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The place names everyone says wrong
The place names everyone says wrong
13 February 2015
Professor John Wells (UCL Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences) says that place names are often mispronounced because of "the opaqueness of English spelling, which does not enable us to predict pronunciation with any certainty".
Read: Daily Mail
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