This is a sublist of
List of irregularly spelled English names
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations, or because a better known namesake wit ...
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These common suffixes have these regular pronunciations, yet would be counterintuitive (irregular) in normal English:
* -b(o)rough and -burgh –
* -bury –
* -cester –
* -combe, -coombe, -comb and -cambe – . When stand-alone: always (including in place names such as
Castle Combe and
Coombe Bissett)
* -ford –
* -gh – silent (usually as 'f' in a considerable minority of northern English place names and in Woughton, Milton Keynes)
* -ham –
* -holm(e) – ,
* -mouth –
* -shire – , , (esp. in Scotland)
* -wich - ,
* -wick –
Prefixes:
* Al- – , ; with very few exceptions such as
Alba,
Alperton.
* Saint- – , for most speakers.
Other:
* -on- – as first syllable is usually as in
London,
Coningsby or
Tonbridge (see
Middle English handwriting preventing 'un' and 'um'); excludes a few such as
Lonsdale
List
Notes
References
Further reading
* {{cite book, editor=G. M. Miller , year=1971, title=BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names, publisher=
Oxford University Press, isbn=0-19-431125-2
Irregularly spelled England
Irregularly spelled