US pronunciation is (from the point of view of a western european) very very wild sometimes. If you ask anyone who lives closer to Paris than America how to pronounce the university of Notre Dame you're going to get a very different answer to someone who's an alumnus (something like Nodur Dayme?).
Yep... Calais (ME) and Bryn Mawr (PA) come to mind.
Re:British Placename Mapper
by kjellsbells on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:37AM
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New Orleans.
Nor-luns (locals)
Nyoo Or-lee-uns (british)
Noo Or-leh-onz (confused french people)
Its confusing.
Re:British Placename Mapper
by mytailorisrich on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:45AM
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French people say La Nouvelle Orleans as it is supposed to be ;)
I think they'd also say laissez rouler les bon temps (let roll the good times) as proper French grammar.
What would a native French speaker make of DuPage county?
The name of the whole of Illinois is an American-English mispronunciation of a French mispronunciation of a Native American word which is/was something like irenwe·wa.
Is it pronounced in English, Spanish, one of the Native American tongues?
Unless you are from the US and get taught these things it's easy to get place names wrong.