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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
english place names are as bad as surnames (and the same word can frequently be both). i still remember the day i realised bertie wooster's last name was probably a joke on one of those upper-class names like "worcester" (which apparently is pronounced the way wooster is spelled, if i've understood correctly...  ). it was the forehead slap heard round the world.  |
Yep, but the U.S. can be just as bad - I spent the first twenty years of my life pronouncing Arkansas the way it is written.