Phuket is pronounced
FFOOKET. I swear this is true, my brother in law honeymooned there about 5 years ago. And you can guess what tourists call it, and dirty minded postal workers who deliver the holiday postcards, and equally dirty minded small boys running around the house shouting 'FOOKET!! FOOKET!! with imense delight. Behind my town there is a hill named Bleadon, and we used to love saying, as kids, we're going up Bleedin 'ill. Sad parents ... don't try...!
