Can you beat 'yacht'...

[Mr Celine]

Hawick is a bit like that.

It is pronounced

'Hoik'

By the way.

But no tourists would want to go to Hawick.

 

[marknotgeorge]

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

The computer-generated voice on the satnav of my phone once pronounced Loughborough three different ways on the same journey.

 

[raleighnut]

The computer-generated voice on the satnav of my phone once pronounced Loughborough three different ways on the same journey.

All wrongly?

 

[marknotgeorge]

All wrongly?

Yup

 

[Fnaar]

Buccleuch


sorry, just clearing my throat

 

[Oldbloke]

The name Menzies pronounced Mingis.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

But no tourists would want to go to Hawick.

They will if they extend the railway further, and anyway, there are things like the Rugby, the Common Riding and other things, so I don't see why not.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Alnwick

Annick!

That's my answer, not a correction.

 

[swee'pea99]

These place names remind me of getting lost in the backroads of Norfolk and asking a passer-by if they knew the way to 'Happys-burg' (Happisburgh). They looked baffled for a bit, then said cheerfully "Oh - you mean Haresbrer."

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Queenzieburn - Queen'ieburn

That 'z' also turns up in things like

'Dalzeil', or 'Dee'ell, as in Dee'ell and Pascoe.


Seemingly the 'z' is a.... One of those, I can't remeber the name off hand... A Glottal stop?

 

[Bazzer]

Bough

ough become ow, but but if you mean to bend at the waist, then there is a separate word for that
ough become ort when in bought
ough become uf in Boughey

 

[subaqua]

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

coals are still in the bath aren't they

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I once turned up at the Ferry port in Holyhead and asked for a return ticket to Done Leo Gare



Dun Laoghaire

Dun Lagohair, or Dun Lagonair as I misread it.


It's 'Dun Leery' of course.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Drogheda was another one that got me at first.

I should have known the 'gh' was a Galic 'ch' sound......

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Particularly those oiks who add in extra letters....

I said I misread it