Funny names - you got any?

mikefromwestyorkshireMember

Just thinking aloud here....
With Paul (Camera) mentioning the pronunciation of a Welsh village name, I thought that there are many English and Scottish place names that folk from other parts of the world (or our local TV newsreaders) find difficult to pronounce correctly.

Places like:
Mytholmroyd and Slaithwaite, both in my county.
Cowbit, Cholmondeley, Mossley and Dukinfield elsewhere in England.
In Scotland there are Milngavie, Culross and Wemyss Bay.

Also surnames like:
Cockburn
Leveson-Gower
Featherstonehaugh.

I have not noticed such things in the USA or the Antipodes, apart from the obvious ones like Houston and Arkansas - are there others?

4/12/065:41 AM

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