alcester – /ˈɒlstər/ or /ˈɔːlstər/
  2. ↑ Well-known, large examples are Woolwich and West Bromwich cf. Nantwich and Droitwich Spa
  3. ↑ e.g. Smethwick, Chiswick and Flitwick
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 Wells, John C. (2000). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. 2nd ed. Longman. ISBN 0-582-36468-X.
  5. ↑ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Bristol_and_Somerset/2000-01/0949053929
  6. ↑ Reflecting original "Beldesert" "Beaudesert and Henley-in-Arden Website | Warwickshire | Our Town|History|". Henley-in-Arden. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  7. ↑ Bill Bryson (1991-09-01). The Mother Tongue. HarperCollins. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-380-71543-5.
  8. ↑ In south Oxfordshire; pronunciation varies in north Oxfordshire, see BBC Oxford How do you pronounce Cherwell?
  9. ↑ Wells, John (6 May 2010). "Chideock". John Wells's phoetic blog. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
  10. ↑ "Chop Gate". yorkshiremoors.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  11. ↑ "History of Cowbit - Cowbit Village". cowbitvillage.co.uk. 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 Pronouncing British Placenames at BBC's Edited Guide Entry h2g2 site
  13. ↑ Lycett Green, Candida. Unwrecked England. Oldie. p. 30.
  14. ↑ Pointon, G.E. (1983). BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-212976-7.
  15. ↑ "Oliver Cromwell's home; fields amid which his boyhood was passed. Villages in the neighborhood- where other great men were born-the boy Oliver saved.". nY Times. 1888-12-30. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
  16. ↑ (as in Greenwich Mean Time and as in the US namesakes) or the more old-fashioned /ɡrɪnᵻtʃ/
  17. ↑ Roach & Hartman, eds (1997) English Pronouncing Dictionary, 15th edition. (Cambridge University Press). p. 234

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