bramling
Veteran Member
Alnwick seems to be odd one out here.
Most people seem to pronounce the river name as something close to A-lan or A-luhn, with the stress on the first syllable but barely a gap between the two syllables (IPA /ˈæl(ə)n/). Alnmouth follows this, but is definitely 'mouth' and not 'muth' (IPA /ˈæl(ə)nmaʊθ/).
So Alan-mouth without a gap between the two would be locally correct?
One does wonder how Annick was arrived at since it’s so different!