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Trivia: Place names that you're not sure how to pronounce
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Interesting, thank you for sharing.
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I think it is difficult for others as well. 9 years ago I was admitted to Hereford Hospital where the wards are named after Herefordshire rivers. I was in Wye Ward but when I was ordering my meals, I noticed that I was listed as being in Y Ward
Or Embra. Once I was not understood by a barrista at Liverpool Airport when I told him where I was flying to.
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I had difficulty once buying a ticket at Birmingham New Street to Ruabon as the ticket clerk was trying to spell it with an Rh- which is actually the Welsh spelling
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I always thought of Hereford as Hareford, as Hartford for Hertford, then I recently discovered this to be Heriford!
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I've never heard Embra myself but I can understand how a Liverpudlian might say it that way.
Something like Suggall?Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, any non-Glaswegians care to take a punt?
hexagon789
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I wouldn't pronounce it like that as a scouser. I think it comes out as Edinbreh from most of us.
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Oh I see, apologies. I took the Liverpool Airport reference to infer that that was how Scousers pronounced Edinburgh.
Quite proud of myself there. Ha ha. Am best man at a wedding in Glasgow in August so I have to practise.Not quite!The hall is (generally) pronounced.
hexagon789
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Ha ha ha. Yes, quite well done there
Thank goodness the wedding isn't in Kirkcudbright or somewhere easy to get woefully wrong.
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Kir-coo-bri isn't it?
hexagon789
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I
think the main problem is going to be me having to wear a kilt. Ha ha.Ha ha ha. Yes, quite well done there
hexagon789
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And the Ch is pronounced as in loch/lough. And the stress is on hall.
Wye in Kent is the same as why.
hexagon789
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Not for me! Wye is not pronounced the same as the word why for me.
Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, any non-Glaswegians care to take a punt?
Hmm. The more I have thought about this the less sure I have become. But something like.... Sock-he-hall Street?
hexagon789
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Sukhhh-(short u as in cup, guttural ch)-ee-hall. Many people can't be bothered with the proper ch sound so say Suck-ee-hall.
Mate I don't mind wearing a kilt. You haven't seen my legs though. Ha ha.What's wrong with wearing a kilt?
hexagon789
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Fair enough, I won't judge you!
Just take care if it's a windy day, that's all I'm saying!
hexagon789
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Anyone game to try this one: Kilncadzow
Is that Scots or Polish? If it's Polish I'll have a go. Ha ha.
hexagon789
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Keentsachov if Polish.
Not a clue. Ha ha.I know it looks distinctly foreign! It's actually in South Lanarkshire.
hexagon789
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Sounds like an actual Polish town!
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