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When it comes to pronunciation, English words are infamously idiosyncratic. Tough, though and thought, anyone? So spare a thought for all the tourists who come to the UK. For nowhere is this ...

Inhabited by a succession of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and Normans, Britain has spent centuries simmering into a confusing toponymic soup of counties, cities and castles. Over time, ...

The tasting hosts at Beaulieu Vineyard almost certainly can recite the speech in their sleep. I asked (as do most visitors, I learned): What does the hard-to-pronounce "Beaulieu" mean? The story goes ...

Devon is full of unusual place names, but there's one that's harder to get your tongue around than most. Woolfardisworthy in North Devon was recently ranked as the fifth most difficult-to-pronounce ...

Frome is the most mispronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists A market town in Somerset has topped a list of the 10 most difficult-to-pronounce place names in the UK. Frome is the ...