Station Name Mispronunciation

There is a DLR PSA who has a slightly odd accent, presumably with a significant North American component to it, whose pronunciation of the "a" in places like "Stratford" and "Canning Town" is somewhere between the vowel in "cat" and that in "bay". He also pronounces the second "w" in Woolwich (wool-wich). I don't recall hearing him say "Greenwich" but presumably he pronounces the "w" in that too.

When the ibus system was new it announced Loughton as "Loreton" (/?l???.t?n/?not /?la?.t?n/) (the first syllable rhymes with "cow" not "law").

Having never heard the word spoken, I initially thought the junction east of Tower Hill was pronounced "mine-ories" (/?ma?n..i?z/)?rather than "minn-ories" (/?m?n..i?z/)

Surrey Quays used be mispronounced Surrey Docks!

XF

I had an Irish great aunt who wanted to visit Loughton, which to use the Scottish spelling, she pronounced as Loch Tonn.
I've also heard Theydon Bois, with the Bois pronounced the French way.

It is Plarstow if you live there, Playstow if you do not.

PLAISTOW

There is a village near me in Sussex with the same spelling > >PLASS Toe

Sussex within living memory had it's own dialect. There are 2 x Southwicks each 20 miles from me, - one east, one west

The one near Brighton is pronounced SOUTHWick, the one near Fareham is pronounced "Suthick" (as in Chiswick)

On my line, we've recently acquired a station called IJselmeer - which I thought was near Zwolle but which actually turns out to be between Witley and Liphook.

GH

In a month or so, I'm going to be doing DofE in the Brecon Beacons. The plaaning sessions are so funny, everyone is trying to pronounce these Welsh names (remember we are schoolboys in fulham) "Nant cum lwek" (Nant Cwm Llwch)is just one of these names.

Trying to haul this back on topic...

Was rather surprised not so long ago to hear a Met (A60) op refer to Aldgate pronouncing the first syllable as in Al. Surely he must have been aware of the correct pronunciation of the line terminus!

If the TOp was trying to make sure Americans understood him, it was probably unnecessary. Greenwich is the best known example of "the British spell things one way but pronounce them in another," and the neighbourhood in Manhattan is known as "Gren-itch Village" even if occasionally one does hear "Green Witch Mean Time" from time to time.

Saying "Strat-ford" instead of "Strat-furred" for Stratford is even worse. In all my years I don't think I've ever heard the second syllable of Stratford pronounced like the car company.

I've found there are two subtly different ways of saying "Greenwich" that both seem acceptable:
"Grennitch" which most people use,and
"Grinnitch" which seems to be used a lot by people who live there and,er,posh people.

This would be more interesting in Norfolk.

Wymondham is pronounced Wind-am and Costessey is pronounced Cossey.

Southern automated announcements pronounce Sydenham as "Sidden-ham." London Overground has it correctly, although they used to have Brockley as "Arkley"

The correct pronounciation of Tring being "Twing!" ^[*] of course. The exclamation mark is compulsory, a bit like Westward Ho!

[*] My Twitterati will be familiar with "Twing!" as code for "I'm nearly in London!"

That's because the DVA is correct, I grew up down the bottom of Heathway at Chequers, we all called it Beck-on-tree and only non-locals called it Bee-con-tree. Must have been a load of non-"Dag-nam"-ites (never Dag-en-ham) moved to the area and are pronouncing it wrong.