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The UK boasts some of the most beautiful scenery, towns and villages in the world but they aren’t always the easiest for tourists to pronounce.
From Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire to Omagh in Northern Ireland, each corner of the UK has at least one unique town tongue twister.
UK’s most mispronounced towns and villages
There’s almost nothing more embarrassing than mispronouncing the tricky place name to a Taxi driver, a colleague – or worse, a local.
So that you’re always prepared, the language experts at Preply have conducted a study to reveal the most mispronounced UK place names.
Plus, the team has gone one step further by explaining exactly how to pronounce each so that you can avoid any tricky pronunciation predicaments.
The study follows another analysis from Preply on the longest words in the English dictionary – how many do you know? Do you know what they mean?
Here are the UK’s most mispronounced place names:
Cholmondeley (Cheshire)
Many people try to pronounce this civil parish in Cheshire as Chol-mon-de-lee. However, this is incorrect.
Chum-lee is the right way to say this village with a total population of a little over a hundred.
Bicester (Oxfordshire)
Bicester is a town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in Southern England, but the pronunciation of the place has been a struggle for some time.
Many pronounce it as By-cester, but this is incorrect!
The correct way to say this town is Bi-stuh – who’d have guessed?
Frome (Somerset)
Frome, a town in eastern Somerset is thought to have derived from the ancient Brythonic word “ffraw”, meaning fair, fine or brisk, and described the flow of the river that runs through the town!
So, no, it’s not pronounced from, but in fact pronounced froom!
Godmanchester (Cambridgeshire)
One of the main things that confused people is how similar Godmanchester looks to the city…
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