Strangely Pronounced Place Names

I think someone's been winding you up.

dorset street in dublin is pronouced door-SET but i thought that this was the only place in the world this happened.

Druid Hill Park in Baltimore is pronounced Droodle Park. There is a lovely town northeast of there called Havre de Grace, pronounced Haverr duh Grayce. Taliaferro as Tolliver is fairly common throughout Maryland and Virginia.

being one of said locals (lived there first 20 odd years of my life) i can confirm this 8)

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Damm those tricky French.

My favorite was Robbie Street in Halifax, pronounce it like the name and no one will know what your talking about since to them its always been ROWbe threet.

Plaistow - PLAH-stow
Highgate - High-gt (with the schwa as in Harrogate rather than the "ei" in Moorgate, Aldgate, or even Watergate)
Holborn - HOE-bn
Marylebone - Marlybone

And as a TEFLer, I take evil pleasure in hearing students and tourists confused by "Tott-num" Court Road and "Lester" Square !

Some places in Northern Ireland -

Lough Neagh = Lock Nay Biggest lake in the British Isles, fact fans.
Doagh = Doke
Coalisland = Cull-EYE-lun to the locals
Armagh = Arr-MAH
Omagh = OH-ma
Castlereagh = cassel-RAY
Ballymoney = BALLAH-money
Ballymena = BALLAH-meena

BUT

Ballyclare = BALLEE-clare