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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #63 on: Wednesday 03 August 11 20:47 BST (UK) »
I have been wondering how to pronounce Kilconquhar Shoosh,up till now I thought I had family from Kill-con-queue-haar ;D
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #64 on: Thursday 04 August 11 08:08 BST (UK) »
Ah'm still workin on Seoras!      Skoosh.

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #65 on: Thursday 01 September 11 21:51 BST (UK) »
Leighlin Bridge in Co Carlow Ireland is pronounced Loughlin Bridge.
The village of Old Leighlin is also called Old Loughlin.

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Heffernan - Fermoy,Co Cork.
Curtin -Tallow, Co Waterford.
Crowley, Castletownbere, Co Cork
Forbes-Birnie, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Lyall, Sanday Island Orkney.

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #66 on: Thursday 01 September 11 23:07 BST (UK) »
Near me in lancashire we have -

Oswaldtwistle or rather ozzultwisle. The BBC never get this one right.
Salmesbury is Sa(r)msbry (Northerners need the R - Southerners just say A  ;D).
Blackburn, contrary to what outsiders may think, is not said both halves equally. It's not Black-burn it's Blackb'n.
Places with shaw in tend to be shuh like lanshuhbridge (laneshawbridge) and crawshuhbooth (crawshawbooth).
Colne is Cone to people in Blackburn and Accrington but people in Burnley and Colne actually say the L. Somehow. Too close to yorkshire there I think.
Todmorden is Todmuhden not Tod-more-den.
Keighley is Keithley.

I'll confirm Rawtenstall is Rottenstall (or to the young Ro'enstall) and Bury has the same U as burn. Hereabouts we bury the dead and eat berries. They don't have the same sound.
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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #67 on: Friday 02 September 11 00:05 BST (UK) »
    A few jolly limericks on the subject:

There was a young fellow named Cholmondeley,
    Whose bride was so mellow and colmondeley
    That the best man, Colquhoun,
    An inane young bolqufoun,
    Could only stand still and stare dolmondeley.

    The bridegroom's first cousin, young Belvoir,
    Whose dad was a Lancashire welvoir,
    Arrived with George Bohun
    At just about nohun
    When excitement was mounting to felvoir.

    The vicar - his surname was Beauchamp -
    Of marriage endeavoured to teauchamp,
    While the bridesmaid, Miss Marjoribanks,
    Played one or two harjoripranks;
    But the shoe that she threw failed to reauchamp.

    An adventurous pirate named Menzies
    Simultaneously boarded two denzies.
    The Rover, Sir Ralph,
    Said, "Do you think that's salph?
    You don't want to damage your thenzies."

    The Baron of Fawsley, Lord St John,
    Had a fine buckskin coat with a frt john.
    He said, "It was guthven
    Me by Viscount Ruthven,
    Who thinks I'm a cowboy, or t john."

                                      Pinot  :)
   

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #68 on: Friday 02 September 11 08:23 BST (UK) »
Very Good Pinot!

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #69 on: Friday 02 September 11 09:27 BST (UK) »
Skewis (Wales and Scotland), Ayers (Maidenhead, Berkshire), Hildreth (Berkshire)

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #70 on: Friday 02 September 11 15:17 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  ???

I was a bit mystified by that as well and had a sudden moment of panic. Being born in Kent but not of Kentish stock I was worried that I might have have been calling it Harrietsham all these years and had secretly become a laughing stock  :o

Another Kentish one - Wrotham (Rootam)

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Re: Place names ~ Pronunciation, Accents, and problems
« Reply #71 on: Saturday 03 September 11 17:12 BST (UK) »
A variant on the Cholmondeley limerick:

A young man called Cholmondeley Colquhoun
Kept as a pet a babquhoun.
His mother said, "Cholmondeley,
Do you think it quite colmondeley
To feed your babquhoun with a spquhoun?"