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then you have Cirencester - pronounced Sirensister by the locals! or you can always have it's Roman name - Corinium - much easier to say!
Gloucester was Glevum London seems the only one not to have changed that much - Londinium to London!

It's places like Llasnhsthffoghtdes that get me! (Have no idea of what I have just typed - it just looked a bit welsh!

Hunstanton=Hunston

Restronguet= Rest Strong Git

To follow something said on Page 2, my mother pronounced misled as in drizzled for years, she had never heard it pronounced only seen it written.

Tgen of course there is that old favourite, lingerie, which produces lingering looks.

Antique = (pron) anti-queue

cj wrote:Antique = (pron) anti-queue

???

Surely it is Ann-teak

ok, how about miscellaneous, pronounced Miss - kell - an - os by my family for years

and Wymondham in Norfolk really is pronounced Windham

DavebytheSea wrote:

cj wrote:Antique = (pron) anti-queue

???

Surely it is Ann-teak

Er, yes, but I look at it and always say it anti-queue, like mer-in-gue. It's supposed to be funny, DBTS.

We always say 're-ply-ker' for replica, after the great Roland Rat on TV-AM. That's intended to be funny too, DBTS!!

well, i thought so Catherine; knowing you a little bit I thought you probably mispronounced it intentionally. We do the same on certain words in this family. Worse, however, is that we use words incorrectly as well as mispronounced - e.g we heat our food in a microphone etc.

However we do argue about the pronounciation of some words especially as my wife's ancestry is Lancastrian. Bath is a word she is unable to pronounce correctly as is Honiton in Devon and Coventry in the West Midlands; she insists that, in the first syllable, the verb should be pronounced as in scone.

cj wrote: We always say 're-ply-ker' for replica, after the great Roland Rat on TV-AM. That's intended to be funny too, DBTS!!

Please remember that I have it on the finest authority that I do not have a sense of humour (see previous postings, etc et al)

what verb?

and how do you pronounce Coventry and Honiton??

Bath has no R in it so its a short a . (yes I`m a northener too - and proud of it!!)

not verb, in our family when we say verb, we nearly always mean vowel.

I know this misuse of language makes it hard for strangers to comprehend what we are on about, but this does not really matter as we have little idea ourselves.

ah, that would explain it then!

DavebytheSea wrote:

cj wrote: We always say 're-ply-ker' for replica, after the great Roland Rat on TV-AM. That's intended to be funny too, DBTS!!

Please remember that I have it on the finest authority that I do not have a sense of humour (see previous postings, etc et al)

However we do argue about the pronounciation of some words especially as my wife's ancestry is Lancastrian. Bath is a word she is unable to pronounce correctly as is Honiton in Devon and Coventry in the West Midlands; she insists that, in the first syllable, the verb should be pronounced as in scone.

Yes, I'm sorry, I forgot! Reading it that scone rhymes with 'on', Honiton and Coventry can both be pronounced thus. Why would anyone think any other way. I do remember someone pronouncing Arundel as 'A-run-dell'. She too was from up north. We have a special word in our family for trouser pockets; 'trockets', so simple and succinct.

Swooshy-wooshy = bubble bath