Hacker News Reader

Comment by darkwater | Hacker News Reader

Grenich anyone?

Soderk (Southwark), Marlibon (Marylebone), Reding (Reading), Bister (Bicester), Sozbery (Salisbury), Frum (Frome), Worick (Warwick), Noridge (Norwich), Darby (Derby), and the various Gloster, Lester, Wooster

Yeah but Greenwich is a place known world-wide, and I guess a high percentage of people mispronounce it (I was one of them).

It's known worldwide, but many people never heard an actual Britt pronouncing it.

In my country, it was always pronounced as green-each. Only in this thread I realised it's written Green-wich and pronounced gren-each.

And I'm pretty sure I'll forget it quickly and just keep calling it green-each.

It's more like gren-itch than gren-each (native UK speaker).

... Hoyk (Hawick), Kircoodbree (Kirkcudbright), Mullguy (Milngavie), Cooriss (Culross), Geeree (Garioch), Eyela (Islay)

However, some Americans even have trouble with Glasgow (Glaz-go, not Glass-gow) and Edinburgh (Ed-in-burra, not Edin-bro)

Edinburgh is morr commonly pronounced “edinbruh”.

Glasgow and Edinburgh are pronounced "Glesca" and "Embra" by their natives but I wouldn't recommend it to others.

I've heard some Americans pronounce it "Edin-bo-ro" which is entirely off.

Southwark is “suh-thuk”. Salisbury “sorlsbry”. Norwich “norrich”.

Yeah trying to map English sounds to Latin letters is the exact problem. It's a very lossy transformation.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com