Talk:List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom

Langdon Hills

Langdon Hills is one of the settlements that makes up Basildon. For some reason I've noticed people pronounce it as "Laindon Hills", such as the neighbouring Laindon. Everyone I know that lives there or has been there calls it "Lane-don Hills" not "Lang-don" hills. I know this is pedantic but always thought it was odd since moving there. Bezuidenhout (talk) 17:32, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Note on my edit (12/4/17)

I pressed "enter" before I finished the editing remarks, sorry. The edit itself was fine.
Loose, Kent with the pronunciation /lu:z/ was listed here. I don't know if someone changed the IPA pronunciation. I do know that if it was the right one, this is definitely no counterintuitive pronunciation. /l/ is the normal pronunciaton for the l letter. /u:/ is the normal pronunciation for the digraph oo when in stressed position. /z/ is the normal pronunciation for the letter s when being between two vowels, non-redoubled. And not pronouncing it at all is the normal pronunciation of unstressed e at the end of a word after a consonant.--2001:A61:260D:6E01:31BB:ABA2:5315:7D71 (talk) 12:30, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

It's counterintuitive because all English speakers pronounce the word "loose" (meaning "not fixed") as /luːs/.-- Dr Greg  talk  19:11, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

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Derby

How is Derby a counter-intuitive pronunciation? AnselaJonla (talk) 13:51, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Do you know of any word spelled with er and pronounced with /ɑːr/, not /ɜːr/ or /ər/, aside from Berkeley, clerk, derby, Hertford, and sergeant? Nardog (talk) 13:56, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Coven, Staffordshire

Could we add Coven to the list? CrossHouses (talk) 00:18, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Merge M-Z places into here, and rename article?

There aren't really enough counterintuitively named places in England to warrant two separate articles. Starbeam2 (talk) 06:39, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Ingoldisthorpe

Is there a size limit on places in this list? If not, I'd like to offer Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk (pronounced more like in-gulls-thorpe, sorry I don't know ipa)

Also, local pronunciation of nearby Hunstanton is closer to "Hun-ston", but as-read is accepted, so I don't know if that qualifies — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amazingakita (talk • contribs) 23:21, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Northern v Southern English

On this article it shows the way 'ford' is pronounced in some places as 'ferd' but in the north and midlands especially that becomes 'fud' ie fʌd with a short u, because of the tendency to drop letters such as r. I also understand that is the case in other counties such as Suffolk. http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/pronunciation.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.64.41.136 (talk) 10:47, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Cirencester

I lived in Cirencester for a number of years but never heard anyone say SIS-i-tər, though I did hear someone report that they had heard someone say it like that once (as in "One doesn't get into Sisiter very awfen". Local folk often just say "Ciren" (SIGH-ren), or they say it in full as it is spelled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sygmadelta (talk • contribs) 22:30, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Merger proposal

List of places in the United Kingdom with counterintuitive pronunciations overlaps with this list and points to this list as if it were only for England. Sounds like these two lists were split at one point nice and cleanly, but now have lots of overlap. Either combine or properly parse out this list into each UK country. I believe merging it into one list is best. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:16, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

I don't know how that "counterintuitive pronunciations" article fell through the cracks when we renamed the rest of them. That's effectively a WP:CONTENTFORK. I'd say you can be bold and merge them now. Nardog (talk) 22:34, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Well I went ahead and did it. This just seems an oversight from when we merged these articles. Nardog (talk) 22:47, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the work. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 23:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Acomb, York

It's /ˈeɪkəm/. I have lived in York 25 years. No one calls it Yakem. 82.34.144.26 (talk) 20:41, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

The same is true for Acomb in Northumberland, having grown up a mile from it. Theknightwho (talk) 00:05, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Hednesford, Staffordshire

This one's also irregularly pronounced Asheiou (talk) 03:54, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Kailzie (Scotland)?

How is this pronounced? It’s not listed here and it has an unintuitive pronunciation (which I can’t get a straight answer anywhere online about). 96.241.145.24 (talk) 19:15, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Norwich

I've grown up in Norfolk, and I have moved away for my studies at university. Not once, whether local or from other parts of the UK, have I ever heard someone refer to Norwich as NORR-ij (/ˈnɒrɪdʒ/). Everyone pronounces the -wich the same way as Greenwich/Harwich; as an -itch (ɪtʃ/) sound. Most definitely the correct way of pronouncing Norwich is NORR-itch (/ˈnɒrɪtʃ/). OLLSZCZ (talk) 07:11, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Would it be helpful if I mentioned that I pronounce those two 'Grenidge' and 'Harridge'? GraemeLeggett (talk) 11:31, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

The BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names gives the "-idge" pronunciation first for all three of Greenwich, Harwich, and Norwich. DuncanHill (talk) 16:51, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

As it happens I came across an older film of a posh person saying "Norwich". A lot. 'A place in history' presented by John Julius Norwich, Viscount Norwich takes a look around the historic city of Norwich. GraemeLeggett (talk) 07:24, 10 August 2024 (UTC)