Weird pronunciations

[DanaC]

I know we've talked about this before, but I couldn't find the thread!

So -anyway - some names, of people and of places, defy the uninitiated with their weird and wonderful pronunciations. So, I found this list of British place names and thought I'd throw it out to youse guys.

Many ofthese I did not know how to pronounce properly. Some of them have a distinct local pronunciation that differs from the national pronunciation. Some of them you'd hae to either live nearby or have heard them on the news to have the first clue :P

So, how would you pronounce these place names?

Auchinleck
Barnoldswick
Berkeley
Bicester
Birmingham
Cambois (people outside Northumberland actually refuse to believe that it isn't pronounced "camb-bwah")
Cholmondeley
Cirencester (in fact, any name ending in -cester.)
Cogenhoe
Culross
Edinburgh
Harwarden
Kilconquhar
Leicester
Loughborough
Shrewsbury
Stiffkey
Slaithwaite
Towcester
Warwick
Woolfardisworthy
Worcester (or even better, Worcestershire)
Wymondham


From http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fun:British_English

Can we have some odd place names from over the pond too?