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MajorHavoc ,

Nice. There's lots of areas I've lived where the locals drop specific consonants from the names of places. So anyone who actually pronounces the place name "correctly" is immediately recognized as new to town.

Hamartiogonic ,
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I can only think if Toron(t)o. Never really thought about other towns doing the same thing.

lastunusedusername2 ,

Vangcouver. =]
Also every city in Australia.

Yearly1845 ,

Melb'n

Kernal64 ,

When I hear someone from that city say their city's name, it sounds like it should be spelled "Trono."

CDenno ,

Shibboleths are amazing! Calgary is almost universally pronounced "Cal-Gary" by non-locals, locals say "Calgree"

Kernal64 ,

I'm gonna have to disagree with you. Have you ever seen a Shoggoth? They're horrific and just because they're protoplasmic beings doesn't mean their mispronunciation of English should be celebrated.

Zagorath ,
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Like the other reply said, it's all over the place in Australia. You can easily tell a tourist—especially an American tourist—because they'll say "can-bair-a" instead of "can-bruh".

It's not unusual in the UK, too. Worcester is Wost-er, Magdalen(e) is mawd-lin, and Leicester is lester.

Hamartiogonic ,
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OMG, that makes it so much worse. If someone tells you about a specific place, and you want to look it up later, you have absolutely zero chance of ever spelling it correctly. Good luck typing lester or woster in Wikipedia or Maps.

Zagorath ,
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As it happens, that worked just fine:

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/d72c1bfe-aa4b-4b64-b408-c65ded5df617.png

Worcester is famous even outside the UK because of Worcestershire sauce (pronounced "woster-shuh" sauce), the condiment named after the region. And because the name is on the bottle, it's easy for people to remember.

ChexMax ,

We have a Bradenton nearby which gets shortened to branton (pronounced like brain-nton). Gotta have the long A or else you'll accidently send someone half an hour away to Brandon.

Hamartiogonic ,
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Oh that’s just great. Two similar place names like that, and they also happen to be relatively close to each other. I can see how that could cause some confusion.

Similarly, Kuhmo and Kuhmoinen (both in Finland) are about 446 km apart, but you can easily avoid the confusion as long as you know roughly which part of the country you’re talking about.

There’s also Helsingborg (town in Sweden) and Helsinfors (swedish name for the capital of Finland). What could go wrong.

ZDL ,
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Surely you mean "Trahnah"?

kender242 ,
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Oregonian checking in here.

Voyajer ,
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Louisville becomes Luhvul

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