Okay. Let's start off with a pronunciation quiz.
Here are five British place names.
Can you say them?
Leicester, Edinburgh, Loughborough, Durham, and Gloucester.
How did you do?
Pretty tough, right?
Okay. I'll let you into a secret. We do it just a...
Seriously though, UK place names are notoriously tricky for visitors to pronounce.
I guess because the relationship between the way a place is spelled and pronounced has become completely detached.
So, that CE in "Leicester" and "Gloucester" has become a /s/ sound, a sort of S.
