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This list does not include place names in the United Kingdom or the United States, or places following spelling conventions of non-English languages. For UK place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom. For US place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United States. This list includes territories of ...
The names on this page mostly have silent letters that aren't silent in regular words (-rce- isn't usually silent in English, but it is even in rhotic pronunciations of Worcester) or letters that reflect a pronunciation they don't normally reflect (-tch- doesn't usually spell /k/ in English, but it does in Natchitoches).
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 /
Let's be honest: Some words are really hard to pronounce. So some Redditors set out to determine the most difficult words to pronounce in the English language. You ready? After more than 5,000 ...
Name of multiple places New Berlin: New BUR-lin / ˈ b ɜːr l ɪ n / Name of multiple places New Orleans: new OR-linz / n j uː ˈ ɔːr l ɪ n z / [n 27] New Madrid, Missouri: New MAD-rid / ˈ m æ d r ɪ d / New Prague, Minnesota: New PRAYG / ˈ p r eɪ ɡ / New Tripoli, Pennsylvania: New trih-POH-lee / t r ɪ ˈ p oʊ l i / Noel, Missouri ...
Before free agency opens in full at 5 p.m. Sunday, here’s our list of the biggest names to sign with the Thunder in free agency. Again, not necessarily the best, but the biggest.
On the other hand, this is a "List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations", and people might not consider Dún Laoghaire and Beinn Bhreagh to be names in English. +An gr 10:38, 15 March 2010 (UTC) English is a mongrel language with global scope.
In the Foreign Service Institute’s language classification system, the most difficult languages are at Category 5. These take 88 weeks or 2,200 hours of classroom time to reach proficiency.