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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #36 on: Monday 01 August 11 21:20 BST (UK) »
Hope I don`t offend anyone but a lot of southerners -- including Jeremy Paxman --say sickth instead of sixth, and fith instead of fifth.
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And do they say   Baath   and not   Bath?
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #37 on: Monday 01 August 11 21:37 BST (UK) »
My daughter-in-law-to-be comes from 'oop thar' and my son is picking it up from her ... 'bath', instead of his normal 'barth', and of course, 'path' instead of 'parth' ...
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #38 on: Monday 01 August 11 21:50 BST (UK) »

  .............and Twelth instead of Twelfth, strenth instead of strength (my mother's pet hate), Viktoria
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #39 on: Monday 01 August 11 22:01 BST (UK) »
Harrietsham in Kent is pronounced Harsham

Is it?  I've lived 5 minutes down the road from it for 20 years, and I've never heard it pronounced as such  ???
Rogers: Sussex
Sanders/Saunders: Brenchley, Kent
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Aldridge and Aldridge/Hayden
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #40 on: Monday 01 August 11 22:23 BST (UK) »
Hope I don`t offend anyone but a lot of southerners -- including Jeremy Paxman --say sickth instead of sixth, and fith instead of fifth.
 Viktoria.
 

And do they say   Baath   and not   Bath?

Surely the correct pronunciation of a place name is the way the locals pronounce it.  Bath is thus one place name which northerners pronounce incorrectly even if they need to call the place they wash by a different name.
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #41 on: Monday 01 August 11 22:35 BST (UK) »
There needs to be  some uniformity  and good diction,  otherwise when people stopped to ask for directions  in a different region  to where they normally lived,  you would not be able to understand those directions.
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #42 on: Tuesday 02 August 11 09:33 BST (UK) »
There needs to be  some uniformity  and good diction, 

DOOWAAH ?

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Adam : Criggie : Davidson : Freeman : Jeamie : Lownie : Mackie : Pittendreigh : Ritchie
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #43 on: Tuesday 02 August 11 10:40 BST (UK) »
From near where I grew up in Somerset:
Congresbury - pronounced Congs-bree by locals!!
Naish Hill - Nash Hill - that's the hill on the M5 where the caravans cause problems!  ;D
Hatch Beauchamp - Hatch Beecham

And from where I then lived, Isle of Man, we have:

Ballaugh - pronounced Bal-laff
but Maughold - pronounced Mack-old?!
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #44 on: Tuesday 02 August 11 13:40 BST (UK) »
Here's another couple....

Heather in Leicestershire...pronounced Heether
Belvoir Castle...pronounced Beaver
Whitwick in Leicestershire...pronounced Wittick
Groby in Leicestershire...pronounced Grew-bee

In the same neck of the woods, there's Zouch, just north of Loughborough, which is pronounced 'Zotch', unlike Ashby de la Zouch, where it's 'Zoosh'. And then there's Gotham on the bus route between Loughborough and Nottingham (can't remember whether it's in Leics or Notts), which is Goat-um, not like Gotham City. And you can always spot a local when they talk about Coalville, Leics -- they'll put the stress as CoalVILLE, whereas everyone else says COALville.

Then there's Loughborough itself, which always causes a headache when you're trying to say where you live to people who've never heard of it. Alongside the possibly apocryphal story of an Australian trying to buy a train ticket to 'Loogabarooga', I can personally vouch for the fact that an American asked me in all seriousness whether the town I lived in was really called 'Lowbrow'.