The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Well, don't wait for my (correct) answer then!

For your next test, how did locals used to pronounce SLAITHWAITE?

 

[classic33]

Anyone noticed the GB cycling team are riding bikes made by Hope Lotus?

Hope are based in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. Gold medal to anyone who can pronounce Barnoldswick.......no googling

Phonetic answers.......

What some people might have done had they spilt their pint after it being served.

 

[classic33]

Well, don't wait for my (correct) answer then!

For your next test, how did locals used to pronounce SLAITHWAITE?

Not Slay-th-wait at least.

 

[numbnuts]

Hermes are on their way .........could be a long day......if they come at all

 

[Tenkaykev]

Hermes are on their way .........could be a long day......if they come at all

Do you have the Hermes “ App” on your phone? I know it allows parcel tracking which might give a better indication of when your parcel is due to arrive.

 

[swee'pea99]

Well, don't wait for my (correct) answer then!

For your next test, how did locals used to pronounce SLAITHWAITE?

Bet it's Slath'ut

 

[classic33]

Until someone tells you most people pronounce Barnoldswick as "bar-noldz-wick" or "baa-nolds-wik".

In Lancashire it's "baa-lik"

Thought sheep were involved somehow.

 

[swee'pea99]

Bet it's Barnock

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Do you have the Hermes “ App” on your phone? I know it allows parcel tracking which might give a better indication of when your parcel is due to arrive.

Last delivery I had was from a company that allowed tracking
Apparently the parcel was still somewhere around Sheffield when the door rang and the parcel was here!!!

I was wondering why they had such a long delivery trip!!

Anyway - today
Cycling watched - I really was worried about Carlton during the Maddison - maybe they could hook his blood pressure up to a turbine next Olympics - he could power the whole event!!!
Yea Gods that guy gets excited!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Not Slay-th-wait at least.

Nothing beats Milngavie

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Until someone tells you most people pronounce Barnoldswick as "bar-noldz-wick" or "baa-nolds-wik".

In Lancashire it's "baa-lik"

The commentators are definitely missing a trick, the connection between the GB bikes and the development of the jet engine

 

[ColinJ]

Not Slay-th-wait at least.

As I discovered, when I asked an elderly local man if we were actually in Slay-th-wait! (He was totally confused by what I was asking him... I had to spell out the name of the town to him, and he looked totally bewildered that anybody could possibly imagine that it was pronounced that way! )

 

[Tenkaykev]

Nothing beats Milngavie

I know that one, Mrs Tenkaykev having cycled through it.

 

[ColinJ]

Bet it's Slath'ut

Nope...

Spoiler: The answer given by Martin Underwood

(HERE)

I'd always understood that the "official" local pronounciation was Sl-ow!-it
("ow" to rhyme with "cow").

I was on a train that stopped at Slaithwaite. The guard was annoucing the
station as we approached. In his normal homely West Riding accent, he
referred to it as "Slowit". Then, as an afterthought, he said "By the way,
that's the place that Nampby Pamby Pampered Southerners think is pronounced
as" [exaggerated posh accent] "Slaythwayt". The whole of my carriage
collapsed in fits of the giggles.

 

[PaulSB]

We backpacked across the States in 1980. In California we wanted to visit "yos-e-mite" it took sometime before we found a man who directed us to:

yo-semi-tee

😂😂