07-11-2002 21:34									#31
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That is definitely Shrewsbury, not Shrowsbury. Named after the Battle of the Shrew. Or something like that..

	07-11-2002 21:40									#32
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Nope...
It used to be spelled Shroesbury (look at some old maps, pre-17th century).

It uses the same pronunciation as sew...

Either, though, are valid pronunciations.

	07-11-2002 21:41									#33
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Better not introduce any Southerners to the town near me of Borth. They'd probably never finishing saying it..

	07-11-2002 21:41									#34
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Burry or Berry, Stew? I tend to alternate between the two for some bizarre reason...

	07-11-2002 21:44									#35
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I usually say Burry.

How about Wigan? Wigun or Wiggin?

	07-11-2002 21:44									#36
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Come to think of it...Worsley or Worzley?

	07-11-2002 21:45									#37
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How are you supposed to pronounce "futile" ?

	07-11-2002 21:46									#38
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castleford is funny when a southerner mentions them in relation to rugby league, they make it sound a really nice place by saying carstleford.

Clearly haven't been there

	07-11-2002 21:46									#39
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We could throw in the likes of Worcestershire here, or Leominster...or Dun Laoghaire (which I embarrassingly got wrong at the station in Dublin, much to the Mrs amusement).

	07-11-2002 21:46									#40
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fyou-tile

Worse-ly

	07-11-2002 21:47									#41
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Stinger:
That's because most southerners can't pronounce castle...carstle my arse.

	07-11-2002 21:48									#42
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There's a little village near to where I lived in Scotland called Kilcadzow, pronounced Kil-craig-y. Never did figure out how they managed that... makes Dalziel sound almost plausible.

	07-11-2002 21:48									#43
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I'm glad I was travelling out of the other ferry port, Tolls. I think it's Dun Logare...

Futile - as it looks. Same as mobile. Definitely not mobill.

	07-11-2002 21:49									#44
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Apparently it's something along the lines of Dun Leary, though quite how you get that second bit from that random collection of letters is beyond me.

Gaelic was invented to annoy the English...

	07-11-2002 21:50									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Tolls Stinger: That's because most southerners can't pronounce castle...carstle my arse.

I know but its even funnier when you look at the place itslef, at least Bath is posh

	07-11-2002 21:51									#46
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I suppose they may actually be saying it correctly, but hearing "syoot" instead of "sute" for suit really bugs..

	07-11-2002 21:54									#47
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A question for you: A girl I know lives on a road called Sower's Lane.

I got confused with the pronunciation the first time I said it, and just want to know if it's me being stupid or if the road genuinely is pronounced in an odd way.

How would you lot pronounce Sower's?

	07-11-2002 21:57									#48
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Is she pretty?

	07-11-2002 22:15									#49
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I'd go for Sow (as in female pig)...

So you end up with sours, rather than Sow (as in sowing grain), which would give so-ers.

	07-11-2002 22:40									#50
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My brother's reading/writing vocabulary used to be much larger than his speaking vocabulary (it's still larger, but not nearly so much as it once was), so he'd come up with all sorts of ****ed up pronunciations:

Chaos: Chay-ohz
Society: Sosh-ity

	07-11-2002 23:19									#51
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quote: Originally posted by *End Is Forever* Is she pretty?

Why do you ask?

quote: I'd go for Sow (as in female pig)...

Hmmm...must be me then. I would have gone for So-er's myself, but I was told the pronunciation was more akin to Sour's.

	07-11-2002 23:26									#52
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The Oasis-ese pronouncation of Manchestaaaa! :O)

	07-11-2002 23:37									#53
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quote: Originally posted by *End Is Forever* There's a little village near to where I lived in Scotland called Kilcadzow, pronounced Kil-craig-y. Never did figure out how they managed that...

Maybe they were fed up with people thinking it was some village in Poland.

	07-11-2002 23:52									#54
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Vulnerable as "vol-nearble" rather than "vyu-nerable".

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quote: Originally posted by *End Is Forever* Burry or Berry, Stew? I tend to alternate between the two for some bizarre reason...

Now I generally pronounced it from the latter, but I've noticed anyone from Lancashire seems to pronounce it more like 'Burr-eh'...

What annoys me? I dunno really. 'Aluminum' irritates me and the way Americans say 'missle' instead of 'missile'

	08-11-2002 00:06									#56
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pronouncing 'Hawick' as 'Ha-wick' rather than 'Hoiyk'

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quote: Originally posted by Tolls Apparently it's something along the lines of Dun Leary, though quite how you get that second bit from that random collection of letters is beyond me.

Yes, Dun Laoghaire is pronounced like Dun Leary. I remember being on about this one to my mother...

	08-11-2002 00:19									#58
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Now I thought it was "wuss-ta-shi", not "war-cester-shair" or "wor-cester-shire" (Worcestershire sauce (SP?)), but I seem to be in a minority of one in the country who even thinks they know the correct way.

Can anyone clarify for me - someone who uses the word more than once in a millennium?

Oh I have one more - "nyookyoola" instead of "nooclear". WTF is a nuculus?!?!

	08-11-2002 00:20									#59
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quote: Originally posted by Paul Hanson A question for you: A girl I know lives on a road called Sower's Lane. I got confused with the pronunciation the first time I said it, and just want to know if it's me being stupid or if the road genuinely is pronounced in an odd way. How would you lot pronounce Sower's?

It would have thought along the lines of sow, female pig, so pronounced like sours.

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I can't believe I'm the only person who thinks it should be pronounced so-er's, or as I prefer to call it, correctly.