User:Morwen/Placenames

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Place names that have irregular pronunciations

Cester[edit]

  • Bicester (Bister)
  • Gloucester (Gloster) (and -shire)
  • Leicester (Lester) (and -shire)
  • Towcester (Toaster)
  • Worcester (Wooster) (and -shire)

gh[edit]

  • Edinburgh
  • Loughborough

ex[edit]

  • Essex (Essix)
  • Sussex (Sussix)
  • Wessex (Wessix)

other[edit]

  • Berkshire (Barkshire)
  • Bury (Burry)
  • Calderdale (Colderdale)
  • Cambridge (Camebridge) (and -shire)
  • Derby (Darby) (and -shire)
  • Dorset (Dorsit)
  • Greenwich (Grenitch)
  • Hertford (Hartford) (and -shire)
  • Holborn (Hoeburn)
  • Leamington (Lemmington)
  • Lincoln (Lincun) (and -shire)
  • Norfolk (Norfuck)
  • Reading (Redding)
  • Salisbury (Solsbury)
  • Salford (Solford)
  • Southwark (Suthuk)
  • Shrewsbury (Shrozebury)
  • Slough (rhymes with How)
  • Solihull (Sollyhull)
  • Somerset (Summerset)
  • Suffolk (Sufuck)
  • Torquay (Torkee)
  • Warwick (Worrick) (and -shire)
  • Windsor (Winsor)

?Warrington? ?Walsall?

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