Lingerie

Our English SatNav keeps us very well entertained here in France. My favourite is Root Jean (English female pronunciation) d'Arcade. Ma Rachel Fotch, Gay-nay-ral der Gaul, Pa-ree and Row-en. The best one in Spain was the Autopista Radial 4 which was rendered as auto-pissed Radio Four.
But apparently French ones think the M in motorway in England is for Monsieur.

No idea - my mum used to say longeray!

where do you get the 'lon' from???

Mon Dieu Elrel, I'd never have thought of that and I'm a French teacher! I do always say "vin" correctly! But I am guilty of saying "longeray" to myself when in John Lewis or Selfridges.
How did they use to pronounce it in "Are you being served?" I wonder.

I agree about 'lon-jer-ay' Eirel. I don't see that 'lon-jer-ee' is any more difficult to say.

Another French word that I've heard so often on the BBC is the name of the artist 'Degas'. There's no accent on the 'e', so it's 'De-ga' - it isn't Day-ga, which is what I hear.

(I can't help visualising eyes rolling in understandable exasperation - after all, does it really matter?)

Best one near us is Cree-ann-la-RICH.

Our Home Counties satnav recording wanted to send us across Fife via Glen-rowths (harder to say than the right way) and I heard on the radio a request for a tune for someone in that upmarket area Bee-arse-den.

Of course these are Scottish towns, as alien as Milngarvie or Kilconquhar.

Edinborrow, which more often than not is situated in Inglaand

Featherstonehaugh aka Fanshaw !!

Granjura, some US attempts at French words really grate whereas I find Licesstershire and Warwickshire endearing and understandable?

I used to pronounce it lan-jerr-ee but thought I was wrong so have said lon-je-ray for years.

I stand corrected! Back to the old pronunciation!

Not an easy French word to pronounce well for Anglo-Saxons ;)

I've very rarely heard it pronounced it 'correctly' in either the UK or the US, I have to say.