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Old 12-07-2023, 09:10 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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Don't forget Quincy. Outsiders can't pronoune it the way we do.
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Old 12-07-2023, 09:10 AM
 
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Billerica big time.

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Old 12-07-2023, 09:27 AM
 
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Raynham, Stoughton, Weymouth.
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Old 12-07-2023, 09:31 AM
 
Location: Central Mass
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Worcester, Leicester and Gloucester are mispronounced by design.
Time for a deep dive.

It's because Latin.

-ceaster became -cester, but started as castrum. Roman Latin for fort or military camp.

Worcester was a Roman camp on the River Severn, connected by river to Gloucester. Probably named after the Weorgoran - old english for people of the winding river. Some people say the Roman name was Weorgoran Castrum

We're lucky that they used the modern spelling of Cambridge!

Imagine if it were still Cair Grauth! Duroliponte was a fort above the River Cam on Castle Hill. In 410 when the Romans left, the Britons renamed it Cair Grauth. Once they were replaced by Saxons, they renamed it Grantebrycge. After the Danes left, the Normans called it Cambridge.

Chrome says I misspelled a whole lot of words
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Old 12-07-2023, 09:56 AM
 
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Revere

It's pronounced "Rev-EAHHHH Kehd"
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Old 12-07-2023, 11:16 AM
 
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Billerica big time.

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The town of Billericay in England is pronounced as BIL-É™-RIK-ee.
So those from UK are almost guaranteed to pronounce Billerica wrong.
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Old 12-07-2023, 11:50 AM
 
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Don't forget Quincy. Outsiders can't pronoune it the way we do.
Quinzy
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Old 12-07-2023, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Cape Coral , Florida
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Barre?
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Old 12-07-2023, 12:10 PM
 
Location: Providence, RI
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Barre?
If it's like the town of the same name in VT, then "Barry." But I don't know the MA pronunciation.

As someone who spent a lot of my young life on the South Coast, here are a few:
  • Assonet
  • Padanaram
  • Acoaxet
  • Weweantic
All villages or places within towns rather than towns themselves, but all places I've struggled to pronounce or seen people struggle to pronounce.
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Old 12-07-2023, 02:08 PM
 
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Newbury & related town names: it's not New-berry. It's NYU'bry.
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