>The town I grew up in (moved there just in time to start kindergarten
>and graduated high school from) was Norfolk Nebraska. I'm fairly
>certain I was the only member of my graduating class to actually
>consistently say Nor-folk. The vast majority of the roughly 20K
>population used Nor-fork.

The UK one is pronounced Nor-fork or Nor-f@k depending on how rhotic the speaker is; I suspect that's the cause of the above. :-)

S.