Did the Queen Mother not make exactly this error when naming “Royal Anglian Regiment”….?
The veteran newsreader Reginald Bosanquet once made the same mistake on News at Ten - particularly unfortunate as the news item was about the army's intervention in the religious sectarian Troubles in Northern Ireland
Its Hol - born which drives me bonkers. Even from station staff who work there. There used to an advert on the buses ( and perhaps tubes) in the 60's which laughed at people who didn't say 'Hoh-bn' with no 'l' and a 'schwa' in the second syllable.
There was a whole series of adverts for Cockburn's port using the names of Tube stations to educate the public into how to pronounce the name of their product. So we had not only Hockborn but Co'fosters and Heathrock Central
Two others which foxed me when I first came across them were Ruislip (which I had assumed would be pronounced Roo-ee-slip)
In my track-bashing days Kilmacolm was the end of a branch on Clydeside, closed in 1983 but re-opened as far as Paisley Canal in 1990. In my Sassenach innocence, and to the amusement of the ticket clerk at Glasgow Central, I put the stress on the second syllable instead of the third.
I wasn't caught out by Milngavie though - my first encounter with it was as the start of the West Highland Way, and the guide book helpfully tells you how it's pronounced. Although, being very much the posh end of town in the Victorian era, the Glaswegians described it as the sort of place
"where every household has a slavey* / who's taught to call the place "Milne-Gay-Vee" "
*old-fashioned term for a junior housemaid, skivvy, or maid-of-all work