WHETHER you've been a Cheshire resident all your life or are new to the area, chances are you've heard or said a place name which has tripped you up with its pronunciation.

While some place names are very straightforward to pronounce (practically all of those in the Ellesmere Port area – Overpool, Hope Farm, Stanlow, Whitby, Little/Great Sutton – won't tax any tongues), others in the county have been given some amusingly incorrect alternatives.

We asked Standard readers on our Facebook pages for suggestions, and here is what you came up with below...

Cholmondeley

Starting off with an obvious one, this little rural village – now home to the annual Deva Fest – is acclaimed as one of the most mispronounced in the UK. At first glance, the civil parish looks as though it should be pronounced 'Chol-mon-de-lee', when the correct way is 'Chum-lee'.

Lache

This Chester suburb sometimes has visitors giving it a more continental twang, as 'La-shay'. More accurately, it's 'laitch'.

Bache

Just one litter difference from the above, this tiny part of Chester contains the Countess of Chester Hospital and is a familiar sound to Merseyrail passengers as it being the last stop for those on their way to Chester. Mangled mispronunciations of this have included 'Back-ee' or 'Batch', when it's simply a rhyme of Lache, as in 'baitch'.

Blacon

Sometimes this Chester suburb gets mispronounced by solicitors unfamiliar to the area, as they tell the bench at the local magistrates court their defendant, having been arrested, was taken to the custody suite at 'black-on'. Blacon is pronounced the same way one would pronounce 'bacon' with an 'l'; 'blay-con'.

Saughall

While there is a village hall in Saughall, the latter half of its name is not pronounced as such. Rather, it's 'saw-gull'.

Burwardsley

While now pretty much accepted that the pronunciation of this place name is how it looks – 'buh-wards-lee', the historic pronunciation of this village was more like 'bosley' or 'bursley'.

Popping over the borderline, another suggestion on our page was the Flintshire community of 'Hawarden', which sometimes has people trying to include the 'w' when saying its name. The correct pronunciation is 'hard-en'.

Do you know your Croughtons from your Boughtons? What others can you suggest? And how should they be pronounced? Let us know in the comments below or on our Facebook page.