Before I heard it being said I kept pronouncing the surname “Mangione” as “Man-jee-own” rather than “man-jo-nee” and I’m still ashamed about it lol I’m sorry

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    All English town names, by spite and ignorance but mostly spite.

    Oh, I am not pronounching “Glouchestershire” correctly? SPELL it correctly then!

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      When I was on vacation with my father in Scotland we wanted to see the highland games in Glenisla. We needed directions or needed to know the exact date when they’d take place or so, so we went to some tourist information. That poor girl there had no idea what we wanted when we asked about glennis-law. But she soon figured out that we meant glen-ila.

      The highland games were awesome, btw!

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      There was a YouTube video I watch ages ago and it explained it pretty well.

      The differences depends on who settled the town. Roman, Saxon, or Viking

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      I have American friends who couldn’t pronounce it. it was always some variant of “Glow-kester-sheer” but tbh I can’t blame them, the spelling doesn’t do the pronunciation justice 😂

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        I think I’m supposed to say “gl” and then the vocal equivalent of “asdfasdfasdf”

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        Start intentionally pronouncing “Pittsburgh” with the -burgh suffix from Edinburgh or Musselburgh to get them back