It's announced with the W pronounced, but I've always heard locals say "Dodduth". Cudworth's W is also silent according to Michael Parkinson who is from that neck of the woods. I always thought Bedworth was said as it's written but I've nothing to base that on other than my gut.
If anything, the "Slawit" pronunciation is heard more now than it ever was growing up in the Colne Valley a quarter of a century ago. Basically as long as your first vowel sound is short ("path" rather than "play") you can't go far wrong.
And, which is admittedly in the article, KIRK CALDY. I also seem to recall LNER announcing "INVER-KEITH-ING" onboard too as opposed to " INVER-KEYTHIN" which seems to be a far more common Scottish pronunciation.
No, that's the radio edit with the swearing silenced. The full version plays 2-4am.
It’s not just LNER. The announcements at Edinburgh do that, as well as Scotrail announcements I think. Despite all of that, I’ve checked with my (Fifer) Mum, who assured me it is “INVER-KEYTHIN”, as you say.
I suspect that's simply the voice's accent, given she's from Wales. I have Welsh friends who'd say it similarly...
And with the stress on the second syllable?
Was referring to "Cardiff Ssen-tral", rather than Swansea!
That's kind of it, but both the k-h consonant and the l are sounds that don't really exist in normal English. It's a bit like 'Ma-hun-fleff' where the h is the sound in 'loch' or 'Bach' and the fl is a cross between an 'f' and an 'l' rather than one said after the other. The stress is on the "hun" syllable.
What part of London? I was brought up in NW London, and only ever heard it referred to as Marley-bone.
Yes. Unlike Gatwick, on the same line!
I think the exact same happened when Celia replaced Phil Sayer a few years ago across the Northern network as well, she sounded particularly posh up north when we’d never heard her up here before
