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Chelsea Ancelotti I Villas-Boas P Di Matteo I Benítez S Mourinho P Hiddink N Conte I
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Manchester City Mancini I Pellegrini C Guardiola S
Liverpool Hodgson E Dalglish Sc Rodgers NI Klopp G
Manchester United Ferguson Sc Moyes Sc van Gaal N Mourinho P
Everton Moyes Sc Martínez S Koeman N
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Pronunciations for the following common suffixes are regular pronunciations, despite being counterintuitive at first glance:

Pronunciation of the following common prefix is variable depending on dialect:

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Colney COney Hatch
 
De Beauvoir BEAver Town (usu.)
 
Marylebone MARlyb'n (alt.)
 
Plaistow PLAHsto
 
Ruislip RYslip
 
Greenwich GRENidge
 
Southwark SU-ðərK
 
Vauxhall VOK-sawl
 
Dulwich DULLidge
 
Chiswick CHIZick
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This is a sublist of List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations.

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Norwich is a cathedral city of more than 140,000 people and the county town of Norfolk which has more than 850,000 inhabitants.

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Sandwich has been immortalized as a near-universal food item but in the same way as a series of small towns in Cheshire breaks the usually ignored (elided) w of -wich.
 
Southwell Minster is a cathedral in England, unusually in a village. Its diocese serves Nottinghamshire. County towns Salisbury (as in Salisbury Cathedral and Lord Salisbury, multiple-term Prime Minister) and Shrewsbury, with its public school and retained early medieval Abbey church (through the English Reformation under the Tudor period) fall in this list always and as to one variant respectively.

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The name of the diminished market town of Dorchester on Thames indicates its founding in Roman Britain. It occupies the land projecting at the confluence of the rivers Thames and Thame which are elisions of the Roman name for the main river and as with the town of Thame take their t sound from the Tamesis. All have phonetically shifted away from a short 'a' each to a different longer different vowel in the case of the main river: /tɛmz/ ⓘ.
 
Theobald's Road in London.

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Worcester is a cathedral city of more than 100,000 people and the county town of Worcestershire which has more than 550,000 inhabitants.

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  1. ^ e.g. City of Leicester which follows e.g. Towcester, Rocester and Alcester – /ˈɒlstər/ or /ˈɔːlstər/
  2. ^ Well-known, large examples are Woolwich and West Bromwich cf. Nantwich and Droitwich Spa
  3. ^ e.g. Smethwick, Chiswick and Flitwick
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo Wells, John C. (2000). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. 2nd ed. Longman. ISBN 0-582-36468-X.
  5. ^ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Bristol_and_Somerset/2000-01/0949053929
  6. ^ Reflecting original "Beldesert" "Beaudesert and Henley-in-Arden Website | Warwickshire | Our Town|History|". Henley-in-Arden. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  7. ^ Bill Bryson (1 September 1991). The Mother Tongue. HarperCollins. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-380-71543-5.
  8. ^ In south Oxfordshire; pronunciation varies in north Oxfordshire, see BBC Oxford How do you pronounce Cherwell?
  9. ^ Wells, John (6 May 2010). "Chideock". John Wells's phoetic blog. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
  10. ^ "Chop Gate". yorkshiremoors.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  11. ^ "History of Cowbit - Cowbit Village". cowbitvillage.co.uk. 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 3 April 2014 suggested (help)
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Pronouncing British Placenames at BBC's Edited Guide Entry h2g2 site
  13. ^ Lycett Green, Candida. Unwrecked England. Oldie. p. 30.
  14. ^ Pointon, G.E. (1983). BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-212976-7.
  15. ^ "Oliver Cromwell's home; fields amid which his boyhood was passed. Villages in the neighborhood- where other great men were born-the boy Oliver saved". nY Times. 30 December 1888. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  16. ^ (as in Greenwich Mean Time and as in the US namesakes) or the more old-fashioned /ɡrɪnɪtʃ/
  17. ^ Roach & Hartman, eds (1997) English Pronouncing Dictionary, 15th edition. (Cambridge University Press). p. 234
  18. ^ Mildenhall audio pronunciation
  19. ^ Olney Town Council Official Guide
  20. ^ a b Sangster, Catherine; Olausson, Lena (2006). Oxford BBC guide to pronunciation. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 300. ISBN 0-19-280710-2. This is correct for the Plaistows in London and West Sussex.
  21. ^ Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 102. ISBN 0-7091-8135-3.
  22. ^ St. Clair Baddeley, W. (1913). Gloucestershire Place-Names. Gloucester: John Bellows. pp. 142–143. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  23. ^ "the cotswolds: snowshill manor". suziebeezieland. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  24. ^ "Hidden London - Pronunciation". Hidden London. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  25. ^ "See entry for 25th April". Phon.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  26. ^ William Farrer & J. Brownbill (editors) (1907). "Townships: Wavertree". A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 16 July 2011. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  27. ^ a b c d "Moray - Pronunciation". Rootsweb at ancestry.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.


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