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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names 12:06 - Feb 2 with 10635 viewsVetchitBack

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.
[Post edited 2 Feb 2016 12:07]

The orthodox are always orthodox, regardless of the orthodoxy.

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:15 - Feb 2 with 8500 viewssomersetsimon

I think all commentators and newsreaders should pronounce every team's name in that team's local accent. It would sound great on the official reading of the results on BBC Sports Report!
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:16 - Feb 2 with 8498 viewsPegojack

Here, here. Everyone knows it's 'muff'.

(Steady, Loyal)
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:21 - Feb 2 with 8464 viewsfather_jack

swans - sea. does my tits in

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:26 - Feb 2 with 8447 viewsPrivate_Partz

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:21 - Feb 2 by father_jack

swans - sea. does my tits in


Used to be common place but that has changed with our ascendency in the leagues. 'Plaid Kymroo' used to get up my toot as well. It always amazes me how often place name are mispronounced on Swansea Sound!

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:27 - Feb 2 with 8446 viewsHighjack

They would have been the original pronunciations though, mouth of the river plym etc. Language always changes over time.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of on 12:29 - Feb 2 with 8441 viewsPrivate_Partz

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:27 - Feb 2 by Highjack

They would have been the original pronunciations though, mouth of the river plym etc. Language always changes over time.


Sweynes Eye City does not do it for me ;-)

Edit or should I say 'Ville de Sweyne'? I am sure I have seen that somewhere.
At least we can dig back over history. Cardiff have nothing prior to becoming Merthyr's coal depot ;-)
[Post edited 2 Feb 2016 12:34]

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of on 12:43 - Feb 2 with 8403 viewsHighjack

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of on 12:29 - Feb 2 by Private_Partz

Sweynes Eye City does not do it for me ;-)

Edit or should I say 'Ville de Sweyne'? I am sure I have seen that somewhere.
At least we can dig back over history. Cardiff have nothing prior to becoming Merthyr's coal depot ;-)
[Post edited 2 Feb 2016 12:34]


It really winds me up when people mispronounce my home town of Nidum, they pronounce it neath for some reason. Bloody Americans. It's disgusting. I'm going to write to the prime minister in londinium to express my outrage.

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:44 - Feb 2 with 8396 viewsfather_jack

neef mun.

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:46 - Feb 2 with 8392 viewsBanosswan

I had a good ding dong with a mate with regards to Leominster.

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.
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:51 - Feb 2 with 8383 viewsPegojack

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:46 - Feb 2 by Banosswan

I had a good ding dong with a mate with regards to Leominster.


Yeah, well, as a local expert, I can assure you it's pronounced around here as 'Lemster', and it comes out more like 'Lemstr'.

If you say 'Leo Minster', you mark yourself out as a right plonker.
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 13:15 - Feb 2 with 8351 viewsdickythorpe

Southwell racecourse in Notts, to locals it is SOUTH WELL, the plonker Alex Hammond always says "Suthel"
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 13:27 - Feb 2 with 8322 viewsVetchitBack

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:27 - Feb 2 by Highjack

They would have been the original pronunciations though, mouth of the river plym etc. Language always changes over time.


I doubt the guilty are all fiercely proud local historians to be honest

The orthodox are always orthodox, regardless of the orthodoxy.

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 13:29 - Feb 2 with 8318 viewslancasterswan

I have two that always baffle me.

Shrewsbury .... my mother's side of the family were from Brecon and Ludlow. They all pronounced it Shrewsberry as in the little furry rodent. The football results always read it as Shrowsberry. Then about 10 years ago it became Shrewsberry on the radio and telly too and Shrowsberry started to die out. And the truth is ??

And closer to home, I spent a lot of the first ten years of my life near Newport. At the top of the county on the border is the town of Monmouth. Everybody I knew called it Munmuth, but the whole of the rest of the world (well, outside The Forest at least) called it Monmuth or if they were posh, Mornmuth. The river is the Monnow, not Munnow in English and Mynwy (pron Munwee) in Welsh

Another one I don't know the right answer to.
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 13:38 - Feb 2 with 8296 viewsdickythorpe

Colchester - is it col chester or coal chester.

And the silent W in Wrexham?
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 13:57 - Feb 2 with 8266 viewslancasterswan

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go to 5:30 for the point of me posting this....
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 14:13 - Feb 2 with 8249 viewsHighjack

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 13:38 - Feb 2 by dickythorpe

Colchester - is it col chester or coal chester.

And the silent W in Wrexham?


Camulodunum mun

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 14:19 - Feb 2 with 8233 viewsfather_jack

one of the boys used to call salisbury sails bury.

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 14:36 - Feb 2 with 8212 viewsmalagajack

Folkingham in Lincolnshire
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 14:44 - Feb 2 with 8205 viewskarnataka

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 13:29 - Feb 2 by lancasterswan

I have two that always baffle me.

Shrewsbury .... my mother's side of the family were from Brecon and Ludlow. They all pronounced it Shrewsberry as in the little furry rodent. The football results always read it as Shrowsberry. Then about 10 years ago it became Shrewsberry on the radio and telly too and Shrowsberry started to die out. And the truth is ??

And closer to home, I spent a lot of the first ten years of my life near Newport. At the top of the county on the border is the town of Monmouth. Everybody I knew called it Munmuth, but the whole of the rest of the world (well, outside The Forest at least) called it Monmuth or if they were posh, Mornmuth. The river is the Monnow, not Munnow in English and Mynwy (pron Munwee) in Welsh

Another one I don't know the right answer to.


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 :-)
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 15:00 - Feb 2 with 8188 viewsBanosswan

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 12:51 - Feb 2 by Pegojack

Yeah, well, as a local expert, I can assure you it's pronounced around here as 'Lemster', and it comes out more like 'Lemstr'.

If you say 'Leo Minster', you mark yourself out as a right plonker.


He was determined it was Leo Minster, but he's northern oirish so we can cut him some slack.

On a local note, people who say Tawee instead of Tawe.

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.
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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 15:14 - Feb 2 with 8174 viewsFlashberryjack

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 15:00 - Feb 2 by Banosswan

He was determined it was Leo Minster, but he's northern oirish so we can cut him some slack.

On a local note, people who say Tawee instead of Tawe.


I was informed by a friend from that part of the world, that Lemster was the original name of the Town, they renamed it "Leominster" in honor of King Leo after paid them a visit.

Locals always refer to it as "Lemster" .......it's probably all a load of old bollux, but I thought I'd share.

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 15:34 - Feb 2 with 8151 viewsfather_jack

marylebone. thats another.

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of on 15:44 - Feb 2 with 8138 viewsPegojack

The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 15:14 - Feb 2 by Flashberryjack

I was informed by a friend from that part of the world, that Lemster was the original name of the Town, they renamed it "Leominster" in honor of King Leo after paid them a visit.

Locals always refer to it as "Lemster" .......it's probably all a load of old bollux, but I thought I'd share.


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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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of on 16:01 - Feb 2 with 8110 viewsjacktar

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.
[Post edited 2 Feb 2016 15:48]


Leon ... Leon ... Leon.

We shouldn't all be tarred with the same brush you know!

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The Creeping Literal Pronunciation of "Mouth" In Football Team Names on 16:26 - Feb 2 with 8075 viewsGlyn1

Shr - O - sbree or Shr - OOZE - bree?

Genuine question.

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