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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: Names #111427 09/05/03 07:00 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk D dodyskin addict dodyskin addict D Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk Blackley, pronounced Blay'lih Bacup, pronounced bay'cup Whalley Range, pronounced wolly rainj, as opposed to the beginning of Whalley, pronounced waily London, pronounced either landan ( south) or lundun (north) Mousehole, pronounced mowzull Gloucester, pronounced glostuh Llangollen, I spose that doesn't really count seeing as it is a different language. Beswick, pronounced bezzik Durham, pronounced durrem Shrewsbury, pronounced shrozeb'ree ( there is some debate about this though) Happisburg, pronounced hazeburra Derby, darbee Leicester, lestuh ( cester is is just stuh almost always) Salisbury, sorlsbree Greenwich, grennich ( and a thousand others, basically, one never prounces the w, although there are exceptions) Scone, scoon Wymondham, win dum Yarmouth, pronounced yarmuth ( any mouth endings are usually uth, and ton endings usually tun, er is usually ar- Berkshire=Barkshuh, and that's another thing, shire is never shire but shuh **edit, or sheer in Yorkshire**unless it is at the beginning of the name ,bury is usually berry or bree apart from Bury which is Burry to everyone from around Bury and Berry to those from the place) Wapping, pronounced woppin ( there again you see, if the first vowel is an a then it is often prounced as an o) Wilbraham pronounced willbrum ( nearly all names have dropped the a-ham business as most of them have dropped or merged en le, except of course Chapel-en-le-Frith) Have you noticed that all these pronounciations are pretty much what you get if you say the name quickly a few times. I think in England at least it is more unusual to find places that sound exactly as they are spelt. I thought of a few ( a very few), listed below: Chorlton-cum-Hardy ( well maybe the ton is more like tun) Manchester York Blackburn Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names #111428 09/05/03 08:33 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 10 Canada E E.E.S stranger E.E.S stranger E Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 10 Canada I have heard Ballyvaughan (Ireland) pronounced both Bally-vuh-hon and Bally-von, but I'm not sure which is correct. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names #111429 09/05/03 10:55 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Greenpoint(brooklyn) NY-is gr*n purnt green is sort of grin, but the vowel really just a schwa, purnt to rhyme with burnt looking at burnt, i am unsure? is that a correct spelling/ or just how i say burned?...no am sure burnt is a word.. at least in my idolect! my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names #111430 09/05/03 11:14 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Z Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Z Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada He burned it so now it's burnt. (at least in my idiolect) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names #111431 09/06/03 08:21 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Add: Beaconsfield (Beckonsfield) Wycombe (Wickum) Reading (Redding) Slough (rhymes with cow) Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names / name refusals #111432 09/07/03 02:31 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 This brings up another name related thing... Here there is a major road called René Levesque that is called Dorcester by English people over 30. A town named Lac Moreau by the government and Lac St Paul by it's inhabitants and anyone knowing the place. And an autoroute called "the 10" by everybody but actually named "Autoroute of the Eastern Cantons" (oh and our Beaconsfield is actually pronounced Beacon's field :-) ) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names / name refusals #111433 09/07/03 06:51 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Oh NY is like that too, locals always call the avenue --6th Avenue, (its been avenue of the americas of 30 odd years or more) and we take the 59th Street brigde (not The Queensboro bridge) 125th Street is still the main drag of harlem, no matter that its offical name is Martin Luther King Blvd. and don't even get started on the subways! old timers like me know the BMT, the IRT and IND lines, and where they cross. These name are from the old privately owned companies that built and ran the lines-they officially went bankrupt, and those names officially went away before WWII! They are finally beginning to disappear, and only old timers know and refer to them. the newest NYer's and tourist do things like refer to the 'red line' (the west side irt line in manhattan is coded red on the newest maps) i might call the line the 1 (and 9) or the broadway local, but the 'red line'? where do they think they are? my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names / name refusals #111434 09/08/03 01:16 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta In reply to: (oh and our Beaconsfield is actually pronounced Beacon's field :-) ) So's ours by people who don't come from round there. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names / name refusals #111435 09/08/03 02:53 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park and NY's (Long Island NY!) Hempstead Turnpike is Hemp stead (hemp like the fiber, and stead as in 'good stead') NYC's Houston Street is HOW ston, but that city in Texas is Hue sten.(YARTING, i know) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Names #111436 09/08/03 03:27 AM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 171 Hawaii, USA J JohnHawaii member JohnHawaii member J Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 171 Hawaii, USA I recalled this classic from my stay in England: "Featherstonehaux", pronounced "Fanshaw." When I did a quick search to confirm the spelling, I found this web entry that says the word "fanshaw" is used to define words which are pronounced differently than spelled. http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_fanshaw.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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