Have you become a 'citizen'?

[Accy cyclist]

Eight towns have become cities overnight.

Platinum Jubilee: Eight towns to be made cities for Platinum Jubilee​

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61505857

Sadly Accrington isn't one of them, but the Falkland Islands capital Stanley, obviously named after Accrington Stanley is on the list!. I heard a radio news reader pronounce Dunfermline Dun ferm line( line, not lin),using three syllables.

 

[Threevok]

Wrexham too.

 

[MontyVeda]

Never heard Dunfermline pronounced with fewer than three syllables... but BBC Radio Lancashire presenters tend to be hopeless at pronouncing some local towns and villages.

Does becoming a city offer any real benefit, or is it just another excuse for the council to cut services because they're spending all their money on updating their stationery and town signage?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Never heard Dunfermline pronounced with fewer than three syllables

Yeah, but really emphasized syllables! Dun....ferm.....line! The 'line' bit was the best!!

 

[Time Waster]

Eight towns have become cities overnight.

Platinum Jubilee: Eight towns to be made cities for Platinum Jubilee​

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61505857

Sadly Accrington isn't one of them, but the Falkland Islands capital Stanley, obviously named after Accrington Stanley is on the list!. I heard a radio news reader pronounce Dunfermline Dun ferm line( line, not lin),using three syllables.

Accrington Stanley, who are they? 😆

 

[SydZ]

Yeah, but really emphasized syllables! Dun....ferm.....line! The 'line' bit was the best!!

Someone in The Bidding Room made the usual mistakes when pronouncing Kirkcaldy earlier this week.

 

[Time Waster]

Becoming a city apparently helps with access to more money from central government (not central at all that would put them in Dunsop Bridge). Although why a city council should get better access to extra funds than non city councils for no obvious reason other than city status I really don't know. I bet there's towns in more need of money than some of those new cities.

Is Blackburn a city? I remember the times before the city of Preston. I always thought Blackburn deserves it more.

 

[MichaelW2]

There are Cities and there are Fine Cities. I live in the latter.

 

[postman]

Yeah, but really emphasized syllables! Dun....ferm.....line! The 'line' bit was the best!!

Adel is Leeds 16.BBC pronounce it Adele,it is Addle.

 

[Donger]

Accrington Stanley, who are they? 😆

Exactly!

 

[PeteXXX]

Hamtun is not a city even though we have a cathedral.

 

[a.twiddler]

Citizen? Always been one of somewhere, at some time. Great Britain. Europe. The World. Don't need a city, or even a football team for that. .

 

[rualexander]

Someone in The Bidding Room made the usual mistakes when pronouncing Kirkcaldy earlier this week.

I have relatives in NZ with the surname Kirkcaldy and they pronounce the L.

 

[Chris S]

Wrexham too.

That's so they can suffer from inner city deprivation.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Accrington Stanley, who are they? 😆

Exactly!!!