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Iper (also Ypres), Troyes, Amiens.
And of course Aussie place names are traps for beginning players and new employees in regional stations. Mispronunciation of these names is a big giveaway to the audience that you are not a local nor have you studied up on the local area.
Conowindra
Goodooga
Wingecarribee
I am also noticing some basic mistakes in news reading:
May-oar for Mayor (pronounced mare, like the horse)
mauve (wrongly pronounced moore-v)
nuclear (wrongly pronounced nu-kell-ar)
eleven - so many times I have heard it pronounced with an A at the beginning, wrongly as A-leven, not EE-leven.
Oh, so many words, so little time to list them all...
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