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Also the city in New Hampshire Leicester, Massachusetts: like Lester / ˈ l ɛ s t ər / [n 19] Leicester, Vermont: LY-stər / ˈ l aɪ s t ər / Lemhi County: LEM-hy / ˈ l ɛ m h aɪ / Lemoore: lə-MOR / l ə ˈ m ɔːr / Colloquial pronunciation LEE-mor / ˈ l iː m ɔːr / Official pronunciation Leominster: LEM-in-stər / ˈ l ɛ m ɪ n s t ...
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names. These common suffixes have the following regular pronunciations, which are historic, well established and etymologically consistent. However, they may be counterintuitive, as their pronunciation is inconsistent with the usual phonetics of English. -b(o)rough and -burgh – / b ər ə /
A city in Florida, whose indigenous-derived early name of Ahapopka means "potato-eating place". Arab: A city in Marshall County, Alabama, pronounced AY-rabb, just as in a popular 1962 American novelty song... Arcade, Italy: A town in Veneto, Italy that has nothing to do with arcade game. Arcade, New York: A village in Wyoming County, New York.
Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 1706 – 3 January 1785) was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic.He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. P. E. Bach, whose works are emblematic of the prevailing galant music that developed in Europe throughout the 18th century.
Dacula, Georgia: Residents local to Gwinnett County pronounce the city as / d ə ˈ k j uː l ə / də-KEW-lə while those unfamiliar with the area may pronounce the name of the town as / ˈ d æ k ʊ l ə / DAK-uul-ə. Gwinnett County and the city of Gwinnett, GA itself is subject to a shibboleth. The names are pronounced by locals as "Gwin ...
Normally, pronunciation is given only for the subject of the article in its lead section. For non-English words and names, use the pronunciation key for the appropriate language. If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one.
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.