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Post by tom on Nov 23, 2023 8:34:44 GMT
Barnstable is another I cant get right.
Soutthampton drink a lot of T.
There must be many more.
There is of course the classic one that people from the south get wrong.
Bernighum
or Berninum.
There are many variations on this.
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Post by will on Nov 23, 2023 8:50:48 GMT
It's been well documented that Americans struggle with names like Worcester and Leicester, but there's a fair few places down here that Brits have trouble with.
For instance, Sarah and I got married in Combeinteignhead and I played a couple of years for Stokeinteignhead Cricket Club. Yesterday the Radio 2 travel woman kept reporting problems in the area of, as she called it, Uh Pottery - the village is called Upottery and is pronounced "up ottery".
And then there is my lovely town and its little neighbour Shaldon. Almost all of my Brummie friends can't help calling that village "Sheldon", and the town gets called Tynemouth (another place altogether), Tanemouth and Teenmouth.
Whereas everyone down here knows that it's called "TINMUFF"!
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Post by Su on Nov 24, 2023 10:02:22 GMT
There's a street in Doncaster that I can never get my head around - or should that be my tongue
St Sepulchre Gate - just wrong !
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Post by mulv on Nov 24, 2023 11:29:51 GMT
Coedpoeth
Should be coyd-poyth
Most English say co-ed po-eth
Locals say c'poyth
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Post by mulv on Nov 24, 2023 13:49:26 GMT
And don't get me started on Rhosllanerchrhygog!
When I started at college I endured a few smirks from the locals for pronouncing the local village of Acrefair as it appeared to be - ayker-fair. Of course, I was pronouncing it as it's read in English. It's actually akruh-vire.
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