Back to Worcestershire and other difficult pronunciations. I have a friend who was once enjoying a pint outside a Yorkshire village pub. A helicopter descended and landed on the cricket pitch!!! Sacred Soil!!! A man got out and demanded to know where "Harogatty" was. My friend taken aback as you may expect, denied all knowledge until the man showed him a map pointing to Harrogate, (pronounced "Harragut")by locals and "Harrow-gate" by more run of the mill tourists. He managed an inarticulate, yokel-like wave in the direction required and the helicopter and man departed.