Milngavie. John
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Launceston. We pronounce the Oz town's name differently to the UK. Ron B. VK2OTC
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Gillingham and Gillingham can cause problems if you are stood on london bridge train platform as trains go to both from there

Lost for Words wrote:

Oh, yes, our place names are excellent at confusing non-natives:

Cholmondeley
Beauchaump
Gloucester, Worcester, Leicester
Peterborough, Middlesbrough, Edinburgh
Gillingham and Gillingham
Alnwick
Luxulyan
Bishops Lydeard
Fowey
Beaulieu
Holborn
Kirkcaldy

Teignmouth and the River Teign.

Not to mention all the welsh ones - Llanelli, Dolgellau et al

I feel extremely lucky to have English as my mother tongue.

My all time favourite is Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast.
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maybe the people living there didn't think happyburg was posh enough sounding?

Reminds me of keeping up appearances with Mrs Bucket who pronounced it bouquet!

Like when I used to live in Hedon (pronounced Heddon) they built a cul-de-sac of houses on the west side of the village, after a couple of years that little bit suddenly got named South Preston! Erm Preston is a few miles away and these houses are firmly attached to Hedon, how can you change the name of a single estate of 10 houses? haha. Dan

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Ivor wrote:

Gillingham and Gillingham can cause problems if you are stood on london bridge train platform as trains go to both from there

Not any that I know of? To my knowledge, there's no station with services to both the Dorset and Kent Gillinghams.  Visiting from DISCO3.CO.UK
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DannyH wrote:

little bit suddenly got named South Preston! Erm Preston is a few miles away and these houses are firmly attached to Hedon, how can you change the name of a single estate of 10 houses? haha.