Can you beat 'yacht'...

[Mad Doug Biker]

The rhythm method!

Well, I'll let English get away with 'The' and 'method' but it is NOT going to get away with 'rhythm' ...

Barnoldswick = Barlick - WTF!!!

Fleetwick = Flittick

Also

Leominster = Lemster (I think).

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Greenock, you have no idea the amount of English who seem to call it

'Grenock' as in Greenwich.

Or if they get that right, then the emphasis on 'nock' gets them (see Gourock below).

It is simply

Green - ick

Gourock is another they almost always get wrong - Yes you are, by and large saying it right, but just don't put all the emphasis on the 'rock' at the end.

It is

Gour-ick, not Gourock.


Oh and Bearsden..... It is said as it is written, i.e. Bears-den, a den belonging to a bear, a Bear's den.

It is NOT said as one word as it were like

'Bearsden' or worse 'Beersden' or 'Beersdon'

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh yes, and Dumbarton.....

..... It is pronounced like

'Dum - Barton'

Not

'Dum - ber - ton'

As I heard it being called once.

 

[guitarpete247]

Down the road from me is the village of Heather. Pronounced Heether.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Yes, the P is silent in Dumpbarton

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yes, the P is silent in Dumpbarton

Dum - B*stard

Get it right there!

 

[guitarpete247]

Is that the same as the P is silent in Bath?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Down the road from me is the village of Heather. Pronounced Heether.

There is a place in Kent with a simlar name like that.

 

[srw]

Queenzieburn - Queen'ieburn

That 'z' also turns up in things like

'Dalzeil', or 'Dee'ell, as in Dee'ell and Pascoe.


Seemingly the 'z' is a.... One of those, I can't remeber the name off hand... A Glottal stop?

Yogh. (Iirc, and to bring the thread almost full circle.)

 

[srw]

Oh yes, and Dumbarton.....

..... It is pronounced like

'Dum - Barton'

Not

'Dum - ber - ton'

As I heard it being called once.

Not true for Dumbarton Oaks, somewhere in New England, after which a well-known piece of music is named.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not true for Dumbarton Oaks, somewhere in New England, after which a well-known piece of music is named.

This is the REAL Dumbarton though!!

The ancient capital of Strathclyde amongst other things.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not true for Dumbarton Oaks, somewhere in New England, after which a well-known piece of music is named.

Why how is it pronounced there?

 

[srw]

Why how is it pronounced there?

'Dum - ber - ton'

...oddly enough.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh, and another glo'al stop involving a 'z' is, of course.....


...... Menzies


.... Although the 'e' seems to be an 'i' now, so you have names like

Menzies Campbell = Ming-iss Campbell

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

...oddly enough.

Never knew that. You had better write in and tell them it is wrong then.