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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 2234 views
The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 16:26 - Feb 2 by Glyn1
Shr - O - sbree or Shr - OOZE - bree?
Genuine question.
Not read the thread then?
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.
The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 14:44 - Feb 2 by karnataka
All old maps show the spelling as Shrowesbury, I have several having lived in Shropshire for 14 years. Spelling on things like maps was usually phonetic as they were done by hand and that was how it had been pronounced for centuries. I don't know when the spelling was finally agreed as Shrewsbury but as soon as it was and started to appear in print, no doubt people started pronouncing it Shroosbury especially those who didn't live there. I certainly heard it called both while I lived near there but it definitely tended to be the older and/or posher types who used the old pronunciation.
Hope this helps :-)
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 2132 views
The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 23:46 - Feb 2 by lancasterswan
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
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 2121 views
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 16:26 - Feb 2 by Glyn1
Shr - O - sbree or Shr - OOZE - bree?
Genuine question.
Shrowsbury = Posh
Shroozebury = The rest of us (well we anyway).
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 2029 views
The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of on 15:44 - Feb 2 by Pegojack
Who the feck's King Leo?
King Leo the Lion?
EDIT:
I wikied it, here's what it says:
The town takes its name from a minster, that is a community of clergy in the district of Lene or Leon, probably in turn from an Old Welsh root lei to flow.[2] Contrary to certain reports, the name has nothing to do with Leofric, an 11th-century Earl of Mercia (most famous for being the miserly husband of Lady Godiva). The Welsh name for Leominster, still used today by a few on the Welsh side of the nearby border, is Llanllieni.
I'm only posting all this guff because I'm nervous as hell about tonight and trying to distract myself. Setting off in ten minutes.
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Next time I see my friend I'll pass on your kind words.
Now calm the f*ck down, it'll probably end up a one all draw anyway.
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never seen that before, very good 
