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

[Eagle]

Guildford. Two of the letters are silent.
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It was always pronounced that way until the media lot started to adopt the absurd American habit of stressing the first syllable of just about everything.
e.g. Di-rect; Cont-ribute; Dis-tribute and Re- search. It's ugly and unecessary.

Then again in the 1980s the BBC decided that they would start pronouncing Trafalgar Square like the cape it's named after, i.e. "tra-fal-GAR", on the grounds that it was more correct. It didn't last long

 

[CNash]

From the Southeast - Erith (EAR-ith, not EEE-rith as some automated announcers would have you believe) and Eltham (El-TAM, with a silent H like the nearby river).

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Is it TODmorden or TodMORden?
Is Sowerby Bridge Sow as in pig or Sow as in seed?
Is Mytholmroyd Mith... or M-eye-th...

I would say the former in each case but I'm not from Yorkshire.

 

[PinzaC55]

Since we're including closed stations here, "Masham" station in North Yorkshire was pronounced "Massam".

 

[Eagle]

Is it TODmorden or TodMORden?
Is Sowerby Bridge Sow as in pig or Sow as in seed?
Is Mytholmroyd Mith... or M-eye-th...

I would say the former in each case but I'm not from Yorkshire.

None of those. TOD-mur-dun, SOAR-bee brij and MY-thum-roid.

 

[button_boxer]

None of those. TOD-mur-dun, SOAR-bee brij and MY-thum-roid.

Since we've already established (many times) that Welsh spelling is phonetic, maybe we should start using the Welsh alphabet to transcribe English place names in this thread.

Maedd-ym-roed anyone?

 

[LE Greys]

Penge always had me confused. I always pronounced it 'Peng', as in 'sing', as opposed to 'Penj' as in 'singe'. Too much Latin, perhaps.

 

[stut]

If you think Penge is bad, be careful pronouncing Anerley...

 

[johnnychips]

If you think Penge is bad, be careful pronouncing Anerley...

How do you say it?

 

[Ivo]

Ann - err - ley (but said faster than this layout may suggest). There is a mild stress on the middle syllable.

Without the syllable "ann", this is also the correct pronunciation for Earley.

 

[MCR247]

If you think Penge is bad, be careful pronouncing Anerley...

Ann - err - ley (but said faster than this layout may suggest). There is a mild stress on the middle syllable.

Without the syllable "ann", this is also the correct pronunciation for Earley.

How else would you say it?

 

[Ivo]

I think some people will needlessly dirty minds are trying to imagine there is a strong stress on the first syllable - and that it is pronounced like the letter "A"...

Even London isn't that lame :roll:

 

[ert47]

I just call Anerley, "Anna-Lee". easiest way to say it and read it

I think some people will needlessly dirty minds are trying to imagine there is a strong stress on the first syllable - and that it is pronounced like the letter "A"...

Even London isn't that lame :roll:

Well there is that certain station at the North-east end of the Piccadilly Line... :roll:

 

[142094]

I don't think it's been mentioned, but Prudhoe.

It's pronounced Prudda.

Automatic announcements at Middlesbrough of course do the wrong pronunciation.

 

[ert47]

Anyone worked out how to pronounce "Goodge Street"?

 

[Whistler40145]

Well, I would spell it "Googe Street" without the letter d.


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[MidnightFlyer]

Anyone worked out how to pronounce "Goodge Street"?

Goo-j Street

 

[The Barlow Boy]

Has anyone mentioned Hartlepool? Any other place would be pronounced "Hartelpool" but with typical British idiosyncracy it's "Hart-le-pool".
And Marylebone should be pronounced Mary-le-bone with equal stress on all three sylables.

 

[142094]

Has anyone mentioned Hartlepool? Any other place would be pronounced "Hartelpool" but with typical British idiosyncracy it's "Hart-le-pool".
And Marylebone should be pronounced Mary-le-bone with equal stress on all three sylables.

Hartlepool is pronounced as Hart-le-pool as its name translates as 'Stag/deer next to the pool (of water). There is also a village to the north of the town called Hart.

Chester-le-Street is also pronounced differently to what many expect, along with Chichester on the TW Metro,

 

[MidnightFlyer]

along with Chichester on the TW Metro,

Ch-eye-chester isn't it?

 

[142094]

Ch-eye-chester isn't it?

Aye, not like the place down south. I also had someone who couldn't pronounce Bede last year when the Great North Run was on.

 

[PinzaC55]

Aye, not like the place down south. I also had someone who couldn't pronounce Bede last year when the Great North Run was on.

Maybe he was out of breath?

 

[LE Greys]

Ch-eye-chester isn't it?

I've heard the southern version called "Sissiter".
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Has anyone mentioned Hartlepool? Any other place would be pronounced "Hartelpool" but with typical British idiosyncracy it's "Hart-le-pool".
And Marylebone should be pronounced Mary-le-bone with equal stress on all three sylables.

Forever paired in my mind with Dunstable. Why? Because some choir or other used to sing,

Hartlepool,
Dunstable,

before something that could have been in Martian for all I know. I was never sure what they were really singing.

 

[Eagle]

I've heard the southern version called "Sissiter".

No, that's Cirencester. (And hideously old-fashioned too.)

 

[Gwenllian2001]

Has anyone mentioned Hartlepool? Any other place would be pronounced "Hartelpool" but with typical British idiosyncracy it's "Hart-le-pool".
And Marylebone should be pronounced Mary-le-bone with equal stress on all three sylables.

I think you mean English idiosyncrancy.

 

[The Barlow Boy]

I think you mean English idiosyncrancy.

Well, given that the Scots manage to get Kirkuddy out of Kirkaldy and the Welsh seem to have place names with no vowels which makes them lisp, choke and clear their throat all at the same time whilst pronouncing them I think I'll stick to British.

 

[Eagle]

Well, given that the Scots manage to get Kirkuddy out of Kirkaldy and the Welsh seem to have place names with no vowels which makes them lisp, choke and clear their throat all at the same time whilst pronouncing them I think I'll stick to British.

I've already pointed out that Welsh names are all, without exception, spelt entirely phonetically.

Also Welsh has a higher vowel-to-consonant ratio than English, you'll be surprised to learn.

 

[142094]

Maybe he was out of breath?

Nah, he was a spectator, wanted to get near to the action. Told him to get off somewhere else where the race would be easier to see.

 

[swcovas]

Well, given that the Scots manage to get Kirkuddy out of Kirkaldy and the Welsh seem to have place names with no vowels which makes them lisp, choke and clear their throat all at the same time whilst pronouncing them I think I'll stick to British.

Here we go again.....knocking the Welsh language from those who obviuosly know nothing about it. "I'll stick to British???" Didn't know there was a language called British!

 

[Gwenllian2001]

Well, given that the Scots manage to get Kirkuddy out of Kirkaldy and the Welsh seem to have place names with no vowels which makes them lisp, choke and clear their throat all at the same time whilst pronouncing them I think I'll stick to British.

Here we go again after God knows how many posts pointing out that Welsh is not English. Try this:

http://www.go4awalk.com/fell-facts/welsh-language-pronunciation.php