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Old 02-09-2016, 01:17 AM   #142
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Found something lovely on Wikipedia:

A "List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations"

With several sub-links to individual lists. Although I just browsed the English place names lists a bit, and don't think everything on them is counterintuitive.

But I've already come up with a question for our British friends: The list gives the pronunciation of Alnwick as /ˈænɪk/, but I've been there and am pretty sure the locals say /ˈᴧnɪk/. Does anybody really say /ˈænɪk/?
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