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Frome is The Most MIS-pronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists

A market town in Somerset, has, in the first place, a list of the 10 most difficult to pronounce place names in the UK.

Frome is The Most MIS-pronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists, the behind a language learning app.

Ballachulish in Scotland, Beaulieu in Hampshire and Woolfardisworthy in Devon is also in The Top 10.

The List of decision-makers, said British English was "famous for some of The Most confusing debate on earth".

" How do you say?': The Top 10 of the 'most difficult place names

Frome , Somerset, England, Ballachulish, Highland, Scotland, Godmanchester , Cambridgeshire, England, Omagh , County Tyrone , Northern Ireland Woolfardisworthy, Devon, England, Beaulieu , Hampshire, England, Bicester , Oxfordshire, England and Ynysybwl, Cwm Clydach, RCT, Wales, Rampisham, Dorset, England cross-more, Lancashire, England

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How would you speak these place names? See below to find out if they are correct.

The name is thought to come from the old BRITA cally word "ffraw".

It means fair, fine or brisk and describes the flow of The River passes through the city, which dates back to the 7. Century.

Paul Wynne, of Frome Town Council said, the name was The Most frequently expressed incorrectly as to rhyme with "house".

He said: "We are a city that toes The Line . Now it seems that even the way we talk to Frome is also different. Our way is The Right way to go, obviously. We always know who is new in town, which by the way you speak Frome .

tourists "fight"

"But this is a good thing to identify as it is easy for us and welcome new arrivals, and then immediately a part of the community. "

Kent Barker, the owner of Eight Rocky road to the wine bar and restaurant in the city, said: "It surprised me at all. We have a lot of tourists who visit in the summer, and certainly the majority of the fight with the name.

"more likely The Mediterranean sea, visitors, and all The Americans get it wrong.

"But I love you, to be here and not remember what they call it, as long as you come and visit Frome . "

There are two places in Devon called Woolfardisworthy - both equally hard to pronounce

Woolfardisworthy in Devon is also on The List , but which one? There are two places in Devon called Woolfardisworthy.

Woolfardisworthy West - the larger of the two Woolfardisworthys in the vicinity of Bideford - has adopted the easier to say version of your name, Woolsery.

But the Post Office manager, Andy Fryatt said, people sometimes still struggled to speak to the greatly shortened version.

"If you know it, and you have to use it Every Day , then obviously you're wondering why people don't (can say), especially with the condensed version," he said.

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"Maybe it's just something lost in translation over the phone, or the people just don't hear them properly, or do you think it is something that is spelt incorrectly, and saying, is it right. "

it has kept The smaller Woolfardisworthy East, in the vicinity of Crediton, the longer version of the name.

The two villages are only about an hour apart, and Alison Evans , runs two holiday apartments in The Village , said people used to the two places confused.

"thank God for zip codes Thank you," She Said , adding that the Navis thought of, people usually navigate to The Right Woolfardisworthy.

Ms Evans said she had been living there for 25 years, still not long in the local conditions.

"When we arrived we were told the people look at you blankly if you said Woolfarisworthy (phonetically)," She Said .

District Babergh Council has its name from the Anglo-Saxon name Barberga

A place on The List , Babergh, in Suffolk, is apparently pronounce so heavy that The District is the city Council.

the Council leader, John Ward, said: "Babergh has a proud history, but we know that people from further afield, are often not aware of exactly where Babergh and even fight over its Pronunciation . "

The Top 10 compiled by The Creators of the language app Babbel.

One of its editors, Ted Mentele, said: "British English is famous for some of The Most confusing debate on the earth.

"The Most important reason is that these are is hard to say that you don't phone spelled the table - there are a lot of" silent letters and letters that are pronounced differently, depending on where you got the word.

"a Lot of people in the UK, especially locals who grew up in these areas, listen to this name, and of course you find it so hard to get their tongues.

"the Others are trying to pronounce as they are written, and without knowing the origins of the word, you can. it is far from The Right "

As you speak the names of places in The Top 10 -

Frome - "Froom" Ballachulish "Ball - a - hoolish" Godmanchester - 'Godmunchester' (Gumster was also offered, as an alternative, but today, only little used, Pronunciation ) Grandma - "Oh-ma" Woolfardisworthy - "Woolzery" Beaulieu - "Bew-lee" Mechelen Maas - "Bister" Ynysybwl - "A-is-abull" Rampisham - "Ran-som" cross more "Kwor-mer"

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Source of news: bbc.com