Ain't Nobody Here Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Would Ullapool be a name you would all know how to pronounce? I heard Steve Wright say "Oolapool" yesterday . (Most of these names you're mentioning, I wouldn't have a clue .) How about Tighnabruaich or Auchtermuchty ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 You want to try Norfolk for dappy name pronounciations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 We often go there (and Suffolk) to visit my brother & sister . No doubt if I said any of the names out loud there would be huge guffaws of laughter from the locals . (One of our favourite pastimes is reading out the placenames on the map to the family in the car . ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaPoule Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 We live not far from Lacock and Frome, but it's the names of my childhood that can be harder to figure out: Alford Peterculter Chapel of Garioch Lacock = Laycock Frome = Froom Alford = Aford (A as in apple) Peterculter = Petercooter Chapel of Garioch = Chapelo Gairy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 OH goes to Froom a fair bit! Not far from here is Alresford - pronounced Alls ford (or even allsfd). When I used to work in Ascot those trying to be posh would say Ass cawt - when it should be Ascut. My grandparents lived in Poulner (near Ringwood) - we always called it Poolna, but it should have been Powlna. So does anyone know if Romsey is Romzee or Rumzy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 So does anyone know if Romsey is Romzee or Rumzy? Romzee, as far as I know But then I am from Surree originally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Well I'm glad, Christian, because that's how I say it, but years ago when Mountbatten was killed, the news reporters (bar one) called it Rumzy and we got a bit irritated. It's only reading this thread that I began to wonder if we had it wrong. Me is from Surree too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Nice name change Egluntyne! I used to live near Heysham, a place often mentioned on the traffic news. I get annoyed when they always report it as Haysham, when it should be 'eeshem' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poachedegg Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 When I worked for United Utilities there were a couple of areas we covered with strange pronunciation - Worsley Mesnes (pronouned Mains) and Gateacre (Gat-i-ker). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 There is a place near Mums in Sunny Tamworth called Fazeley. Mum used to travel down to see Dad, and always thought it was called Fazzellie. buts its called Faze-lee. Dad hadnt a clue what she was talking about at first . There is a place up here called Ingleby Barwick (pronounced exactly as it looks - I recon it should be pronounced barrick and then there is Hartlepool - called Hart-Lee-Pool, not hartle-pool (as I thought when I first came here ) Egluntyne - love the new spelling cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 My dad always insisted on calling Ilfracombe - Ill frack umby - but he just did that to amuse us kiddies. One of his favourite places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early Bird Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Try moving to Sheffield and struggling with the pronunciation of Beauchief or Greenhill. Want to guess? I'd guess at Greenhill being something along the lines of 'Grin'll' or 'Gren'll' but I'm likely miles off and I wouldn't care to imagine Beauchief. I look forward to seeing the real phonetics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Every time I come back to the forum something changes last time there were and now there are actual icons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 There is a village in Cheshire called Peover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Pronounced Peaver. My Dad's great Aunt Sarah used to live Little Peover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 My dad always insisted on calling Ilfracombe - Ill frack umby - but he just did that to amuse us kiddies. One of his favourite places. When we lived in Morecambe we called it Morry-cam-bee. Talking of mashing words, I used to work with an old pharmacist who mixed all his own lotions and potions. He took great delight in sending me to the store room for a bottle of sodium bikker-bonnet (sodium bicarbonate) It was quite amusing at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Elgu teen to me too. Egluntyne sounds all posh & oldie & I assure you she is not oldie! She might be posh tho? Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Common as muck, me , but there has always been an 'n' in the middle of my name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Once my mum asked dad to write Elastoplast on the shopping list, so he wrote Lasticalplastical. She couldn't find it and asked the shop assistant for lasticalplastical before she realised it - she knew what it was supposed to be but didn't stop in time. She was very embarrassed and did dad get it in the ear afterwards. Oh and Beaminster (which we always referred to as Beeminster) = Beminster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyknickers Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 We have a few around here too (essex) Theydon Bois (I say 'boys' but no idea if it should me 'bwa') Ugley - pronounced Oojley Beaulieu Park (i say Bu-leigh but some say such funny things) Bicknacre - its said like bick-nay-ker but LOTS of people say 'Bick-a-nay-ker'. Not a place name but my own name, some people say Me-shell and not m-shell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chookiehen Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Elgu teen to me too. Egluntyne sounds all posh & oldie & I assure you she is not oldie! She might be posh tho? Emma.x Always been Eglu-tyne to me. Like Eglentine Price (Angela Landsbury) in Bedk"Ooops, word censored!"s and Broomsticks! In fact, I'd be most disturbed if that illusion was ever shattered, and I discovered that Egluntyne wasn't in fact, a young Angela Landsbury! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Ahh, but that was Eglantine Price, spelled the same way as the rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chookiehen Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Ahh, but that was Eglantine Price, spelled the same way as the rose Not according to Imdb, but different websites have different spellings. http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0089749/ Anyway, my point was, everytime I see her name, it reminds me of the character. I love the thought of a 'witchy' (in a good way!) Egluntyne watching over the forum, twitching her nose, and chanting incantations to get us all to behave! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 How else do you think moderators exercise their powers! It IS Theydon 'Boys', mazzy, but my friends and I always pronounce it the French way just to make it sound pretentious. I love Ugley though - imagine if you were a member of the Ugley Women's Institute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 I like that Olly Whenever we're out and about, Rosie does the navigating and regales us from the back seat with daft place names that she's found in the road atlas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
