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I love Leicester Square in London which is pronounced Lester square.
by christkv 5y ago
I love Leicester Square in London which is pronounced Lester square.
- Symbiote 5y agoLeicester (the city, not the square in London named for it) is just south of the town of Loughborough. Leicestershire in general has more than its fair share of difficult placenames: Ashby de la Zouch, South Croxton, Kirby Bellars, Belvoir, Rotherby vs Rothley, Frisby on the Wreake, Nether Broughton, Kibworth Beauchamp, Glooston* (not sure of this one myself), Wymeswold. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/52.7457/-1.0495 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/52.7457/-1.0495
- Chris2048 5y agoInteresting fact: There was a running joke in PC Gamer (UK) about how odd/terrible Loughborough is..
- christkv 5y agoI have to say the biggest challenge I had was hiking in wales in Snowdonia and trying to inquire about town and village names. I ended up writing them down to show because I butchered the names no matter how much I tried.
- Symbiote 5y agoWelsh is a completely different language, with its own writing system. dd → th, ff → f, ll → hl (ish), w → oo gets you most of the way to being understood as a tourist, in my experience. (Though I'm British, so I've heard many of the larger Welsh place names pronounced properly since childhood, via TV/radio etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_orthography#Letter_names_and_sound_values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_orthography#Letter_names...
- quercusa 5y agoHow many syllables are pronounced in 'Loughborough'?
- Grustaf 5y agoAll three, but the last two are schwas: /ˈlʌfbərə/