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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 08 May 08 07:24 BST (UK) »
Hi Kelly  :D

You have solved a riddle for me.  There is a Beauchamp St in a town near where I live and the locals all pronounce it Beecham and I couldn't fathom why, it seemed really odd.  But now I know, it's from the old country!!  ;D ;D

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Smith, Warwick Shire
Ashwell, Buckminster Leicester
Brown, Kent
OBrien/Brien, Cork
Dunstan, Stithians Corwall
Beard, Stithians Corwall
Penman, Midlothian, Perth or Fife
Dick, Fife
Ruddock, Staindrop Durham
Willis, Ingleton Durham
Gibbon, Kirkby Ravensworth
Lazenby, Middleton Yorkshire
Bradley, London
Ware, London

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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 08 May 08 07:27 BST (UK) »
I have noticed in my family that people who aren't familiar with my GGrandmother call her Maria (Italian pronunciation), but I know it is pronounced Mariah (English pronunciation) cause my Mum remembers her vaguely.  So I am lucky my Mum had that knowledge or I would pronounce it wrong too.. ::) ::)

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Smith, Warwick Shire
Ashwell, Buckminster Leicester
Brown, Kent
OBrien/Brien, Cork
Dunstan, Stithians Corwall
Beard, Stithians Corwall
Penman, Midlothian, Perth or Fife
Dick, Fife
Ruddock, Staindrop Durham
Willis, Ingleton Durham
Gibbon, Kirkby Ravensworth
Lazenby, Middleton Yorkshire
Bradley, London
Ware, London

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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 08 May 08 07:51 BST (UK) »
Our town is MON-murth (Monmouth) if you live in it; if you are slightly more middle class and/or live in Herefordshire its MUN-muth ...

The town is named after the River Monnow, which of course those in Herefordshire pronounce MUN-ow ...


No wonder vistors have trouble with English ! 
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 08 May 08 07:57 BST (UK) »
I used to work in a bank and we had a customer whose surname was Sidebottom.

But she said it was pronounced Siddy Both(rhymes with broth) Arm. :o :o :o

My mum used to know a Mrs Death  8) again, pronounced De' Ath.

I live near a place called Cogenhoe........Pronounced Cooooook Know.

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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 08 May 08 09:30 BST (UK) »
I once lived in Bradwell, North Bucks [now part of Milton Keynes] the locals always called it Brad'l rhyming with saddle.

My great aunt [ Smith when she married, pronounced it SMYTHE in a telephone voice]
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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 08 May 08 09:49 BST (UK) »
 :) We have two villages round here.....one called Cambois pronounced Cammus, and another called Ulgham pronounced Uffam. My neighbour is a Gaughan and he pronounces it Gorn.  ???
Amos,Burnside,Cowan,Hamilton,Lawrie,Reid,Skeldon,(East Lothian, Berwickshire)
Matthew,Tough,Sheriff,Guild,Gourlay,Cundall,Brown(Angus,Midlothian&Australia)
Dunn,Coombs,Dalrymple,Newman,Elliott, Embleton,Day
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McPherson , Perth, Scotland
Cameron, Perthshire

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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 08 May 08 10:45 BST (UK) »
That reminds me of another Norfolk (or is it Suffolk) place name ... Hautbois = Hobbis

I suppose all these French sounding names give us a clue as to their date ...
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 08 May 08 13:06 BST (UK) »
In Scotland
Menzies pronounced Mingis
In Glasgow, Milngavie pronounced Mulguy
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Gunn, Cree, Reid,McNeice, Munro, McPhee
Jackson, Gillies,Gebbie. McCredie, nicolson, McAskill,
MacKinnon,Morrison,Campbell,

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Re: Pronunciation of names
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 08 May 08 15:43 BST (UK) »
Norfolk is full of places designed to catch out the unwary .... like the lovely little market town of Reepham - pronounced Reefham

In Kent we have Trottiscliffe, which for some reason is pronounced Trossley, and it's always a laugh hearing outsiders call Wrotham, Wrotham when it's clearly spoken as Root ham!  ;D

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