a quick question for the britishes

"lanca-sher" fyi

aye

thankig u

Dionne Warrick

Why dont you fat, ugly, stupid drunks eat a salad some time and maybe get some sun?

-- bato (bato), Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:36 AM

learning from history

lol

Lanca-sher or Lanca-shear depending on whether you are a Northerner or Southerner. Never Lanca-shyre.

four thousand holes in blackburn lancashire

lucifer over lancashire-ah

'throatwarbler mangrove'

I wonder why it's 'Yorkshireman' and 'Lancastrian'. I suppose 'Lancashireman' is a bit of a mouthful.

I HEARD THAT RUMOUR

worcestershire? as in worcestershire sauce

i say woost-uh-shur

Also, Americans please never refer to any county as "shy-er". That shit is really annoying.

are they pronounced 'shurs' or something?

Pretty much.

even that is too many syllables, as i recently found out! real britishers say "wooster sauce" why because they are lazy

xposts

Merkins, please pronounce Kirkcudbrightshire

i say woost-uh-shur

Worcester sauce is actually made in Worcester, so the shire is a bit redundant. Worst job I ever had (for 5 days) was tightening the lids on the bottles in Lea & Perrins factory. Fucking reeked, couldn't touch the stuff for about 2 years after.

id like to call it wooster sauce but i dont know if i can get away with that in america

WILL EXPERIMENT

ker-kud-bdhite-shedh

colonel, shirely you jest

They'd just started using plastic bottles instead of glass and the lid-tightening machine didn't work properly, so they employed people to go round manually tightening them.

Is that the Hebrew spelling? (xp)

Bicester and Towcester to thread

Ly-chester Square

"Where are we?" asked the American woman on the train. "Berrick upon Tweed", I helpfully replied. "Oh yes", she said, seeing the sign, "Ber-wick upon Tweed".

a-burst-with

let's leave the welsh out of this. by "this" i mean, pretty much, everything.

'Ed-in-burger

Loogabarooga Junction.

i had been saying lanca-shear but will change to lanca-sher

'Ed-in-burger

No no, Edin-BORO. And, after the fashion of Mos-COW, Glass-GOW.

edin brah, ya know dat

I'm never sure whether to say 'GLASgow' or 'GLARSgow'.

GLAS-GEE

Glesga. Embra.

(xxxxxpost) is that in Australia?

GLAZ-GAY

Whores-ham

SCUNTHORPE

i say 'shear'

I do too, but I'm a southern softie.

sheerly, you are?

indeed, I'm from Oxford-shear.

Shrewsbury or Shrowsberry?

ShrOHsbree

shrowsberry

barth or baff?

Guildford

Fowey
Berkshire

Milngavie
Avoch
Culross

Milngavie! My favourite.

I dunno the other two...

Avoch = Och
Culross = Coo-riss

I can never remember Milngavie, I had to read it out in a quiz once, read it like it's spelled and got promptly corrected by a Scottish dude.

Never remember Glenmorangie either.

Mill-GUY
GlenMORangie

Isn't it more Mull-GUY?

Two old relics that get trotter out every time we do this:

Belvior
Featherstonehaugh

trotted

TROTTER OUT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_in_English_with_non-intuitive_pronunciations

Okay surnames: Greenhalgh.

That's pronounced Greenhaush.

I know two people who have that surname and they pronounce it in completely different ways:

green - hall
green-halsh

Yeah Green-halsh is more like it.

Here's a good one for tourists - Belvoir.

Loughborough = Loogaborooga.

Althorpe

Is the "voi" part of "Belvoir" in a French stylee?

My fave has always been Caldmore in Walsall.

Hmm. Yeah that sounds good, too.

Alnwick Castle, Northumberland

Pronounced as per the first two syllables of "Anarchy"

Is the "voi" part of "Belvoir" in a French stylee?

-- Bimble, Friday, 18 July 2008 10:34 (Friday, 18 July 2008 10:34) Bookmark Link

That would be far too sensible.

Anstruther
Gilshochill

Belvoir does of course come from the French but for some reason probably to do with people called Cholmondeley-Featherstonehaugh it has become 'Beaver'.

I always thought Lewes was obvious until someone pronounced it 'lose' to me yesterday.

Althorpe

-- Dr.C, Friday, 18 July 2008 10:32 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

The only people who pronounce this counter-intuitively are Americans and Earl Spencer though.

Findochty is a good one because the town planners of Erskine (town in Renfrewshire) decided to name streets after villages/towns on the Moray coast, so you have Portessie, Cullen, etc, also Findochty. Which, as a town is pronounced FinECHty, but no-one told the people who made, oversee, or live in Erskine, who all pronounce it the way you would intuitively do so had you never heard of Findochty the place.

It's only locals who pronounce Anstruther as Ainster though, isn't it?

Loughborough = Loogaborooga.

I'm going to start pronouncing it like that. Makes it sound more exciting.

Althorpe, Lincolnshire is pronounced how it's spelled.

Oops, I just realised Aldo already did Belvoir and Fanshaw or Fenshaw or Festonhuff...sorry.

How does Spencer pronounce Althorpe? I can't imagine another way of saying nit other than All Thorpe? Have I been saying it wrong too? I met his father once you know. Tried to sell me a book.

"Al-trop"

It's only locals who pronounce Anstruther as Ainster though, isn't it?

I dunno, I've never heard it pronounced as it's spelled by anyone of the easty-coasty persuasion, but maybe (a) that's what you meant by locals or (b) I've been hanging about with the Wrong Sort.

My friend says he actually heard that Loogabarooga one from an Australian in a pub. Sounds too lolworthy to be true imo.

"Al-trop"

The upper classes just make this stuff up as they go along don't they?

I am not offended Ned.

Ainster is Ainster pretty much across Fife, so not just locals. See also Finechty.

That's sort of what I meant by locals. Sorry for not being specific enough. It's not Ainster universally, is what I meant.

Findochty is Finechty wherever you go, or should be, unless you are a stupid town planner with a map and no clue.

Goole is pronounced "Ohjesusshootmeinthefacenowplease"

Hey, leave Goole alone, I had one of the Top 10 best fish'n'chips in my life there. Also they've just lost their favourite dentist.

Barbara Goddard, the practice receptionist, said: "Everybody loves Mr Modi - he'll be missed. I've never met such a lovely man."

You should have read the Haltemprice and Howden by-election thread.

(btw NV, we had a great time at Forbidden Corner yesterday)

ClArkenwell drives me nuts, for some reason.

xpost cool, the weather wasn't too bad yesterday was it? I dearly need to get out into the countryside somewhere, this Stygian gloom cobblers is killing me.

It was just a little bit drizzly now and again, but apart from that, ideal.

Just how we britishes like it.

Do people still pronounce Holbourn Hoe-bun?

I try to but I always forget.

I always thought Lewes was obvious until someone pronounced it 'lose' to me yesterday

Don't worry, that someone was wrong. It's pronounced like Inspector Morse's sidekick.