Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox If there was a Mancunian citizenship test correctly pronouncing Blackley would surely be one of the questions.
Or Burnage, or Baguley or Bury for that matter. Loads of place names across the region aren't pronounced the way they're written down.
In some cases it's not even close. For a newcomer or a tourist it can be absolutely baffling. So here's our handy guide to those hard-to-pronounce places across Greater Manchester. Blackley: It's not 'Black-ley', that would be too obvious.
It’s actually pronounced 'Blake-ley'. Burnage: Despite recent gentrification the childhood home of the Gallagher brothers is most definitely not 'Burn-arrrj', unless, of course, you
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