we have town names like this here in Massachusetts and it’s literally because we simply stole them from England
why we pick their town names to steal, i’ll never understand
have fun trying to pronounce worcester or leominster or haverill or scituate
why is every English town named “new southwest worcesterwyckhamshirehampton-upon-the-balls” and pronounced like “woshampton”
there's like requirements you have to meet:
be at least 8 different words or other place names stuck together
have some weird phrase with dashes at the end
dumb prefix
be pronounced in two syllables even though the word is spelled with 75 letters
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leominster is pronounced lemon-stir, which isn’t especially terrible, but we do have leicester, which is pronounced lester