• faintwhenfree@lemmus.org
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    4 days ago

    UK is the worst, US makes sense at least to some degree.

    Gloucestershire - pronounced glostershire Warwick - pronounced warrick And there like hundreds of these weird ones.

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      Place names are cheating. Almost all of them come from old/other languages that have very little resemblance to modern english.