This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names. These common suffixes have these regular pronunciations, yet would be counterintuitive (irregular) in normal English: * -b(o)rough and -burgh – /bərə/ * -bury – /bri/ * -cester – /stər/ * -combe, -coombe, -comb and -cambe – /kəm/. When stand-alone: always /kuːm/ (including in place names such as Castle Combe and Coombe Bissett) * -ford – /fərd/ * -gh – silent (usually, as 'f' in a considerable minority of northern English place names and in Woughton, Milton Keynes) * -ham – /əm/ * -holm(e) – /hoʊm/, /əm/ * -mouth – /məθ/ * -on as first syllable is usually as in London, Coningsby or Tonbridge (see Middle English handwriting preventing 'un' and 'um'); excludes a few such as Lonsdale * -shire – /ʃər/, /ʃɪər/, /ʃaɪər/ (