Can you beat 'yacht'...

[Beebo]

Greenwich.
Try giving tourists directions to Green-wich.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yes but even when you do, northerners can't afford to go to the places we hang out.

It's not that we can't afford it, it is just we try to avoid the debauched squallor of certain places.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Greenwich.
Try giving tourists directions to Green-wich.

Hawick is a bit like that.

It is pronounced

'Hoik'

By the way.

 

[Levo-Lon]

There's no H in Hull

 

[MontyVeda]

I'll nominate phlegm. Often used but seldom seen written down. WTF

 

[Levo-Lon]

Americans call Leicester lie sester

 

[AndyRM]

Wymondham.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Yacht comes from the Scandinavian "Jacht" meaning fast ship. Pronounced the same way - yawt.

Umm, I'm not making this better am I?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Kilconquar = Kinnuchar.
Fraserburgh = the Broch.

 

[Bazzer]

Queue

Surely a single letter, or at best 2?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Kilconquar = Kinnuchar.
Fraserburgh = the Broch.

Balquidder = Balwhidder

 

[Venod]

hole, pronounced oil where I live, as in, dig us an oil to put this plant in.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

There's no r in bath, somebody's having a laf.

Another is 'Bach'

If you English don't already mess it up by saying

'Back'

Then with the 'r', is sounds like

'Bark'


I hate to break this to you, but Beethoven* was a dog, not Bach.

* - And there is another odd spelling, but at least it is German.

 

[ianrauk]

Horsmonden in Kent.
Pronounced Horz-menden

 

[BrumJim]

In Leicestershire:
Belvoir Castle. Pronounced Beaver.