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Originally Posted by HarryT
Some people do say "ah-nik" ("ah" as in "cart") rather than "a-nik", but I think "a-nik" is more common. The important point is that the "l" and the "w" are silent.
There are lots of place names ending in "-wick", which in Anglo Saxon meant "a place where goods are traded", and the "w" is almost always silent, so "Warwick" is pronounced "Worrik", "Chiswick" is pronounced "Chizik", and so on. It's the same word as "vik" in "viking", as a matter of interest: vikings were (originally at least) people who traded.
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Do you happen to know if the -wich in Norwich and Ipswich has the same root?