I’d vote for Welsh villages.
Watch out for the Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch variant. It’s a bugger.
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Our local Facebook group and the republicans are pronouncing it mid term election virus.
I’m saying ah muh a cron
Alternately I’m pronouncing it “get the damn vaccine”.
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I’ve just been calling it the Unicron variant, now I kinda want to binge Transformers Prime again.
Name them after Icelandic volcanoes for maximum hilarity.
It’s not so much that it’s extra infectious, as the people saying the name need super-absorbent masks to stop spraying it.
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No it is not. It was heard on Newsnight on day one and has not reappeared. I suspect the style guide pronunciation team were a bit slow off the mark at the Beeb.
Oh-mi-cron with the i as in with (a British ‘with’ not an antipodean vowel-murdering ‘with’) 
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Fair enough. I was going from a UK English dictionary, in hopes that reflects actual usage, but it wouldn’t be the first time the two disagree.
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Names of areas of water between various landmarks. Check out the area around Denmark.
It’s not unheard of for words to have a number of acceptable pronunciations.
I’ll support animal names if we follow the Ubuntu operating system scheme of naming versions with an alliterative adjective-animal format. For example the Dastardly Duck and the Malfeasant Mandrake variants.
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You would be correct, sir.
Your reason is far more admirable; pledging was something I did when I was 20 and still young enough to engage in questionable shenanigans.
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