I need some pronunciation help

There is no right or wrong pronunciation of proper names, other than the pronunciation given them by their owners. It's Loopold.

In GA, there's a county spelled Talliferro. It's pronounced "Toliver".
 
Youse blokes wanna have a crack at these?

Featherstonehaugh

Mainwaring

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(It's "Fenshaw" and "Mannering" -- though we have a footie player here who insists on "Main-ware-ing")
 
Fenshaw? No way! That's the furthest out yet.

Walter there's another popular GA name "Beauchamp". It's pronounced like beech-um. And there's a town in central VA named Buena Vista. They'll throw you out of town if you pronounce it like a proper Spaniard would (bwana veesta, with first 'a' long). It's buna vista.
 
URQUHART - or something like that was one of the allied commanders in "A Bridge Too Far"... howinheck is that pronounced

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Be mentally deliberate but muscularly fast. Aim for just above the belt buckle Wyatt Earp
45 ACP: Give 'em a new navel! BigG
"It is error alone that needs government support; truth can stand by itself." Tom Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1785
We don't have a chaplain here, but I don't view that as any major problem... You can rest assured
that you will not go in that bag until I've said a few appropriate words over you
R. Lee Ermy as Sgt Major Haffner, from The Siege of Firebase Gloria
If you have to shoot a man, shoot him in the guts. It may not kill him... sometimes they die slow, but it'll paralyze his brain and arm and the fight is all but over Wild Bill Hickok
 
Hehehe :) LOL

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Be mentally deliberate but muscularly fast. Aim for just above the belt buckle Wyatt Earp
45 ACP: Give 'em a new navel! BigG
"It is error alone that needs government support; truth can stand by itself." Tom Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1785
We don't have a chaplain here, but I don't view that as any major problem... You can rest assured
that you will not go in that bag until I've said a few appropriate words over you
R. Lee Ermy as Sgt Major Haffner, from The Siege of Firebase Gloria
If you have to shoot a man, shoot him in the guts. It may not kill him... sometimes they die slow, but it'll paralyze his brain and arm and the fight is all but over Wild Bill Hickok
 
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