Do you pronounce drive as "jrive" and train as "chrain"?

[english si]

Whoa, really?  I've never heard anyone pronounce "sandwich" or "Greenwich" with a /dʒ/ sound before.

This is why Londoners laugh at American (especially American - probably only them in fact) tourists in London thinking they know how to say stuff. Green-witch is nearly as famous as Lie-ces-ter Square.

I'm guessing Greenwich, CT is pronounced "Green-witch", unlike the place it's named after which is pronounced "Gren-ige".

Likewise, sandwich is correctly pronounced like the town on the other side of Kent to Greenwich that it is named after: "San-dwige" not "Sand-witch".

Next you'll be pronouncing Chomondley as Chom-ond-lee, not Chum-ley, as you think English pronounciation has anything to do with how words are spelt.

[kphoger]

Whoa, really?  I've never heard anyone pronounce "sandwich" or "Greenwich" with a /dʒ/ sound before.

This is why Londoners laugh at American (especially American - probably only them in fact) tourists in London thinking they know how to say stuff. Green-witch is nearly as famous as Lie-ces-ter Square.

I'm guessing Greenwich, CT is pronounced "Green-witch", unlike the place it's named after which is pronounced "Gren-ige".

Likewise, sandwich is correctly pronounced like the town on the other side of Kent to Greenwich that it is named after: "San-dwige" not "Sand-witch".

Next you'll be pronouncing Chomondley as Chom-ond-lee, not Chum-ley, as you think English pronounciation has anything to do with how words are spelt.

Here in Wichita, the city is split between those who pronounce a principal street through the city as "Green-witch" and those who pronounce the same street as "Grenn-itch."  I know one person who says "Grenn-witch."

FWIW, our family has taken to calling Worcestershire sauce "W sauce."

[hotdogPi]

I'm guessing Greenwich, CT is pronounced "Green-witch", unlike the place it's named after which is pronounced "Gren-ige".

Greenwich, CT is not pronounced as it looks, but it's not quite what it is in the UK (still -itch, not -ige).

Worcester, MA and Gloucester, MA are pronounced as they are in the UK. One city in Ohio had to simplify the spelling to "Wooster" so that people wouldn't mess up.

Leominster is pronounced with 3 syllables in Massachusetts, 2 in the UK, and 4 for anyone who incorrectly tries to guess based on how it looks.

[kphoger]

Norfolk, Nebraska, is pronounced "Nor-fork."  But it's named after neither England nor Virginia, rather its etymology is "North Fork."

[english si]

FWIW, our family has taken to calling Worcestershire sauce "W sauce."

drop the 'shire', as no one uses that bit. Wooster sauce.

Greenwich, CT is not pronounced as it looks, but it's not quite what it is in the UK (still -itch, not -ige).

-itch is probably more right, with -ige being my lazy effort at consonants. Certainly it's acceptable as the issue that causes the shibboleth is Green rather than Grenn and the 'w' (and stress on the beginning, not the end, hence why it drawls into -ige).