Name a place that when people pronounce it you know if they are a from there.

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In most of the world, Peabody is pronounced pee-BODY. But in Massachusetts, it's PEE-b'dee.

In general, towns ending in -ham put the emphasis on the first syllable and pronounce "ham" more like "um". For instance, Needham is NEED-um, not need-HAM, and Dedham is DED-um, not dead-HAM. But Framingham is framing-HAM and Waltham is more like wall-tham, so don't get too attached to this rule.

People from Boston love to leave out their r's... yet Norfolk is pronounced Norfork. No idea why on that one.

Quincy should have a 'z' in it: it's quin-zee, not quin-see.

If there are a lot of vowels in a word, chances are some of them are ignored:

Leominster is leh-min-ster, not lee-oh-min-ster, and Billerica is bill-rica, not bill-er-ica.

But sometimes you need to add a vowel: Woburn is woo-burn, not wo-burn.

Worcester may be the weirdest of them all.. It's two syllables, not three: wuh-ster, not wor-che-ster.