>>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. :-)

The one in Virginia, near Virginia Beach, has local variations including "Norfuck," "Orruh," "Nork" and a couple of others.

I am also reminded of the city name Newark. For the one in New Jersey, it's basically one syllable (sounds like "Nork"). For the one Delaware -- an immediately adjacent state -- it's not just two syllables; the two syllables are pronounced with such emphasis on distinction that it sounds like two words ("New Ark").

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