Trivia: Place names that you're not sure how to pronounce

[Mutant Lemming]

No, no, no. It's Snorbums

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http://www.wfcforums.com/index.php?threads/the-verulam-arms-snorbens.39205/

not according to the locals at the Verulam - I prefer Schnorbitz though not sure if he's still going.

 

[Ayman Ilham]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!
Good luck pronouncing that!

 

[Smelly_Diesel]

Not On the Network, But Keswick Is 'Kezik'.

 

[duffers2324]

I notice one that hasent been said but have heard some people have trouble with is Rutherglen as in Other but i have heard some people to pronounce it as Rooferglen.

 

[Clansman]

How do fellow Scots pronounce Lockerbie?

It looks like "Lock-er-bee"
but is often pronounced "Lock-ur-bay"

 

[High Dyke]

Ayzel-bee?

Well done mayat.

 

[satisnek]

My mother is from "deepest" Surrey and has always pronounced it as Ab-in-jer, Though some people also say A-binger (as in someone who binges.)

Same here, I always knew it as 'Ab-in-jer'.

Its a more extreme version of Worplesdon (which is another place to put in this thread!)

The village may be quite a distance from the station but it's a large parish. My grandparents lived in Worplesdon Road, Guildford and their local was the Ship Inn (RIP) just over the boundary in Worplesdon parish. Anyway, it's 'Wor-puls-don' with the first 'o' pronounced as in 'haul' and the second 'o' silent

Another village near Guildford (no station though) is Compton, which I can remember hearing pronounced 'Cumpton', with the 'southern' 'u' sound.

And Guildford itself has a silent middle 'd'???

 

[IanXC]

Not On the Network, But Keswick Is 'Kezik'.

In the East Yorkshire sense, rather than the South Yorkshire sense. Ha.

 

[Calthrop]

Thurnscoe. I knew a chap long ago, who came from those parts, and pronounced the name as "Thunsker". This gentleman made a big thing of his extreme "Yorkshire-ness"; I have to wonder a little, whether in this pronunciation he was consciously "laying things on a bit thick".

 

[johnnychips]

No, that's right.

 

[steevp]

Well done mayat.

I have to confess to once being a temporary Yellowbelly

 

[ValleyLines142]

Have to confess some of the place names that we've discussed on the thread so far have got utterly bizarre pronunciations!

 

[stephen rp]

Slaithwaite? There's Slawit above but I was told Sloo - it.

Have we done the Calder Valley yet? Soreby Bridge? Mytholmroyd? (Is the L silent?) And (closed now) I knew a ticket clerk who, if he had to write a blank Edmondson ticket to Luddendenfoot would always write "Luddenden - PTO" and "foot" on the back.

 

[InOban]

For some reason visitors often pronounce here as oBAN rather than Oban. And the village of Lochaline should be LochAlin, not LochaLEEN. Means beautiful loch, BTW, and it is.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Some from round my neck of the woods
Stodham - stODDum (not stOWEDam)
Bisley - BIZZlee (not BYSElay)
Farnham - Farnum (not FarnHAMM)
Wanborough - WONbrugh (not WARnborougg)
Alresford - ORlsfud (not AL-RES-FORRRD)
Hammer - as in nail-thwacking implement (not ham-MERE)

 

[PeterC]

For some reason visitors often pronounce here as oBAN rather than Oban. And the village of Lochaline should be LochAlin, not LochaLEEN. Means beautiful loch, BTW, and it is.

Putting the stress in the wrong place is a common error which has caught me out before now.

 

[Calthrop]

Thurnscoe. I knew a chap long ago, who came from those parts, and pronounced the name as "Thunsker". This gentleman made a big thing of his extreme "Yorkshire-ness"; I have to wonder a little, whether in this pronunciation he was consciously "laying things on a bit thick".

No, that's right.

Thanks. My thoughts were a bit coloured by the guy and myself, having disliked each other. On my side, it wasn't because of his coming from Yorkshire; but because of his being an arrogant arse.

 

[2HAP]

Penistone is NOT Penis-tone, but Pen-is-ton.

Does anyone know if there is a difference in pronunciation between Alresford, Hants and Alresford, Essex?

 

[37 418]

How do fellow Scots pronounce Lockerbie?

It looks like "Lock-er-bee"
but is often pronounced "Lock-ur-bay"

Its LOCK-er-bee

 

[MK Tom]

Agree the pronunciation is "keens", but interestingly the origin of the name a few hundred years back was Kaynes / Caynes - so likely it was originally pronounced "Kaynes".

More than a few hundred! It goes back to doomsday book times, and is as you say the same Keynes family as Horsted Keynes. But it changed to 'keens' long before the present-day MK was created.

 

[83G/84D]

Two from Cornwall:-

Trewoon near St Austell is pronounced Troo-wan not Tree-woon.

Marazanvose pronounced as seen!

 

[83G/84D]

Anyone want to have a bash at Woolfardisworthy, a village in Devon?

Woolsery?

 

[12CSVT]

Llandudno (the automated announcements at Piccadilly pronounces it correctly for Llandudno Junction but incorrectly for Llandudno!)

When class 37s used to work passenger trains on the North Wales coast in the 1990s, the haulage bashers called it 'Ludo'.
Much simpler !

 

[birchesgreen]

Has anyone mentioned Wootton Wawen yet? The LM PIS voices seem to vary how they pronounce it.

 

[PR1Berske]

Hmm. I was trying to nail this one down and locals seemed to suggest "My-thum-royd" too...



More like "Pear-th" as I recall?

I'm 37 and still struggle with "myth aim roid"

 

[D6975]

When class 37s used to work passenger trains on the North Wales coast in the 1990s, the haulage bashers called it 'Ludo'.
Much simpler !

and the 40 bashers before that..

 

[steevp]

I always thought Nene Valley was pronounced Neen until I saw Countryfile last night and they called it Nin (or was it Nen)

 

[Garmoran]

For some reason visitors often pronounce here as oBAN rather than Oban. And the village of Lochaline should be LochAlin, not LochaLEEN. Means beautiful loch, BTW, and it is.

At least the station announcers at Queen Street pronounce Oban correctly, if my memory serves me right. I have never heard them pronounce Mallaig as MALLaig, always as Ma LAIG

 

[Dr_Paul]

Does anyone know if there is a difference in pronunciation between Alresford, Hants and Alresford, Essex?

I've heard them both pronounced as Alsford, with the middle 're' disappearing, but that's possibly because the people saying it were Londoners, and we tend to do that.

 

[InOban]

I always thought Nene Valley was pronounced Neen until I saw Countryfile last night and they called it Nin (or was it Nen)

I noticed that. Nen it was. Of course it's quite possible that by the time the river reaches Peterborough, the fen people pronounce it Neen!