List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom information
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Colney COney Hatch
De Beauvoir BEAver Town (usu.)
Marylebone MARlyb'n (alt.)
Plaistow PLAHsto
Ruislip RYslip
Greenwich GRENidge
Southwark SU-ðərK
Vauxhall VOK-sawl
Dulwich DULLidge
Chiswick CHIZick
Isleworth Ayezəlworth
Thamesmead TEMZmead
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A map of irregularly spelled places in London
This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names.
These common suffixes have these regular pronunciations, yet would be counterintuitive (irregular) in normal English. This means that their modern pronunciation might be regarded as counter-intuitive to their spelling, which is not counterintuitive as it is historic, regular, well-established, and etymologically consistent.
-b(o)rough and -burgh – /bərə/
-bury – /bri/
-cester – /stər/[n 1]
-combe, -coombe, -comb and -cambe – /kəm/. When stand-alone: always /kuːm/ (including in place names such as Castle Combe and Coombe Bissett)
-ford – /fərd/
-gh – silent (usually as 'f' in a considerable minority of northern English place names and in Woughton, Milton Keynes)
-ham – /əm/
-holm(e) – /hoʊm/, /əm/
-mouth – /məθ/
-shire – /ʃər/, /ʃɪər/, /ʃaɪər/ (esp. in Scotland)
-wich - /ɪtʃ/, /ɪdʒ/[n 2]
-wick – /ɪk/[n 3][n 4]
Prefixes:
Al- – /ˈɒl/, /ˈɔːl/; with very few exceptions such as Alba, Alperton.
Saint- – /sənt/, for most speakers.
Other:
-on- – /ˈʌn/ as first syllable is usually as in London, Coningsby or Tonbridge (see Middle English handwriting preventing 'un' and 'um'); excludes a few such as Lonsdale
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