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Also Berkeley and Berkshire are pronounced with a "bar" sound in UK English, but "burr" in the US, I believe.


True; and yet the British pejorative "berk" ("fool", "idiot") rhymes with "work" but is supposedly a contraction of "Berkeley Hunt" (rhyming slang for a word much ruder than the fairly mild "berk").




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