For the UK people

[pikeh]

'looga-burrooga'

HAA

 

[Vasconcelos]

Something is rly wrong with all your languages, rly.....

 

[pikeh]

Thats language with character, that is.

 

[Dukat]

I'm from Norfolk, which is basicly the Shire in real life.

Shire on its own is "Shy-Er"

-shire on the end of a word is "Shear".

In other news - Bacon is Bacon no matter where it appears in the word and is always pronounced with a capital "B"

 

[supersaint]

Yous all don't speak the Queens English like what we does.

 

[Thorwyn]

Thanks for the replies folks.
I guess any language has special and non-intuitive pronounciations. As funny as it may appear to you, yes, I used to say "green witch", simply because I never heard about a different pronounciation. Is there any fixed rule for this? (pike mentioned the silent E/W?!)

Why do you say "sand-witch" and not "sand-ich" then?

 

[pikeh]

That link Ingaf posted is a pretty good guide, BBC - h2g2 - Pronouncing British Placenames

 

[Maeloch]

tbh some are pronouced differently 'just because' and Brits will fuck them up if they've not heard them as much as anyone. Most would have heard how Greenwich is prounounced however.

I've messed up a few in my time...Brough ("Bruff"), Southwark ("Suthark"), Lewes ("Lewis"), sure there's loads of them but you won't know untill you get corrected or hear the real pronouniation.

/edit oh yeah there is jsut read thru the link.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

I'm from Norfolk, which is basicly the Shire in real life.

Shire on its own is "Shy-Er"

-shire on the end of a word is "Shear".

In other news - Bacon is Bacon no matter where it appears in the word and is always pronounced with a capital "B"

I thought the Shire was based on Sussex area, rather than darkest ancient Norfolk. The only thing Norfolk has in common with the Shire is crap roads

 

[Bahumat]

Thanks for the replies folks.
I guess any language has special and non-intuitive pronounciations. As funny as it may appear to you, yes, I used to say "green witch", simply because I never heard about a different pronounciation. Is there any fixed rule for this? (pike mentioned the silent E/W?!)

Why do you say "sand-witch" and not "sand-ich" then?

For a sandwich (bread and filling), people pronounce it as SandWidge but some say Sand Witch

 

[DaGaffer]

-shire on the end of a word is "Shear".

No it isn't, its "shuh". Bloody southerners.

 

[Jupitus]

'Shire' is 'shy-er' like 'spire' is 'spy-er'.

'Berkshire' is 'bark-sher' as far as I'm concerned

 

[Appollo]

I pronounce shire as hobbitville :lol:

 

[Dukat]

No it isn't, its "shuh". Bloody southerners.

Strange - I always say grass, bath and castle with the 'northern' "Ah" instead of "Ar" in , but I've always pronounced the -shire as "Shear", had no idea it was a southern thing!

Unless of course we're talking about yorkshire accents, which blatantly don't count!

 

[ECA]

People who say Ar in those words are Arseholes

Barth, Grarss Carsle.

stfu southern fucknuts.

 

[old.Tohtori]

It's kinda like the weird r that english/us peeps throw in after words.

Drawr being one of the examples.

 

[Tuthmes]

Colonel hade me wonder aswell.

 

[Billargh]

It's kinda like the weird r that english/us peeps throw in after words.

Drawr being one of the examples.

Believe you're looking for 'drawer'.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Believe you're looking for 'drawer'.

No, that would be a regular word.

If you've watched American chopper for example, senior says the r after draw. As an example.

I've heard it elsewhere too, after some names.

Think i asked on a thread about it too and i think the census waw that it's a dialect thing of certain area.

 

[Billargh]

No, that would be a regular word.

If you've watched American chopper for example, senior says the r after draw. As an example.

I've heard it elsewhere too, after some names.

Think i asked on a thread about it too and i think the census waw that it's a dialect thing of certain area.

Yeah we say it like that, all I'm saying is it's spelled drawer. Not sure if you were typing how you say it in your last post or what

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeah we say it like that, all I'm saying is it's spelled drawer. Not sure if you were typing how you say it in your last post or what

What i meant is the word draw, not drawer

Like; "I'm gonna go and drawr a plan for it."

 

[Billargh]

What i meant is the word draw, not drawer

Like; "I'm gonna go and drawr a plan for it."

I thought you meant as in, a chest of drawers, cause I've never heard that in my life before

 

[old.Tohtori]

I thought you meant as in, a chest of drawers, cause I've never heard that in my life before

Yeah took me a while to understand you meant i meant drawer

But yeah, it's the word draw with an extra r in the end. Not just with that word, it pops up every now and then in shows.

 

[megadave]

i live next to Greenwich, go me

 

[Vasconcelos]

i live next to Greenwich, go me

Green Itch or Green Witch?

 

[Ch3tan]

Gren ich

 

[leviathane]

read first reply in thread xD

 

[Vasconcelos]

Gren ich

FFS then write it with a single "e" instead 2...

 

[old.Tohtori]

FFS then write it with a single "e" instead 2...

This be why the UK peeps all think i argue a lot, while the Europa doesn't share the same ideals. They think i say argue when i say agree

 

[Ch3tan]

FFS then write it with a single "e" instead 2...

Greenwich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

blame it on the saxons and romans.