Can you beat 'yacht'...

[AndyRM]

Don't worry, people in Newcastle don't know what a bath is.

True, we prefer showers to wallowing in our own filth.

 

[TVC]

Loughborough, which can be pronounced low-brow if you follow certain rules.

 

[Vidor06]

Hyperbole was one that got me the first time I saw it written down. I thought surely its pronounced hyper bowl. But no it hi-per-bow-lee.
Im just back from holidays in Northumberland where @Fnaar warned me how the locals pronounced Bellingham. They say Bellinjum and in the pub locals had a right laugh at non locals calling it Bellingham.
How on earth is St John pronounced SinJin?

 

[Brandane]

Scotland:
Milgavie, and Glamis, but there again, its a foreign country.

It's MilNgavie, pronounced Mull-guy, or Mill-guy if yer posh!
Then there's Kirkcudbright. Pronounced

Spoiler

Kir-coo-bray

.

 

[AndyRM]

It's MilNgavie, pronounced Mull-guy, or Mill-guy if yer posh!
Then there's Kirkcudbright. Pronounced

Spoiler

Kir-coo-bray

.

On an early date with SophRM we went to the National Museum in Edinburgh, and there was a display about Kirkcudbrightshire.

As she is a sassenach I challenged her to pronounce it, gleefully awaiting the inevitable mangled pronunciation.

I was gutted when she nailed it.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

Eight

 

[raleighnut]

Having had all the local ones done (Leicester, Loughborough and Belvoir) can I offer up Stiffkey in Norfolk pronounced Stewky by the locals.

 

[ianrauk]

Stiffkey in Norfolk pronounced Stewky by the locals.

That's a good one...

 

[Profpointy]

Don't worry, people in Newcastle don't know what a bath is.

Course they do. It's where they keep the coal

 

[Profpointy]

Hopefully not done already, but here's a mis-spelling of a common word

"ghoti"

....and the correct spelling is....














"fish"

"gh" from "tough"
"o" from "women"
"ti" from "station"

 

[Markymark]

Course they do. It's where they keep the coal

Interesting. Newcastle likes coal. Must be a gap in the market for someone as business savvy as me to sell coal to Newcastle.

 

[Fnaar]

Hopefully not done already, but here's a mis-spelling of a common word

"ghoti"

....and the correct spelling is....

"fish"

"gh" from "tough"
"o" -can't remember !
"ti" from "station"

'o' from 'women'.
George Bernard Shaw (disputed, though usually attributed to him)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

 

[steveindenmark]

Hull

If you are from there the H is silent. As in Hessle Road.

 

[Profpointy]

'o' from 'women'.
George Bernard Shaw (disputed, though usually attributed to him)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

just found and edited but you beat me to it.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Hopefully not done already, but here's a mis-spelling of a common word

"ghoti"

....and the correct spelling is....














"fish"

"gh" from "tough"
"o" from "women"
"ti" from "station"

*GROAN!*