A couple more...

Hunstanton

Keswick


BeforeI go, any takers for these?

Pishill

Penistone. (Already featured in another recent thread).

Alnwick

Hmmm. Ok, I'll have a bash at a couple of the ones from your way:

Deeli Sarn, mulan, loan.

I already know Tintwistle - so I'll let someone else guess that one.

Ecellent thread.

As the website quoted doesn't give answers that I could see, I'll give a few tries:

Auchinleck - o-kin-LI
Barnoldswick - BARN-sik
Berkeley - BARK-li
Bicester - BIS-ter
Birmingham - BRUM-a-jem ;)

yeah, I can't trype.

you gotta pinch your nose when you say it, though

Spot on :) Though some pronounce it burk-li

Close - OKH in Lek -

Some pronounce it Barnolsick - but most and especially the locals - Barlick

*grins*

Ya'd think since w call 'em Brummies

BUR mingum (tho burmingm really, as that last syllable is thrown away) - the local accent usually renders that BER mingum

Dani brumajem is a local name, but not used so much these days since outsiders picked up on it. Sorry I missed your guesses at mine, mulan was the only one that was close

Ha! Goes to show. Most people in the UK don't know how to pronounce names on the other side ofthe hill :p

It's like Sowerby, near me. I assumed, and if you look at a pronunciation guide it will tell you that it is pronounced SOW-er-bi

But call it that and you're instantly marked as a tourist :p Because locals all pronounce it SAW-bi

I had a boyfriend there who was brummie born and bred and used it disparagingly. Only the grandparent generation used it naturally and they're probably all gone now.

So, why do you guys even have an alphabet? :lol:

re Birmingham, my information was that paste jewelry/gems (or by proxy anything fake) is called brummagem because Birmingham was a centre for its procduction. True?

a few more guesses:

Cambois - KAM-bis (by any who don't pronounce it as French?)
Cholmondeley - cholm-LI (I always wondered about that one)
Cirencester - SAI-ren-ster
Cogenhoe - COE-NOE
Culross - (has me stumped)
Harwarden - HAR-den
Kilconquhar - KIL-war
Leicester - LES-ter
Loughborough - LOU-ba-ra

Edinburgh, Shrewsbury, Keswick: been there, so I leave those to someone else.

I live in Ilakdieanngelkieooytha. We pronounce it "oh-HI-oh"

I once visited Ahtyooeiklegnnaeidkali. They pronounce it "OH-hi-OH"

Shouldn't that be "HO-ih-HO", then?