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Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names. These common suffixes have the following regular pronunciations, which are historic, well established and etymologically consistent. However, they may be counterintuitive, as their pronunciation is inconsistent with the usual phonetics of English. -b(o)rough and -burgh – / b ər ə /
Name of multiple places New Berlin: New BUR-lin / ˈ b ɜːr l ɪ n / Name of multiple places New Orleans: new OR-linz / n j uː ˈ ɔːr l ɪ n z / [n 27] New Madrid, Missouri: New MAD-rid / ˈ m æ d r ɪ d / New Prague, Minnesota: New PRAYG / ˈ p r eɪ ɡ / New Tripoli, Pennsylvania: New trih-POH-lee / t r ɪ ˈ p oʊ l i / Noel, Missouri ...
Whether the usual modern pronunciation is intuitive depends on your POV. Since / stə / not / ˌsɛstə / is the usual pronunciation of "cester" in English place names, I'm inclined that to the initiated, an intuitive pronunciation would be / ˈsaɪrənstə /, or maybe / ˈsɪrənstə / or / sɪˈrɛnstə /. OTOH, to the uninitiated, the way it ...
The boy’s name Oisín and the girl’s name Róisín are Ush-een and Rush-een in most parts of the country, but O-sheen and Ro-sheen in others. When a fada appears over an i at the end of a name ...
On the other hand, this is a "List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations", and people might not consider Dún Laoghaire and Beinn Bhreagh to be names in English. +An gr 10:38, 15 March 2010 (UTC) English is a mongrel language with global scope.
Let's be honest: Some words are really hard to pronounce. So some Redditors set out to determine the most difficult words to pronounce in the English language. You ready? After more than 5,000 ...
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