{"id":1062,"date":"2016-01-06T00:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/well-bet-you-cant-pronounce-these-11-tongue-twisting-british-place-names\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T00:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:51:47","slug":"well-bet-you-cant-pronounce-these-11-tongue-twisting-british-place-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/06\/well-bet-you-cant-pronounce-these-11-tongue-twisting-british-place-names\/","title":{"rendered":"We'll bet you can't pronounce these 11 tongue-twisting British place names"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 There are some places in Britain that are so confusingly-named that most British people don’t know how to pronounce them right.<\/p>\n

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See also: Barely pronounceable Welsh place names are no match for this weatherman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

To tie in with the 150th anniversary of the naming of Europe’s longest place name \u2014 a village in Wales called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch \u2014 custom map platform Mapiful<\/em> teamed up with the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters to put together a list<\/a> of the most commonly mispronounced places in the UK.<\/p>\n

Try and say these 11 places without peeking at the correct pronunciation below. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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LONDON \u2014 There are some places in Britain that are so confusingly-named that most British people don’t know how to pronounce them right. See also: Barely pronounceable Welsh place names are no match for this weatherman To tie in with … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,604,193,1,41,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-mispronounced-names","category-no-lead-image-template","category-other","category-uk","category-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}