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This is a sublist of List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations.
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Chelsea | Ancelotti I | Villas-Boas P | Di Matteo I | Benítez S | Mourinho P | Hiddink N | Conte I | ||||||
Arsenal | Wenger F | ||||||||||||
Tottenham Hotspur | Redknapp E | Villas-Boas P | Sherwood E | Pochettino A | |||||||||
Manchester City | Mancini I | Pellegrini C | Guardiola S | ||||||||||
Liverpool | Hodgson E | Dalglish Sc | Rodgers NI | Klopp G | |||||||||
Manchester United | Ferguson Sc | Moyes Sc | van Gaal N | Mourinho P | |||||||||
Everton | Moyes Sc | Martínez S | Koeman N | ||||||||||
West Bromwich Albion | Di Matteo I | Hodgson E | Clarke Sc | Mel S | Irvine Sc | Pulis W | |||||||
Stoke City | Pulis W | Hughes W | |||||||||||
Southampton | Adkins E | Pochettino A | Koeman N | Puel F | |||||||||
West Ham United | Grant Is | Allardyce E | Bilić Cr | ||||||||||
Burnley | Pearson E | Ranieri I | |||||||||||
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Pronunciations for the following common suffixes are regular pronunciations, despite being counterintuitive at first glance:
- -b(o)rough and -burgh – /bʌrə/, /brə/
- -bury – /bʌri/, /bri/
- -cester – /stər/[1]
- -combe, -coombe, -comb and -cambe – /kəm/ (often). As standalone words always /kuːm/ (including in place names such as Castle Combe and Coombe Bissett)
- -gh – silent (usually, as 'f' in a considerable minority of northern English place names and in Woughton, Milton Keynes)
- -ham – /əm/
- -holm(e) – /hoʊm/, /əm/
- -on as first syllable is usually as in London, Coningsby or Tonbridge (see Middle English handwriting preventing 'un' and 'um'); excludes a few such as intuitive Lonsdale
- -shire – /ʃər/, /ʃɪər/ (rhotic or semi-rhotic r in 'er' as final syllable non-existent in some English dialects such as Kentish and Cockney), /ʃaɪər/(esp. in Yorkshire and Scotland)
- -wich - /ɪtʃ/, /ɪdʒ/[2]
- -wick – /ɪk/[3][n 1]
- -mouth – /mʊθ/
Pronunciation of the following common prefix is variable depending on dialect: