Place name pronunciations

[On the Left Wing]

On the back of the Falmer thread ... there are some odd pronunciations of place names in this country.

Up here in the North East there is a area called Southwick in Sunderland and another area called Chichester in South Shields.

The Southwick is pronounced exactly as it is back in Sussex (and not as in Southwark as some visitors insist)

But Chichester is prounced Chie - (as in the letter sound of I) -chester

We also have a few Portsmouth roads and the word Albion is used for a load of pubs and streets and other businesses ....

Any more?

 

[Le Premier Cru]

I know of two places in Shropshire. The first, Atcham, is pronounced as it looks - Atch'em.

The second is pronounced Ratch'em, but is actually spelled Rattlinghope.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Westham near Eastbourne is pronounced Westum

 

[Tooting Gull]

There's a place on the A23 that we used to have family arguments about. Slaugham, I think? Yeah, OK we didn't get out much clearly but can anyone shed any light? Much obliged.

 

[Ding Dong !]

Pronounced..........Sloff um

 

[The Large One]

The locals in Offham just outside Lewes apparently pronounce it OAF-ham.

 

[sully]

In Cornwall, there's Mousehole, pronounced Mow-zul, and also Kelynack, pronounced Kly-nak.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Wymundham in Norfolk is pronounced Windham

 

[JJ McClure]

In Cornwall, there's Mousehole, pronounced Mow-zul, .

Nice little place that, went to a cracking fish restaurant there.

 

[Trufflehound]

Croydon (a small village near Purley) is pronounced shitehole.

 

[dougdeep]

And why do S.C.R. always pronounce Bosham wrongly?

 

[tinx]

Yanks refer to Arundel as A RUN DL

 

[Ding Dong !]

Croydon (a small village near Purley) is pronounced shitehole.

 

[virgirlo]

St Austell in Cornwall pronounced Snozzle

 

[Titanic]

Meopham... Meppem
Towcester... Toaster
Happisburgh... HAYES-brrr
Herstmonceux... HURST-mn-zoo

 

[RexCathedra]

Calaias, Maine is pronounced "Callus", rhyming with 'malice'.

 

[Juan Albion]

Woolfardisworthy on the D*&%n/Cornwall border is pronounced Woolsery (some signs now have this also for the tourists who couldn't find it).

London is pronounced LunDern
England is pronounced Ingland for some reason.

 

[dougdeep]

Woolfardisworthy on the D*&%n/Cornwall border is pronounced Woolsery (some signs now have this also for the tourists who couldn't find it).

London is pronounced LunDern
England is pronounced Ingland for some reason.

Thanks Hwarn.

 

[Parson Henry]

Croydon (a small village near Purley) is pronounced shitehole.

 

[On the Left Wing]

And anyone from Sussex is known as DARN SARF ....

and just across the border from us oop north is a Scottish Border town spelt Hawick and pronounced Hoyk