LONDON -- There are some places in Britain that are so confusingly-named that most British people don't know how to pronounce them right.
To tie in with the 150th anniversary of the naming of Europe's longest place name -- a village in Wales called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch -- custom map platform Mapiful teamed up with the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters to put together a list of the most commonly mispronounced places in the UK.
Try and say these 11 places without peeking at the correct pronunciation below.
1.
How it's pronounced: har-den
2.
How it's pronounced: kin-uck-ar
3.
How it's pronounced: ayn-ster
4.
How it's pronounced: kull-ayn
5.
How it's pronounced: flit-ick
6.
How it's pronounced: mill-guy
7.
How it's pronounced: win-dem
8.
How it's pronounced: toh-ster
9.
How it's pronounced: biss-ter
10.
How it's pronounced: trozz-lee
11.
How it's pronounced: wool-zeh-ree
If you managed to get any of the above right without cheating -- assuming you don't happen to live in any of those places, of course -- then we're mightily impressed.
Bonus points if you got Trottiscliffe or Woolfardisworthy, which might be two of the most confusingly-spelt places ever.