Words

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:19 pm

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!

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:48 pm

Hunstanton=Hunston

Restronguet= Rest Strong Git

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:57 am

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.

cj · Post by cj » Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:10 pm

Antique = (pron) anti-queue

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:35 pm

cj wrote:Antique = (pron) anti-queue

???

Surely it is Ann-teak

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:24 pm

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

and Wymondham in Norfolk really is pronounced Windham

cj · Post by cj » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:05 pm

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!!

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:12 pm

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.

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:14 pm

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)

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:14 pm

what verb?

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:16 pm

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!!)

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:16 pm

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.

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:18 pm

ah, that would explain it then!

cj · Post by cj » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:34 pm

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.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:49 am

Swooshy-wooshy = bubble bath