Worcester, my nearest city is pronounced "Wusser", in the local dialect, and the nearest market town Evesham is pronounced "Aysum". My village Naunton Beauchamp; "Norton Beecham"

How about the incorrect way those Yankees in New York pronounce HOUSTON? They say "House" ton, as in what most people live,
not H "you" ston as in the city where the coolest Americans live.
(well, coolest as long as the AC is working.)

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is pronounced.........ohh I can't be arsed

Port Fourchon in Louisiana is pronounced FooshOn

I live in a town in central Florida that is spelled OVIEDO. Now, this town was named after a small city in Spain. So it's supposed to be pronounced , OH-VEE-AH-DO. But, much to the consternation of my wife, who speaks Spanish, everyone calls it, OH-VEEE-DO. Drives her crazy.
In New York City there is a Houston Street. But New Yorkers don't pronounce it, YOU-STON, like the city in Texas. They say, HOUSE-TON.

I remember once I was going to Loughborough university in the UK for a convention.

I think the BritRail attendant at the ticket kiosk at Standsted was laughing his ass off as I tried to pronounce it as it was spelt
I ended up taking the train to London, then visit a News Agent stall, finding a map of the UK, and writing down the name and showing the note to the next ticket stall I went to.

Lost 2 hours, but got there in the end

The next town along the road from me is Gartochran pronounced as Gart oh Harran

And in the Miller adverts Auchtermuchty is pronounced as "Wear the fox hat"

Here's a couple from Western MA:

Amherst is usually pronounced without the "h" by the local population. i.e. Amerst

Also, Holyoke usually loses the "l" in the mouths of locals: Hoyoke

I'm stunned that any Scots at all actually bought and consumed Miller beer!!! I'd like to apologize for my country exporting that crap to you guys.

Contoocook NH is pronounced con-too’-cook’, but locals often pronounce it con-took’-it’. A nearby town named Boscawen sounds more like Bos’-c’w’n, with the “a” & “e” pronounced very quickly, but you’ll often hear locals say it as Bos’-c’-wine.

There are so many towns in MA that are like that

That's kind of an odd video title since um...people who live in MA are also Americans! It should have been something like "Southerners try to pronounce MA towns" or something like that.

And BD just won the thread.



Not a place, but people here say the letter H not as eytch but as hetch, like hatch but with an e. I wonder if that's the same in other places in the UK?

Sugar Tit, South Carolina is pronounced Sugar Tit, South Carolina.

The only Millers I have drank was supplied, free of charge, by the US Navy, but they made up for it by also supplying a bottle of Bacardi Gold 151 to wash it down with

Seriously tho, the USN at NAVCOMMSTA Forss supplied 3 cases of various beers* for our American Football team when we went off to our first away match which we won by the way

We had a great relationship with the base and the commander encouraged us to come and use the base's facilities, admittedly I had a good friend in the retired commander from the base who had put in a good word for us.

* Miller Draught, Molson Golden, and Red Stripe.

USN article about being stationed at the base
http://navy-radio.com/commsta/thurso-ah-7202.pdf

I grew up in East Sussex and moved just across the border to Kent later and both sides of the border pronounce H with definate and hard A as in "Aytch". Occasionally you hear people prefix it with a very soft "h" that becomes "h-Aytch", but most people around here consider that incorrect. I worked in an office in London until recently and sat next to a Kiwi that always pronounced it as "h-aytch". You would hear a chorus of Brits, (good naturedly), trying to re-educate him.

Hey, now, don't disparage the Champagne of Beers! It's my favorite.

Cairo, IL is pronounced "KAY-ro."

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something that makes me cringe every time is : Eye-rack and Eye-ran

this is how it is pronounced

Iraq :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/En-us-Iraq.ogg

Iran
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Fa-ir-Iran.ogg

Assuming you're not kidding...me too!

Now that I think about it, I haven't had a drink since December. I could go for a Miller High Life right about now.