Cholmondeley is another great one, pronounced CHUM-ly.
Whenever I see a difficult name/place name in England, I say, “It must be pronounced ‘Chumly.’”
Ooh! Ooh! And Featherstonehaugh is another great one.
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I have been told by the son of a Quebecois speaker that “oiseaux” in his mother’s dialect is pronounced “weezoh” rather than “wahzoh”
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My dad was from Surrey and pronounced it “wooster”.
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See also; “Ralph Fiennes”
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Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
What did the Normans ever do for us?
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One more cross-post, as it fits here, too…
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Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000713
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No shit
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I suspect that even though this was an Australian study, their models simply weren’t able to pick up on the creative language that is Aussie swearing
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Came here to post this! and to say @ProfOddfellow 
PS: When TF do you sleep, Mindy-San?
{I’m one to talk: I’m about to go to bed now }
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Boatswain being pronounced “bosun” bothers me more than it probably should.
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What about the f in lieutenant?
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It’s even worse how they say forecastle.
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Or the R in Colonel
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Olut or kalja.
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