Seriously, How Do You Pronounce 'Falmer'?

[Tesco in Disguise]

i was gonna post this poll soon but noticed perseus had beaten me to it. but he has messed it right up. all my mates (virtually none of whom are brighton fans) all pronounce it as you would 'farmer'. is this right or is 'fal-mer' the correct way? many thanks.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It's Falmer.

More to the point, how do you pronounce Moulsecoomb?

And how do you spell it?

 

[perseus]

No it ain't

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Having spent my younger life growing up on the Falmer Road - we always pronounced it Falmer. Like the jeans. Of course there may be another way - it is just that I never heard it.

 

[CHAPPERS]

It's Falmer.

More to the point, how do you pronounce Moulsecoomb?

And how do you spell it?

You have splet if correctly.

Mole-scoomb.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Having spent my younger life growing up on the Falmer Road - we always pronounced it Falmer. Like the jeans. Of course there may be another way - it is just that I never heard it.

As in 'going down the Falmer Road... '?

 

[perseus]

Having spent my younger life growing up on the Falmer Road - we always pronounced it Falmer. Like the jeans. Of course there may be another way - it is just that I never heard it.

Which side of the road did you live on?

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Brighton side - Rottingdean end.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

As in 'going down the Falmer Road... '?

Well that is a song I will enjoy singing ........

I did used to have a football fantasy that there would be a stadium in Rottingdean - using the Downs as a one stand. In my mind it all worked - and there were no transport/bat issues either.

 

[perseus]

Brighton side - Rottingdean end.

I'm a west side myself. Therefore, we pronounce it differently.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Brighton side is the west side .............

 

[Dave the OAP]

have a load of answers dissapeared from this thread?

 

[perseus]

i was gonna post this poll soon but noticed perseus had beaten me to it. but he has messed it right up. all my mates (virtually none of whom are brighton fans) all pronounce it as you would 'farmer'. is this right or is 'fal-mer' the correct way? many thanks.

Fawmer 1607 is a fallacy. The earlier Old English etymon of Fæl mere is better.

Does get over the problem of not being actually in Falmer.

On one side of the main road the villagers can call it Fawmer, when we know it is really Falmer where the stadium is planned for. Just depends on which side of the road you are on.

Or the railway station, one side is Fawmer for Sussex Uni and Falmer for Brighton Uni. No problem really.

 

[perseus]

PS:

How was Falmer pronounced at the Public Inquiries?

 

[Wozza]

Perseus is pronounced "ker-unt" - it's true.

 

[Lush]

At Falmer School we prounced it "Foul - ma and what's it to f**king you?"

 

[perseus]

It is in the medieval records as being pronounced fawmer or fahmer.

The etymon of fæl in the first record of the word mean fallow-coloured and this matches up with the local geology.

Nobody uses the pronounciation fawmer unless they are being pretentious. I have instinctively used Fow(l)-ma. (Sounds more like the modern Brighton acccent to me.)

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

well as I say, when we lived on Falmer Road, we and everyone else called it Falmer. Like the jeans.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Mole-scoomb.

MOLE-scoomb or Moles-COOMB ?

 

[perseus]

well as I say, when we lived on Falmer Road, we and everyone else called it Falmer. Like the jeans.

I am not sure how to pronouce the jeans?