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British pronunciation for certain words leaves a lot to be desired. Americans visiting would be hard pressed to pronounce these words right the first time.  
This page is for some of the words and locations that aren't pronounced anything like how they look (usually place names).
As this section is 'new' there are only a small selection of words at the moment. Additional suggestions welcomed via the guestbook.

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British word Pronounced like
Bournemouth bornmuth
clerk clark
controversy con-trovasy
Derby darby
Derbyshire darbeshure
garage garij (like 'carriage' with a G)
Gloucester gloster
Gloucestershire glostashur
Leicester lester
Leicestershire lestashur
Worcester wuuster
'shire (as a county ending) shure, sheer (not 'shire' !)
Belvoir Beaver !
Berkshire Barkshure
Birmingham Birminum
Bromwich Bromitch
Warwick Worick
Middlesborough Middlesbru
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

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