>>38369939Its because of all the times we were invaded and shit. When you had the original celts living here, Romans invading, Saxons... Vikings etc you end up with place names derived from each place.
And all of those places had different languages. So place names in the UK are a weird fucking melting pot of different pronunciations.
I think at least I'm fucking stupid and am probably grossly over-simplifying it. I know fuck all about history please kill me. 