List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom

This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names.

Colney COney Hatch

De Beauvoir BEAver Town (usu.)

Marylebone MARlyb'n (alt.)

Plaistow PLAHsto

Ruislip RYslip

Greenwich GRENidge

Southwark SU-ðərK

Vauxhall VOK-sawl

Dulwich DULLidge

Chiswick CHIZick

Isleworth Ayezəlworth

A map of irregularly spelled places in London

Pronunciations for the following common suffixes are regular pronunciations, despite being counterintuitive at first glance:

• -b(o)rough and -burgh – /bərə/, /brə/
• -bury – /bri/
• -cester – /stər/[n 1]
• -combe, -coombe, -comb and -cambe – /kəm/ (often). As stand-alone words always /kuːm/ (including in place names such as Castle Combe and Coombe Bissett)
• -ford – /fərd/
• -gh – silent (usually, as 'f' in a considerable minority of northern English place names and in Woughton, Milton Keynes)
• -ham – /əm/
• -holm(e) – /hoʊm/, /əm/
• -mouth – /məθ/
• -on as first syllable is usually as in London, Coningsby or Tonbridge (see Middle English handwriting preventing 'un' and 'um'); excludes a few such as intuitive Lonsdale
• -shire – /ʃər/, /ʃɪər/ (rhotic or semi-rhotic r in 'er' as final syllable non-existent in some English dialects such as Kentish and Cockney), /ʃaɪər/(esp. in Yorkshire and Scotland)
• -wich - /ɪtʃ/, /ɪdʒ/[n 2]
• -wick – /ɪk/[n 3][n 4]

Pronunciation of the following common prefix is variable depending on dialect:

• Al- /ˈɒl, ˈɔːl/