The Pronunciation Thread

[Gunk]

Beauchamp

not “bow-champ” but “Beecham”

 

[DaveReading]

Near here:

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Barnsley is pronounced Tarn by the inhabitants
As in ‘tarnish’

 

[Asa Post]

Barnsley is pronounced Tarn by the inhabitants
As in ‘tarnish’

As in "Ah tha waytin for't bus?"
"Aye, ahm guin ta Tarn"

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

As in "Ah tha waytin for't bus?"
"Aye, ahm guin ta Tarn"

Dingles, the lot of them!!

Although, there are some nice parts of Barnsley (in the wider sense)

 

[Gunk]

Proper old Northamptonians pronounce Town as Tane. So going into town is;

“Gewing up tane”

 

[Drago]

Proper old Northamptonians pronounce Town as Tane. So going into town is;

“Gewing up tane”

They also have hunchback and marry their sisters, and those from the Duston side speak pure yokel. My daily public school tones mark me as a stranger in a strange land.

 

[Gunk]

They also have hunchback and marry their sisters, and those from the Duston side speak pure yokel. My daily public school tones mark me as a stranger in a strange land.

I can blend in when I gew back, I had the pleasure of attending a Catholic Comprehensive off the Kettering Road.

 

[Drago]

I can do public school, northern Isles or German - yokel and low calorie gangsta are beyond my abilities so I stick out like a sore thumb.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Dewsbury (West Yorkshire)
Locals use 'Doosburry, whereas others tend to pronouce it 'Jewsberry'


Another one that is better known (it's south-west of Huddersfield)
Slaithwaite (to southerners...."Slaythwayte")
Pronounced 'Slawitt (a hard 'W' as in walk)

I've heard folk say Bradford (also West Yorkshire), sounds like "Bratfud" when some locals say it. 🤔

 

[Accy cyclist]

I think it was about 20 years ago when BBC news reporters started to pronounce medicine as "Medsun". Why?!! The written word clearly shows it as med-i-sun!🤔

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've heard folk say Bradford (also West Yorkshire), sounds like "Bratfud" when some locals say it. 🤔

Yes, it can be
Dependant on which part of the city they’re from

 

[DaveReading]

I think it was about 20 years ago when BBC news reporters started to pronounce medicine as "Medsun".

Isn't that what you go to Ibiza for?

 

[Illaveago]

Wisbech gets me! Locals call it Wisbeech whereas I pronounce it as Beck as in technical.

Frome is pronounced as in the rider, Chris Froome.

We could never understand our headmaster when he used to talk about Harnish Lane in the morning assembly. He thought he was being clever. Apparently he was talking about Hardenhuish Lane as we understood it to be. We pronounced it as it looked.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Barnsley is pronounced Tarn by the inhabitants
As in ‘tarnish’

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