What does Steine actually mean?

[Lord Bracknell]

But, but, but... I've always called them NEWhaven and SEAf'd. Oooh dear me.

That's Brightonians for you. You probably eat broccolee. Out here, we eat Broccolye (as in Ardingly, Hellingly, etc).

 

[The Large One]

That's Brightonians for you. You probably eat broccolee. Out here, we eat Broccolye (as in Ardingly, Hellingly, etc).

That's terrible.

I HATE broccoli.

 

[perseus]

Brocolli is just a fancy cabbage.

 

[Trufflehound]

Brocolli is just a fancy cabbage.

Or rock 'ard parsley.

 

[Storer68]

This from the BBC web site. Lynne (they are brackets not parantheses) Truss showing the world how much of luvie Brighton resident she is..................................

Inspector Steine
The last programme was on:
Friday 02 March 2007 11:30
By Lynne Truss. 6/6. The Anniversary. It's the five-year anniversary of the Middle Street Massacre.
Archive

 

[Lady Whistledown]

If we're talking about incorrect pronunciation, I've heard loads of travel news presenters refer to Ansty as Ans-tee (see also Ardingly).

It's a y as in "eye" in these Sussex parts! Not as in "tea"!!



PS I used to live in Seaford and we called it Seaf'd, not SeaFORD.

So there

Oh, and is it Pyecum or Pyecooombe?

 

[Gwylan]

Now this has moved on to pronunciation, there are two Sussex places I don't know how to pronounce.: Slaugham - which could be pronounced many ways - and Burpham, is that BURP-ham or BURF-am, I suspect the former.

I'm Sussex born and raised, yet I've never heard anyone pronouce these.

And is the first syllable of Offham, near Lewes pronunced as Off or Oaf?

 

[aftershavedave]

slaugham is sloffam, offham is offham

 

[Storer68]

and I recall that BOdiam should be pronounced Bojiam

 

[Les Biehn]

My mate was coming down from Sheffield and I phonedm to ask where he was and he said he had just gone through Bal-coom-bay. Took me ages to work out he meant Balcombe. You can guess what he was calling Mooz-all-coom-bay.

 

[Trufflehound]

Burpham, is that BURP-ham or BURF-am, I suspect the former.

I've always been led to believe it's BURF-'em.

The George and Dragon there is a cracking little pub with some great beer and THE best pub food I have ever eaten (although it ain't cheap).

 

[hans kraay fan club]

My mate was coming down from Sheffield and I phonedm to ask where he was and he said he had just gone through Bal-coom-bay. Took me ages to work out he meant Balcombe. You can guess what he was calling Mooz-all-coom-bay.

No offence Les, but is your mate a bit of a dick?

 

[perseus]

But how do you pronounce Fowma (Falmer)?

And what does the name mean? Mere = natural pond or boundary stone?

originally: fæl mere

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Re Offham, it's always been Off-ham to me. But I was told once that some of the posher locals prefer Oaf-ham. I've heard two northerners pronouncing Lewes as "Lews".


Where do you put the stress on Hurstpierpoint?

If you stress the "pier" and not the "point", you are stupid and wrong

 

[The Large One]

Where do you put the stress on Hurstpierpoint?

If you stress the "pier" and not the "point", you are stupid and wrong

You're supposed to stress the 'Hurst' to the extent that the locals call the village... Hurst.

 

[Gwylan]

Re Offham, it's always been Off-ham to me. But I was told once that some of the posher locals prefer Oaf-ham.

I always thought it was Off-ham too but in the John Harvey Tavern last year, I heard a bunch of locals say Oaf-ham - they certainly weren't the posh set though.

 

[Lush]

That's Brightonians for you. You probably eat broccolee. Out here, we eat Broccolye (as in Ardingly, Hellingly, etc).

Out here in BIRMINGHAM maybe.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Or rock 'ard parsley.

But is it afraid of honey badgers?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

all northeners seem to find it HILARIOUS when i tell them some of the areas of brighton


"heh heh, solt'DEAN, whot dus thart min lairk?"

 

[Tom Bombadil]

slaugham is sloffam, offham is offham

No it's Slaaff'm

One if my favourite BBC weather mispronounciations was the weather girl who managed to turn Redhill into Reddle.