List of names in English with non-intuitive pronunciations
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- Caius (as in Caius College, Cambridge), pronounced "keys" SAMPA /ki:z/
- Cholmondeley, pronounced "chumley" /"tSVmli:/
- Cosham (Hampshire town), pronounced "koss'm" /"kQs@m/
- Edinburgh (Scottish capital city), pronounced "edinbrer" in British English /"EdInbr@/.
- Featherstonehaugh, pronounced "fanshaw" /"f{nSO:/
- Frome (UK town), pronounced "froom" /fru:m/
- Honiton (UK town), pronounced "hunniton" /"hVnIt@n/
- Kirkcudbrightshire (former Scottish county), pronounced "Kirkoobreeshir" /kIr"kubrIS3/
- Leicester (UK city), pronounced "lester" /"lEst@/
- Leominster (UK town), pronounced "lemster" /"lEmst@/
- Magdalen (as in Magdalen College, Oxford), pronounced "maudlin" /"mO:dlIn/
- Woolfhardisworthy, pronounced "woolsey" /"wUlzi:/
- Dalziel, pronounced "dee-ell" /di:"El/ or /di:"jEl/ (as in the U.K. television series Dalziel and Pascoe)
- Marjoribanks, pronounced "marchbanks" /"mA:tSb{Nks/
- Slough (Berkshire town), pronounced to rhyme with "cow" /slaU/
- Worcester (UK city), pronounced "wooster" /"wUst@/. See also: Worcester, Massachusetts, which has a subtly different, but still non-intuitive, pronunciation. Compare Wooster, Ohio.
- Berlin, Ohio, pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable: "BUR-lin" /"bUrlIn/.
- Taliaferro and English spelling
