Trivia: Stations that don't sound like they're Spelt

[rf_ioliver]

And if we want to go onto narrow guage and heritage lines, what about Dduallt and Minfordd?

Pronounced exactly as they're written

Welsh DD = English hard TH (as in "the")
U = English "ee"
A = as in apple
LL = is a Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (easy!) *
T = T

Minffordd is easy, FF= English F and DD as above


It is the English names that are hard, what about: Brighton...BRIG-HU-TON and all those silent 'e's at the end of a word, changing the vowel two letters before...


Ian


* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_lateral_fricative

 

[Requeststop]

One that has always made me wonder is St. Germans in Cornwall. It is as it is spelled, i.e. Saint Germans or something more alluring?

As for the Alnmouth debate further up the thread, as a Geordie I've always pronounced it Alun-mouth or occasionally as it is spelled, Aln-mouth, but either way the 'l' is always pronounced, unlike, as Yorkie says the nearby town of 'Annick"

People with broad Cornish accents would say Snoozz'le for St Austell and the same Snives, for St Ives.

You'd hear on the train a conversation
"Where you to?'
"Going Snoozzle drekly"

All Cornish Saints are pronounced "Snt" So Snt Ives, Snt Erth". If anyone said Saint Ives, Saint Erth etc, they they definately an outsider, or a second home owner.

My local Station - we say Le'lant - outsiders say Ley'lant - those in the know use the old name of the village and say Uny le'lant.
No longer with any station but locals say Lan'son for Launceston
No station ever, but Mousehole = Mou'sel

Over in Devon (spit's on the floor) Teignmouth is pronounced Tinmuth, Tinmouth if you're posh.

 

[Railsigns]

Greenock (Gren-ick).

Er, no. Greenock = "Greenock"/"Greenick" (but Greenwich = Gren-itch").

 

[Schnellzug]

Frome used to catch me out quite a bit (Frume)... wasn't until my ex-gf started hitting me every time I said it wrong (for 'twas from where she came) that I started getting it right!

Shame this is is only about stations... otherwise I'd possibly also mention the north Devon villages of Woolfardisworthy (Woolsery) and Brayford (~ford not ~fud)...

And what about Poxwell, near Weymouth? 'Po'c'sle', like fo'c'sle.

 

[WatcherZero]

Never seen Poxwell before but weirdly read it right the first time.

 

[sburnley]

I was amused while waiting at Doncaster listening to the station announcer pronouncing a station near Sheffield as Medder Wall. It took ages for it to dawn on me.

Re earlier posts;
We always said Marske as it is written rather than "mask". Same with Redcar - there are a few local TV programmes that pronounce it "Redcuh" but we always said red car. Now I live near Shrewsbury and the story is that if you are from Shrewsbury it is pronounced Shroosbury, but if you are posh and not from Shrewsbury you pronounce it Shrowsbury (to rhyme with show). Arriva Trains Wales use Shroosbury, so it must be right!

Another one: (edited)
Cradley Heath is craidley, not cradley.

 

[WatcherZero]

Haigh pronounced Hay
Boars Head pronounced Boars Ed

 

[Requeststop]

As a Southwesterner who has great difficulty watching Coronation Street and Emmerdale without subtitles, how are the following actually pronounced?

Besses o' th' Barn

Hall I' Th' Wood

 

[Whistler40145]

I am not sure either & I am a Northerner from Blackpool!


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[Smudger105e]

Crich in Derbyshire is Cry-ch not Critch.

I have always pronounced Marylebone like that, Marry le bone.

Why is Cosham pronounced Cosh 'em when Bosham on the same line in pronouced Bozzem?

And why is Rotherham pronounced Masborough in railway terms?

Alresford? All res ford?

And the Erewash Valley is not earwash, it's error wash.

 

[Schnellzug]

Alresford? All res ford? .

Allsford, i think, although I could, as has been known, be wrong,

 

[hairyhandedfool]

As a Southwesterner who has great difficulty watching Coronation Street and Emmerdale without subtitles, how are the following actually pronounced?

Besses o' th' Barn

Hall I' Th' Wood

Being a southerner who has moved north I'm not certain, but I *think* they are...

Besses O' Th' Barn - "bess-oh-th-barn"

Hall I' Th' Wood - Like "hall-in-th-wood" but without the 'n'

 

[PR1Berske]

As a Southwesterner who has great difficulty watching Coronation Street and Emmerdale without subtitles, how are the following actually pronounced?

Besses o' th' Barn

Hall I' Th' Wood

I'm from Preston so I guess that my East Lancastrian cousins will disagree with me but....


"Besez o t'barn" . "Al i th'wud"

(that's "Al" as in "You Can Call Me Al", and "i" as in "tin", not "side")

 

[Michael.Y]

It's BARTH! Not Baath or Baaff!

No, it's definately Baaath. After all, I don't call my friend Cath Carth...

 

[Sir_Clagalot]

Witham is Wit-am

 

[ex-railwayman]

Americans can't pronounce Loughborough correctly, they say "Loo-gah-bor-oou-gah"!

Nah, that's the Australian pronunciation, Americans say Luff-borough, emphasis being on the word borough, especially, if they are from New York which have their own 5 boroughs.....

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

 

[Swanny200]

I was born in Aberdeen and for the guys asking about Scottish pronounciations of things only need to look here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDNN6NigGNM

 

[Oswyntail]

I used to commute from Snorbens.

 

[Michael.Y]

Port Talbot is, of course, P'torl-butt.

 

[marks87]

Another obvious one that struck me just now while at Glasgow Central - Wemyss Bay -> Weems Bay.

 

[Seacook]

More obvious ones (with apologies if I missed them): Reading (and Reading West) and Smethwick (Galton Bridge and Rolfe Street).

Edit: And anything with Thames in its name.

 

[NorthantsMan]

An oft-mispronounced (and misspelt) station is Berkhamsted.

It's "Berkham - sted", not "Berk-hampstead".

 

[transmanche]

Southwark (Suth-walk)

Suthuck (with a hard 'th' as in 'the' - and a southern 'u').

 

[Tiny Tim]

The local pronunciation for "Swindon" is "Shi-te-hole"

 

[transmanche]

The Tyne & Wear Metro announce Prudhoe as prude hoe!!

T&W Metro doesn't go anywhere near Prudhoe - are you thinking of Northern?

Although Metro's electronic lady does suffer from a bit of AQI; almost as if she's not really sure where the train is going to, or what the next station is!

 

[SIGGY56]

Nah, that's the Australian pronunciation, Americans say Luff-borough, emphasis being on the word borough, especially, if they are from New York which have their own 5 boroughs.....

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

The word ending with OUGH ......... Slough pronounced as "Slaw"
while Brough is pronounced as "Bruff"

 

[Liam]

Most places which used to have the letter yogh (ȝ), today have strange pronunciations. Menzieshill in Dundee is, or should be pronounced Mingis-hill, Culzean Castle in Ayrshire is Cull-ee-an. Dalziel and variations of the name are pronounced Dee-yell. Shetland used to be called Hjaltland by the Norwegians, then Ȝetland by scots, both pronounced Hyaltland. When we stopped using the letter yogh, it became Zetland and finally Shetland.

 

[TDK]

Marylebone - Marl ee bone
Warwick - war rick
Haddenham and thame parkway - tame instead of fame
Beaconsfield - beckons field

 

[philjo]

Flitwick (confuses people as it is on the same line as Gatwick !!)
Greenwich
Harwich
Norwich

Knebworth (has silent K)

Welwyn (north or Garden City) - I once heard someone asking staff at KX if this was the right train for "Well-win city" & receiving blank looks!)

 

[dvboy]

Pwllheli

"Puth-elly"