From what other people have posted, there's obviously a wider variety of pronunciations of placenames than you would think. I personally can't see any way of pronouncing "Newcastle" in less than three syllables, "Carlisle" to me has equal stress on the two syllables, surely "Blackpool" is "BLACKpool", "Horsham" is "HORshum", "Ascot" is "ASScott" or "ASScutt" etc.
On a related matter, random has just suggested that in the local accent, Yeovil can often be "YoVULL".
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Date: 2009-06-25 12:49 pm (UTC)On a related matter, random has just suggested that in the local accent, Yeovil can often be "YoVULL".