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If announcements are prerecorded why not get them right?

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Moving away from Wales to the North-West, I've heard Kirkby and Euxton pronounced as spelt. I think I'm right in saying that all place names with Kirkby drop the second k, EXCEPT Kirkby-in-Ashfield, where you pronounce it. It's easy to get a local place name wrong in the shop or pub, especially names of suburbs or villages which are rarely spoken outside the local area. I was caught out by Stow on the Borders line, which is pronounced to rhyme with cow or Slough, not as in Stowmarket or Stow-on-the-Wold.
 
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swtandgw said:
As for Wymondham, there's another Wymondham in existence in Leicestershire, but unlike the Norfolk Wymondham, the Leicestershire one is pronounced phonetically.
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Being from Norwich originally, just down the road from the Norfolk version of Wymondham, and now driving buses in Melton Mowbray, this particular example completely threw me when I started driving the RF2 which passes through Leicestershire’s Wymondham on its way to Oakham!
 
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geoffk said:
Moving away from Wales to the North-West, I've heard Kirkby and Euxton pronounced as spelt. I think I'm right in saying that all place names with Kirkby drop the second k, EXCEPT Kirkby-in-Ashfield, where you pronounce it. It's easy to get a local place name wrong in the shop or pub, especially names of suburbs or villages which are rarely spoken outside the local area. I was caught out by Stow on the Borders line, which is pronounced to rhyme with cow or Slough, not as in Stowmarket or Stow-on-the-Wold.
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And also in the North West - in fact, both are in the metropolitan county of Merseyside -'Meols' and 'Meols Cop'. The former (on the Wirral Line) pronounced 'Mells', the latter (first stop out of Southport towards Wigan Wallgate) pronounced 'Meals Kop'.
 
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What's it called? It's called Cumbernauld
TheSel said:
And also in the North West - in fact, both are in the metropolitan county of Merseyside -'Meols' and 'Meols Cop'. The former (on the Wirral Line) pronounced 'Mells', the latter (first stop out of Southport towards Wigan Wallgate) pronounced 'Meals Kop'.
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Could that be related to the Cheshire (Wirral) and Lancashire (Southport) way of pronouncing placenames?
 
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