There's also a very big Yorkshire place with a name people repeatedly get wrong.
Put yourself in their shoes by going to Leominster in Herefordshire, Beaulieu in Hampshire, Bicester in Oxfordshire, Mousehole in Cornwall or Alnwick in Northumberland. How about Towcester in Northamptonshire, Hunstanton in Norfolk, Holborn in London and so on. You get the idea.
Ask anyone from York and they'll tell you that's cobblers. It's pronounced 'ay-cum' as its spelling suggests. Maybe long ago it was pronounced 'yak-um' but it isn't now. Harewood House There's some disagreement as to how you pronounce the 'hare' bit. Is it 'hare' like the animal or 'har' as in hard? Jervaulx/Rievaulx You can't blame the offcumdens and tourists for mispronouncing these medieval abbey villages. These place names originate from Norman French so if you drop the L and follow modern French pronunciation you won't go far wrong.North York Moors Yes, there is a North Yorkshire Moors Railway but the National Park and the region is and has always been called the North York Moors. It is not called the North Yorkshire Moors.
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