English-speaking Thais are forever pronouncing it “sal-mon.” When I tell them the L is silent, they look at me like I’m from Mars. I can actually hear them thinking, “Stupid farang. Can’t pronounce his own language.”
I think you mean Leicester, Worcestershire, and Featherstonehaugh.
Around here, forward has both Rs. What it doesn’t have is the w or a. It’s more like for-rrrd.
Traditionalist that I am, I say “Woden’s Day.”