Did you know that the English surname “Featherstonehaugh” is pronounced “fanshaw”? Table of more unexpected name pronunciations:
| Surname | Pronunciation |
|---|---|
| Alleyne | alleen |
| Ayscoug | as-kew |
| Balfour | balfer |
| Bayles | bayluss |
| Beauchamp | beecham |
| Beaufoy | boffy |
| Belvoir | beaver |
| Berkeley | barklee |
| Bethune | beeton |
| Blount | blunt |
| Caius | keys |
| Cholomondley | chumley |
| Colquhoun | car-hoon |
| Cowper | cooper |
| Coylton | culltun |
| Creamer | craymer |
| Crichton | cryton |
| Crough | crow |
| Cruwys | crews |
| Dalyell or Dalzell | dee-ell |
| Darlingscot | darscot |
| Death | de-ath |
| De la Rue | della-rue |
| De Ville | daveel |
| Donne | dunn |
| Eames | aimz |
| Eyre | air |
| Falconer | fawkner |
| Farquhar | farkwar |
| Featherstonehaugh | fanshaw |
| Foljambe | fool-jum |
| Foulis | fowls |
| Greenhalgh | greenholsh |
| Greig | greg |
| Grosvenor | grow-v’nor |
| Heathcoat | heth-cut |
| Home or Hulme | hewm |
| Hough | huff or hoe |
| Iveagh | ivah |
| Jacques | jakes |
| Jameson | jim-er-son |
| Kerr | carr |
| Keynes | kaynes |
| Lassiter | laster |
| Le Mesurier | le mezz-erer |
| Livesay | liv-see |
| Lutyens | luh-chens or lutchens |
| Lycett | lisset |
| McGillycuddy | mac-li-cuddy |
| McGrath | mcgraw |
| McLeroy | mack-ul-roy |
| Maclean | mac-layne |
| Magdalen | maudlin |
| Mainwaring | man-er-ing |
| Marjoribanks | marchbanks |
| Melhuish | mell-ish |
| Menzies | ming-is |
| Montgomery | mun-gum-eri |
| Myerscough | maskew |
| Nighy | nye |
| Peirce | purse |
| Pomfret | pum-fret |
| Prideaux | prid-o or pree-do |
| Ralph | raif |
| Ruthven | riven |
| St Clair | sin-clair |
| St John | sin-jun |
| Salisbury | sauls-bree |
| Sandys | sands |
| Scrymgeour | scrim-jer |
| Stanhope | stannup |
| Tarpley | taplee |
| Tuomey | too-mee |
| Tuthill | tuttle |
| Tyzack | tie-sack |
| Urquhart | erk-urt |
| Waldegrave | waldgrave or walgrave |
| Wodehouse | wood-house |
| Wolseley | wools-ly |
| Yeatman | yaytman |
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