List of irregularly spelled places in the United States
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- The "s" sound generally merges with the same sound in "City."
- In contradistinction to the surname, by convention, these rhyme with "Oliver"
- cf. English low-lying point (without a middle syllable).
- Eau Claire, Wisconsin is pronounced more closely to the French pronunciation: /oʊˈklɛər/ (oh-KLAIR)
- cf. intuitive Borough of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, which is pronounced /ˈɛfrətə/ EF-rə-tə
- cf. intuitive/ˈɡælvɪstən/ GAL-viss-tən for larger Galveston, Texas
- As per traditional English town, county and nursery rhyme
- Beginning defies traditional English rules (cf. green) But Greenwich, New Jersey is pronounced as if it were "green-witch"
- cf. intuitive /ˈhɑːrlɪŋən/ HAR-ling-ən for Harlingen, Netherlands
- Intuitively /ˈhaɪndmən/ HYND-mən is sometimes used outside Eastern Kentucky
- Named via Sam Houston after Houston, Scotland, a concatenation of "Hu's town"'
- The last syllable is standard in the British pronunciation of hurricane, but not in American English, whereas the first syllable is counterintuitive and muted compared to hurricane in either.
- cf. various Waco towns
- locally
- with two syllables only
- As per English town and county
- Uncommon, rare, or dialectal pronunciation
- cf. the obvious final syllable of Miami, Florida
- All derived from Montpellier, France [mɔ̃pɛlje]
- equivalent to the British English pronunciation of Moscow, Russia. Other Moscows in America are /ˈmɒskaʊ/ MOSS-kow, the American English pronunciation of the Russian city.
- Homophone to the dining course, dessert
- The pronunciation /nɪˈvɑːdə/ niv-AH-də, while fairly common (particularly in the eastern United States), is stigmatized locally.
- cf. Newark, New Jersey /ˈnuːərk/ NOO-ərk, and Newark, Delaware or Newark, New York /ˈnuːɑːrk/ NOO-ark generally
- Traditionally locally /ˈnwɔːrlɪnz/ NWOR-linz with a very light /w/ is used, i.e. between the local and national.
- Identical to the English county of Norfolk, and intuitive given the common word folk. Popular navy wordplay notwithstanding, the vowel in the last syllable is unstressed, very short, and closed, as in foot. Locals born in or after the last half of the 20th Century, who have partly or wholly adopted the American Broadcast Accent, often pronounce it /ˈnɔːrfɪk/ NOR-fik with the r substituted for /ɻ/
- cf. the regular American pronunciation of "Christian", /ˈkrɪstʃən/ KRISS-chən
- cf. common and well-known Spanish approximations elsewhere.
- Or intuitively per Spanish among Hispanics
- cf. Raleigh surname and brands traditionally said like Wall
- Locally.
- cf. given name Sigourney: /sɪˈɡɔːrniː/
- Same as examples in England such as London Borough of Waltham Forest. cf. greatly US well-known comparators.
- Woburn, Bedfordshire and Woburn, Toronto are simply /ˈwoʊbərn/ WOH-bərn
- Mispronounced as /ˈwuːstər/
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