I think some of these are made up like those fake streets mapmakers put in to catch plagiarists

@hannah what bugs me most about that table is centered headers over left-justified columns 👿

@ranjit take it up with the OUP!!

My ancestors fled to america because they couldnt handle their liege lord saying “actually it’s pronounced deverooks”

@hannah Imagining the big guy from Pawn Stars wearily saying in every episode "it's actually spelled Cholmondeley"

@jalefkowit that’s in the bbc rebroadcast localization

@hannah I see Mingus/Menzies in there, that's the best one

@Sindemore when the ȝ hits

@hannah These are so useful, have you got the rest of the list please? 🤩😁

@blue certainly

@hannah I will never get over the British insistence on pronouncing obviously French words in the least French way possible.

@liferstate i think it’s a sex thing

Slightly related: I was doing some idle research on the editor of my letters of keats edition, a guy I thought was named Hugh l'Anson Fausset, and I kept finding references where his middle name is spelled I'Anson, with an I instead of an l, and I was sure this was some kind of persistent online orthography error, but then discovered that I'Anson is in fact a real name designed specifically to make me feel like i'm going insane https://www.ianson-international.org.uk/name.html

@hannah |’Anson

@hannah I love that there’s a whole website devoted to this

@cinebox genealogy internet is great it's still 1998 over there

@hannah kind of like how whenever I'm reading something about someone named Al I misread it as AI and get immediately suspicious

@blue sans serif fonts were a mistake

@hannah not sure if anyone's mentioned it already, but Lisa I'Anson is (was?) famous enough in the uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_I'Anson

@bazzargh I’m curious how she pronounces it

@hannah amazing, thank you 🤩 bookmarked for reference!

@blue @hannah Unfortunately several of these are no longer pronounced that way. :( The one that stood out to me is Althorp, local to me. Even Viscount Althorp himself just says “All-thorp” these days.

@f4rr3r @blue yeah this is a 60 year old edition of a book i am given to understand was sort of the final boss of RP prescriptivism

@hannah it would be great to know the source of this - thanks in advance

@morgrugyn fowler's modern english usage, 2nd ed.