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Forget transfers windows and relegation. Many friends and colleagues are calling Bournemouth Bourne-mouth, Portsmouth Ports-mouth, Plymouth Ply-mouth etc.
Why? It is both incorrect and longer? The possibility of Americanism? Or just idiots with no sense of history?
Anyway it needs to stop. Now. You sound like tw@ts.
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The orthodox are always orthodox, regardless of the orthodoxy.
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 16:50 - Feb 2 with 2317 views
Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.
Helps a lot...very interesting thank you. It seems that there is no real 'right answer' then with some of these places. Another that comes to mind is North of the border, grEEnock morton or grennock morton.
My local favourite in N Lancs where I live now is a small village about 10 miles away called Oakenclough, pronounced locally as Clew, although it is so remote and unpopulated there are hardly any locals left to know what to call it. Then again there are three Claughtons in Lancashire I know of, one pronounced Claffton, one Clourrton and one Clyton
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 08:30 - Feb 3 with 2215 views
Kent is good source of strange ones too as I learnt when I worked down there in the late 70s. Wrotham is pronounced root-em and Meopham is pronounced Mepp-em. Another I came across more up your neck of the woods where I did some work a couple of years ago was Barnoldswick which I heard someone call Barlick.
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 08:55 - Feb 3 with 2204 views
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A mate took a girl out from there and the first thing her mother wanted to know was how he pronounced it. Apparently Shroozebury didn't go down that well.
Some of the american pronunciations are quite shocking the amount of times I've tried to fix people saying 'Worcestershire', only to have some mates goad me at saying things-- despite them being correct.
Bill Bryson pointed out in his Notes from a Big Country I think that Norwich in new England used to be pronounced Norritch, similar to the city in Norfolk, UK. In recent decades incomers from other states have called it Nor-which and this has now become the accepted form.
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of on 16:32 - Feb 3 with 2112 views
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never seen that before, very good 