Nene or Nen

[Drago]

The Queen pronounces scone with the 'e', and thats good enoigh for me,

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Queen pronounces scone with the 'e', and thats good enoigh for me,

Ah but “Is this the real life, or...”

 

[cheys03]

A long-standing topic of great debate in our household. My partner, from Northamptonshire says Nen. Her friend from Cambridgeshire says Neen, as Drago detailed. To mock them both, I (a northerner) call it the Nee Nee.
I think though, it just allowed them to set their differences aside and both mock me instead.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It’s pronounced nono

 

[Archie_tect]

Down here in Poshshire we have such issues too... I always wonder about the truth of the much-stated mis-pronunciation of Loughborough - I was at university there for three years and never once heard any loogbaroogas, lowburrows or luffbruffs.

...a friend at Leicester Uni called it Lowbrow.

 

[DaveReading]

The BBC pronounce Belfast as Bel-fast. I've never heard the locals do that.

How do you tell when somebody is pronouncing a hyphen ?

 

[Littgull]

Cue @ColinJ for his amusing tale about 'Slaithwaite' (near Huddersfield) being spelt as 'Slawit' and pronounced as 'Slough-it'' by the locals.

 

[ColinJ]

Cue @ColinJ for his amusing tale about 'Slaithwaite' (near Huddersfield) being spelt as 'Slawit' and pronounced as 'Slough-it'' by the locals.

Funnily enough, that came up HERE about a month ago!

 

[Poacher]

A long-standing topic of great debate in our household. My partner, from Northamptonshire says Nen. Her friend from Cambridgeshire says Neen, as Drago detailed. To mock them both, I (a northerner) call it the Nee Nee.
I think though, it just allowed them to set their differences aside and both mock me instead.

Have even more fun calling it the nēnē ; I love the noise it makes.
https://www.xeno-canto.org/314511

 

[pawl]

...a friend at Leicester Uni called it Lowbrow.

watch it I was born in Loughborough..

 

[gbb]

I live near the Nene in Cambridgeshire and everyone round here pronounces it Neen.

Whichever way you pronounce it, the Nene is a truly beautiful river.

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To be fair, Fotheringhay Church shown above is just inside Northamptonshire- so is Probably on the banks of the Nen.

A few years ago i missed an absolute beauty of an opportunity to take a memorable photo of that church.
I was headed home, nervously looking ahead at the black threatening cloud behind the church...in the direction i was cycling. All of a sudden a shaft of brilliant sunlight perfectly lit up the church, making it stand out terrifically against the black thunderous backdrop.

By the time i stopped, got my phone out, faffed around...the shaft of sunlight faded and the opportunity was gone forever.
Bah...

Peterborough, it's the Nene of course, Northants its the Nen. I wonder at which point it becomes one or the other ?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

How do you tell when somebody is pronouncing a hyphen ?

Glottal stop

 

[Littgull]

Funnily enough, that came up HERE about a month ago!

Oh, I must have missed that! That tale never fails to make me chuckle.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How do you tell when somebody is pronouncing a hyphen ?

Their tongue sticks out and curves down.

 

[Chris S]

The BBC pronounce Belfast as Bel-fast. I've never heard the locals do that.

How do you tell when somebody is pronouncing a hyphen ?

In this case there the BBC make a slight pause between the 'Bel' and the 'fast', as though they were two separate words.