List Of Irregularly Spelled Places In The United Kingdom
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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: * -b(o)rough and -burgh – * -bury – * -cester – * -combe, -coombe, -comb and -cambe – . When stand-alone: always (including in place names such as Castle Combe and Coombe Bissett) * -ford – * -gh – silent (usually as 'f' in a considerable minority of northern English place names and in Woughton, Milton Keynes) * -ham – * -holm(e) – , * -mouth – * -shire – , , (esp. in Scotland) * -wich - , * -wick – Prefixes: * Al- – , ; with very few exceptions such as Alba, Alperton. * Saint- – , for most speakers. Other: * -on- – 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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* {{cite book, editor=G. M. Miller , year=1971, title=BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names, publisher= Oxford University Press, isbn=0-19-431125-2 Irregularly spelled England Irregularly spelled