Have I been saying this football team wrong all my life?

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Horsted Keynes (Kanes) rather than Milton Keynes (keens) - never got that

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Newcastle or Newcassell as most commentators say it nowadays.

 

[Sheebo]

It's Berry - not up for debate. If the people from Bury want to pronounce it wrong that's their look-out...

 

[Dick Head]

Isfield.

Is-field or I-field?

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Goozbery or Gooooooseberry

 

[spence]

Slaugham often gets said wrong in my books.

So does Cuckfield

 

[Spicy]

Yep. Burry.

Incidentally ... Berwick in East Sussex is correctly pronounced "Bur-wick".

Agree with Burry.

As to Berwick, I have always pronounced it Berrick!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Molesc'm or Moolsc'm?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Toffee or toffay?

 

[LamieRobertson]

Toffee or toffay?

filling extractor

 

[AnotherArch]

We can't even say the same pronounciation within my family. We have at least three varying pronounciations of "bath", "bus" and "bun", from the wife (Manc), the lads (Sth Yorks childhood) and me (Mouwskoom). I believe it is your childhood/ early teen years that form how you speak and it does not change much after that. My sons prove that it is people who you spend more time with that affect the dialect rather than the parents. Whilst I may have picked up the local sayings after over 40 years in the north, I still say the word as I always would, which means that if I ask for a "butty" I am often not understood.
On the other hand I often have fun getting the locals to say "Arundel", "Steyning" and "Lewes", then throwing in "Fulking" and "Cuckfield" for good measure.

 

[BlockDpete]

I know of "Outsiders" who pronounce Lewes as "Loos"

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Ant or DEC?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

My other half pronounces Ansty as "Anstee".

Then again, he's a lot better at pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch than I am, so, you know...

 

[GT49er]

I know of "Outsiders" who pronounce Lewes as "Loos"

.....not to mention all the southerners who don't know it's actually Cree-wee Alexandra!

 

[Eddiespearritt]

Bosh...ham or Boz...ham ?

Of course it is pretentiously BOZZAM not BOSHAM whereas just down the road it is COSHAM pronounced, well er, COSHAM.

As for Berry - it is Berry unless you live north of Stafford perhaps where it becomes Brr-i - because its so bloody cold up norf.

 

[Eddiespearritt]

And while we are at it - my wife is not English - but is a mother-tongue English speaker from the colonies. She cannot get her head around Worcester, Gloucester or Leicester - doesn't appreciate Mr Cholmondeley-Warner and can't deal with the surname Farquhar.

 

[Juan Albion]

Northerners in sounding different to us shocker.

Except the commentator clearly wasn't a northerner. That's what confused me.

 

[fat old seagull]

Of course it is pretentiously BOZZAM not BOSHAM whereas just down the road it is COSHAM pronounced, well er, COSHAM.

As for Berry - it is Berry unless you live north of Stafford perhaps where it becomes Brr-i - because its so bloody cold up norf.

Isn't that cheese?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

What did the big tomato say to the little tomato?


Ketch up!