Is it the same reason as Worcestershire mapped to "wooster" ?

Well, I wouldn't piss on the British for that, when Louisville is pronounced "LOO-vul" and not "Lou-iss-ville".

And don't get me started on Des Moines, Boise, La Jolla (at least that has an excuse), Spokane, Versailles, Tucson, Willamette, ...

And the worst of all: Arkansas.

Plymouth -> plee-mooth not ply-mouth

foobarian 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Outsider! :-)

More like PLIM-uth. I guess there is no way to write it unambiguously in English

	▲	coldtea an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		maybe "Pleemuth"?
	▲	loloquwowndueo 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not outsider - non-native speaker.

drdec 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I hope you aren't talking about the one in Massachusetts which is not pronounced either of those ways

	▲	loloquwowndueo 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, im talking about this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_(software)
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gib444 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Plymouth, England is PLIM-uth

	▲	avadodin an hour ago \| parent [-]
		PLI-muth?