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So true. I always wondered why is Leicester pronounced as "lester" and not as "laichester".
by miroljub 1y ago
So true. I always wondered why is Leicester pronounced as "lester" and not as "laichester".
- darkwater 1y agoGrenich anyone?
- sph 1y agoSoderk (Southwark), Marlibon (Marylebone), Reding (Reading), Bister (Bicester), Sozbery (Salisbury), Frum (Frome), Worick (Warwick), Noridge (Norwich), Darby (Derby), and the various Gloster, Lester, Wooster
- darkwater 1y agoYeah but Greenwich is a place known world-wide, and I guess a high percentage of people mispronounce it (I was one of them).
- miroljub 1y agoIt's known worldwide, but many people never heard an actual Britt pronouncing it. In my country, it was always pronounced as green-each. Only in this thread I realised it's written Green-wich and pronounced gren-each. And I'm pretty sure I'll forget it quickly and just keep calling it green-each.
- whiteandnerdy 1y agoIt's more like gren-itch than gren-each (native UK speaker).
- amiga386 1y ago... Hoyk (Hawick), Kircoodbree (Kirkcudbright), Mullguy (Milngavie), Cooriss (Culross), Geeree (Garioch), Eyela (Islay) However, some Americans even have trouble with Glasgow (Glaz-go, not Glass-gow) and Edinburgh (Ed-in-burra, not Edin-bro)
- 18172828286177 1y agoEdinburgh is morr commonly pronounced “edinbruh”.
- amiga386 1y agoGlasgow and Edinburgh are pronounced "Glesca" and "Embra" by their natives but I wouldn't recommend it to others. I've heard some Americans pronounce it "Edin-bo-ro" which is entirely off.
- 18172828286177 1y agoSouthwark is “suh-thuk”. Salisbury “sorlsbry”. Norwich “norrich”.
- sph 1y agoYeah trying to map English sounds to Latin letters is the exact problem. It's a very lossy transformation.
- vikingerik 1y agoBecause the components are Leice-ster, not Lei-cester. Same for Glouce-ster, Worce-ster etc. A very refined pronunciation might emit both "s" sounds, but colloquially they get smooshed together into one.