How do I get siri to recognise my town?

I live in Poole, in Dorset, England. Siri reckons I'm saying 'pool' as in swimming pool!
I know siri is supposed to learn, but how do I help him along?

Well I've tried that, and I've persevered with it because I know Siri sort of learns. Siri will happily find Bournemouth, it'll happily find London, it will happily find almost every other town I have tried, bizarrely even those that I know I'm pronouncing wrong. I don't have a speech defect. My wife reckons I have a 'generosity with money' defect and a hearing defect, in fact a whole list, but she will confirm that my speech is OK, it's fine, it's in fact one of my best points, and I don't even have a strong regional accent. I am, however, British, which may confuse matters.
Siri, however, resolutely refuses to understand I'm sayin 'Poole'. Siri assumes when I say that word I'm talking about 'pool' as in 'swimming pool' or 'motor pool'. Even as I dictate, Siri can't work out I'm using the letter 'p', Siri thinks I'm using the letter 'c' so it sounds like 'cool'. There are no cinemas around here in pools. Nor restaurants in 'cool'.
I could understand this, it's a natural confusion. But Siri frequently insists on using the word 'Congo'. Now that doesn't sound anything like my home town, and I'm not really interested in restaurants and cinemas in the Congo. Generally I'm finding Siri very useful, and quite an impressive bits of technology. But I must admit I'm becoming frustrated that anything involving my own hometown is beyond him or her. My wife thinks I'm bonkers, because she sees that I'm looking for things in the Congo; this could lead other wives to believe that their husband was planning to leave them and live in the jungle.
Have I no hope of improvement? Is there no light at the end of the tunnel?
Or should I move to Africa, would that be cheaper and easier?
That last comment is based upon my hopeless quest for a resolution of my Airport Express issues, the cost of which which I have now written off as a sort of 'Apple Tax', and the grief and sorrow over my expenditure on the thing is beginning to subside.

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