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Thread #157196 Message #3708612
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
13-May-15 - 05:22 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Local place names - local pronunciation
Subject: RE: Folklore: Local place names - local pronunciation
Belvoir in Rutland (Belvoir Castle, Belvoir Hunt etc.) is correctly pronounced Beaver.
I imagine that most places were once pronounced as spelled.
I bet that Laucestons in US, mentioned earlier, are pronounced as they were here at the time of their founding and probably as spelled.
Foreign names used to be always mispronounced in English as spelled, eg Paris.
Cairo, mentioned earlier, follows that pattern and features in a Dillon Bustin song.
Chile is rhymed with while in the Amphrotite song.