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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada Pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
  6. East or West Greenwich, RI (pronounced “Gren-ich”)
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
  6. East or West Greenwich, RI (pronounced “Gren-ich”)
  7. Monticello, UT (pronounced mon-tuh-SELL-oh)
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
  6. East or West Greenwich, RI (pronounced “Gren-ich”)
  7. Monticello, UT (pronounced mon-tuh-SELL-oh)
  8. Senath, MO (pronounced ZEE-nith) like the old TV Brand
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
  6. East or West Greenwich, RI (pronounced “Gren-ich”)
  7. Monticello, UT (pronounced mon-tuh-SELL-oh)
  8. Senath, MO (pronounced ZEE-nith) like the old TV Brand
  9. Gruene, Texas (pronounced “Green”)
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
  6. East or West Greenwich, RI (pronounced “Gren-ich”)
  7. Monticello, UT (pronounced mon-tuh-SELL-oh)
  8. Senath, MO (pronounced ZEE-nith) like the old TV Brand
  9. Gruene, Texas (pronounced “Green”)
  10. Irondequoit, NY (pronounced ear-RON-deh-coy)
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
  6. East or West Greenwich, RI (pronounced “Gren-ich”)
  7. Monticello, UT (pronounced mon-tuh-SELL-oh)
  8. Senath, MO (pronounced ZEE-nith) like the old TV Brand
  9. Gruene, Texas (pronounced “Green”)
  10. Irondequoit, NY (pronounced ear-RON-deh-coy)
  11. Manchaca, TX (pronounced MANN-shack)
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
  6. East or West Greenwich, RI (pronounced “Gren-ich”)
  7. Monticello, UT (pronounced mon-tuh-SELL-oh)
  8. Senath, MO (pronounced ZEE-nith) like the old TV Brand
  9. Gruene, Texas (pronounced “Green”)
  10. Irondequoit, NY (pronounced ear-RON-deh-coy)
  11. Manchaca, TX (pronounced MANN-shack)
  12. Worcester, UK - pr. WUS-ster
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Place names that locals don’t pronounce like they are spelled:

  1. Waskatenau, Alberta, Canada - pronounced Wa-set-na.
  2. Cholmondeley, Cheshire, UK - pronounced CHUM-ley
  3. Rhymney, Wales (Roger McGuinn, who sang “Bells of Rhymney” with the Byrds, now confesses before he plays the song, “It’s actually pronounced more like RUMM-nee.”)
  4. Mackinac Island, MI - pronounced Mack-i-naw.
  5. My home town of Waupun, Wisconsin. Rhymes with a friendly conductor’s invitation to “Hop on!”
  6. East or West Greenwich, RI (pronounced “Gren-ich”)
  7. Monticello, UT (pronounced mon-tuh-SELL-oh)
  8. Senath, MO (pronounced ZEE-nith) like the old TV Brand
  9. Gruene, Texas (pronounced “Green”)
  10. Irondequoit, NY (pronounced ear-RON-deh-coy)
  11. Manchaca, TX (pronounced MANN-shack)
  12. Worcester, UK - pr. WUS-ster
  13. Scipio, UT (pronounced SIP-ee-oh)

(I could do a Top 10 list of unconventionally pronounced Utah places, no problem.)

Next: Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
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Next: Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
  2. East Germany
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Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
  2. East Germany
  3. Czechoslovakia

1918-1993

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Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
  2. East Germany
  3. Czechoslovakia
  4. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
28938

Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
  2. East Germany
  3. Czechoslovakia
  4. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  5. Newfoundland
28939

Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
  2. East Germany
  3. Czechoslovakia
  4. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  5. Newfoundland
  6. United Arab Republic (a joint venture, Egypt+Syria)

(Newfoundland was never a country – it went straight from being a British colony of 400 years standing, to a province of Canada.)

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Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
  2. East Germany
  3. Czechoslovakia
  4. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  5. Newfoundland
  6. United Arab Republic (a joint venture, Egypt+Syria)
  7. Yugoslavia

1918-1992. (Serbia and Montenegro claimed to still be Yugoslavia for a while but this was not recognized by other countries.)

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Newfoundland was a self-ruling Dominion from 1907 to 1934.

28942

Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
  2. East Germany
  3. Czechoslovakia
  4. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  5. Newfoundland
  6. United Arab Republic (a joint venture, Egypt+Syria)
  7. Yugoslavia
  8. West Berlin – (Had its own elected Bundestag, and the laws of West Germany had no force until a mirror law was enacted for West Berlin by its own legislative assembly.)
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Political countries that came into being, and ceased to exist, within the 20th century.

  1. South Vietnam
  2. East Germany
  3. Czechoslovakia
  4. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  5. Newfoundland
  6. United Arab Republic (a joint venture, Egypt+Syria)
  7. Yugoslavia
  8. West Berlin
  9. People’s Republic of Kampuchea