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

[PaxVobiscum]

Ballieston (Bay-lee-s-ton), Becontree (Beck-on-tree), Greenock (Gren-ick).

Ballieston (Bay-LIS-ton), Becontree (Beck-on-tree), Greenock (GREE-NOCK) (not to be confused with the way Greenwich is pronounced)
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Er, no. Greenock = "Greenock"/"Greenick" (but Greenwich = Gren-itch").

Sorry, didn't clock that correction.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

How do you pronounce Shlocd, I've always thought 's'locked'. Also, is Ruabon said as 'Rueben'?

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'd say Besses u't Barn and Hal-ith-Wud

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

That's nationwide I think you'll find

 

[Railsigns]

How do you pronounce Shlocd, I've always thought 's'locked'.

If you mean Slochd, it's pronounced as it's written, and as a single syllable.

Also, is Ruabon said as 'Rueben'?

Roo-abbon.

 

[Michael.Y]

How do you pronounce Shlocd, I've always thought 's'locked'. Also, is Ruabon said as 'Rueben'?

It's
Roo (as in kanga)
AB (as in muscle)
on (as in....er....on!)

with emphasis on the ab.

 

[dvboy]

Also, is Ruabon said as 'Rueben'?

Roo-ab-bon.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

If you mean Slochd, it's pronounced as it's written, and as a single syllable.

Sorry, yes, of course. Must have been reading and writing that wrong all these years

Roo-abbon.

It's
Roo (as in kanga)
AB (as in muscle)
on (as in....er....on!)

with emphasis on the ab.

Roo-ab-bon.

Ah, thanks all. Heard someone say it as 'Rueben' (as in the boys' name) and assumed that was correct, however I (and he) stand corrected!

 

[Michael.Y]

If it's any consolation, Atos Annie / Doris can't pronounce it. It just sounds like she's got a live cod in her mouth. Sounds a lot like Wuwawon.

 

[All Line Rover]

Ruabon is pronounced exactly as it is spelt. It's not far enough in Wales to be confusing.
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Greenock (GREE-NOCK) (not to be confused with the way Greenwich is pronounced)

It's easy to misread that one!

 

[Lampshade]

Horwich, pronunced hor-itch, not hor-witch

I've heard hor-wick

 

[MidnightFlyer]

No station any more, but I think the town of Barnoldswick being pronounced 'Barlick' or 'Ballick' confuses some people!

 

[12CSVT]

Ulgham Lane Level Crossing (on the East Coast Main Line near Butterwell Junction) - apparantly it's pronounced 'Uffam Lane' (or so I'm told).

 

[tractor]

not on railway any more,cleobury mortimer in shropshire is clibery mortimer.

 

[Michael.Y]

Recently reconnected to the railway network in OO gauge at least, Bideford is Biddy-ford, not byde-ford.

 

[Gwenllian2001]

Ruabon is pronounced exactly as it is spelt. It's not far enough in Wales to be confusing.
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It's easy to misread that one!

Ruabon is not the Welsh spelling. It's a corruption of Rhiwfabon which, incidentally, is not difficult to say.

 

[johnnychips]

When I lived there, locals said Ser-THAMP-ton not South-AMP-ton. And, correct me if I'm wrong, don't Geordies say New-CAStle rather than NEW-castle?

Older people still say Derby as it is spelt, not 'Darby'.

And growing up in the next - rival - village I'm afraid we called Broadbottom 'Broadarse' . But it is definitely BROADbottom, not BroadBOTtom.

And where I live now, there are splits: some people say 'Connisbru', some say 'Cunnisbru' for Conisbrough, but it it is never 'borough'. And some people say 'Ad-wick' others say 'Addick'. A freight line runs to Maltby pit through Wadworth, but this is always 'Woddurth': as it's also the location of the A1M/M18 interchange, Sally Traffic and Five Live usually get it wrong, no doubt thinking of 6X beer from Devizes.

 

[gnolife]

I've heard absolutely all sorts for Mauldeth Road
Mole (as in the animal) -deth
Maul (as in what an animal could do to you)-deth
Mull (as in -ed wine)-deth
'that little station just before Manchester'

Alsager is another one that I hear a few pronunciations for
Awl-Sage-er
Al-Sag-ah
Awl-Sey-gah

 

[Crossover]

Don't even go there. Along with Doncaster, I did this one to death in person with a few others last weekend.

It's BARTH! Not Baath or Baaff!

It's so annoying living in a city where my pronounciation of the local area differs to that of most others...!

N.B.: Doncaster - is it Doncarster, Doncaaster, or Donc(a)ster (i.e. quiet but not silent "a")?

It's just Bath...no R's or elongated A's or F's....just Bath :P
There again, the above does come from someone who called the green stuff outside the train window as "GRAARSS" so you know, one takes these southern terms with a pinch of salt :P

Likewise, stop trying to put extra letters into Doncaster, say it as you say it hehe (i.e. with a "short" "a" sound)
For simplicities sake though, I do tend to refer to it as Donny quite a bit (in fact, I have done a few times since the conversation we had last week)
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I've heard absolutely all sorts for Mauldeth Road
Mole (as in the animal) -deth
Maul (as in what an animal could do to you)-deth
Mull (as in -ed wine)-deth
'that little station just before Manchester'

Alsager is another one that I hear a few pronunciations for
Awl-Sage-er
Al-Sag-ah
Awl-Sey-gah

I would say the former is Maul-deth - I'm sure that's how the auto announcers say it (though, that has been proven as an unreliable source :P)

As for Alsager, I would have said it has a "z" sound in it - i.e. Al-zage-er

 

[TheJRB]

Ingatestone - is it "In-gate-stone" or "In-gut-stone"?

 

[red circle]

Norwich - Narch

 

[Schnellzug]

On a tangental note, about automated announcements having a unique slant on things, the Buses round here, as I've remarked in 'Other Transport', have recently been fitted, thanks to the generosity of the Government's Olympics pot, with a real time information system. Occasionally, it even works, but the automated announcements on the Buses seem to work on a 'say what you see' principle, rather like Roy Walker's Catchphrase. Consequently, just up the road is Wey Valley School, pronounced Way, as in Way. The auto-bot, however, prefers to call it Wee Valley. :roll:

 

[hairyhandedfool]

....And, correct me if I'm wrong, don't Geordies say New-CAStle rather than NEW-castle?....

I thought they said more, sort of, Newc-astle with a semi silent 'c'.

 

[Whistler40145]

I remember recently Kirkham & Wesham being announced as Kirkham & Wisham on the on-train automated system, this leads to a bit of chuckling by passengers.


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[Seacook]

If you mean Slochd, it's pronounced as it's written, and as a single syllable.

Is that ch as in church, as in loch or as in cloche? I have never heard the name spoken, so I still find it ambiguous.

 

[Railsigns]

Is that ch as in church, as in loch or as in cloche? I have never heard the name spoken, so I still find it ambiguous.

'ch' as in 'loch'. Say 'loch' but put an S in front and a D at the end and there you have it.

 

[northwichcat]

Shrewsbury is definitely like the animal/rodent.

Actually Shrows-bury is the wrong pronouncation, despite being the one used most often.

 

[philjo]

Actually Shrows-bury is the wrong pronouncation, despite being the one used most often.

My Dad lived in Shrewsbury when he was younger & is adamant that it its pronounced Shows-bury. That is also how Shrewsbury School is named (possibly the school defined the pronuncation at some stage to make it sound posher!)
I don't think it is so much the case nowadays but apparantly those actually living in the town generally called it Shrows-bury but those living in the county around it call is Shrews-bury. So how you pronounced it varied according to where you lived. Especially beofre the days of radio-tv etc so each distint area had its on dialect.

Also true in Yorkshire. My Grandad could tell from someone speaking if they came from Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham or Wakefield as they all had different dialects.
(e.g. Think Alan Bennett for Leeds. Geoff Boycott/Dickie Bird = Barnsley)

 

[WestCoast]

It's BARTH! Not Baath or Baaff!

It's so annoying living in a city where my pronounciation of the local area differs to that of most others...!

N.B.: Doncaster - is it Doncarster, Doncaaster, or Donc(a)ster (i.e. quiet but not silent "a")?

That's purely a matter of accent though, thanks to regional differences in the "a" sound. I can't imagine anyone from Donny calling their town "Doncarster"!
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I remember recently Kirkham & Wesham being announced as Kirkham & Wisham on the on-train automated system, this leads to a bit of chuckling by passengers.

Well, it's actually pronounced locally as "wes-ham", but even some people living a few miles away don't say it that way.

 

[All Line Rover]

As for Alsager, I would have said it has a "z" sound in it - i.e. Al-zage-er

Alsager is pronounced Ul-sage-er ("sage" as in the plant). It is NOT pronounced Al-sage-er ("al" as in "pal"), despite the automated LM woman pronouncing it that way.

 

[button_boxer]

I thought they said more, sort of, Newc-astle with a semi silent 'c'.

I hear it more like nyuh-CASS-ul (if I could type IPA the 'uh' would be a schwa).

 

[Liam]

I always thought it was simply 'toon'