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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 /
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 ...
The boy’s name Oisín and the girl’s name Róisín are Ush-een and Rush-een in most parts of the country, but O-sheen and Ro-sheen in others. When a fada appears over an i at the end of a name ...
It may be counterintuitive for a native English speaker, but might not be counterintuitive for, say, a Brit vs. an American, or for a Scot or a Native American, or a latinophone or francophone, or anyone familiar with the linguistic origin of the name. I suggest "List of names in English-speaking countries that are frequently mispronounced."
When a non-English name has a set English pronunciation (or pronunciations), include both the English and non-English pronunciations; the English transcription must always be first. If the native name is different from the English name, the native transcription must appear after the native name. For example:
Miami, Oklahoma: Locals from northeastern Oklahoma pronounce the name as / m aɪ ˈ æ m ə / my-AM-ə, while others pronounce the name like the city in Florida, / m aɪ ˈ æ m i / my-AM-ee. [67] [68] [69] Moyock, North Carolina: Locals pronounce it as / ˈ m oʊ j ɒ k / MOH-yok, while most visitors pronounce it as / ˈ m ɔɪ ɒ k / MOY-ok.
When Lushootseed names were integrated into English, they were often recorded and pronounced very differently. An example of this is Chief Seattle. The name Seattle is an anglicisation of the modern Duwamish conventional spelling Si'ahl, equivalent to the modern Lushootseed spelling siʔaɫ Salishan pronunciation: [ˈsiʔaːɬ].