| Subject: | Re: local names (was TS activity N France) |
| From: | Graham P Davis |
| Posting date: | 05-07-2008 |
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Joe Egginton wrote:
>
>>
>> Try "Teignmouth", if you live in the North.......or alternatively, try
>> Keighley, if you live in Teignmouth! What a wonderfully diverse
>> language.
>
> I would said Tin-mouth, and Keith-ley.
>
> In the west midlands we have Caldmore pronounced Karma, or Wightwick
> pronounced Whit-tick.
35 years ago in Needham Market, Suffolk, a man in his early eighties was
telling me he'd just enjoyed a day out in Claydon. As this was an
unremarkable little village only a mile or two down the road, I was a bit
baffled. Eventually, I gave up trying to figure out what he was on about
and asked him to spell the place. It was Clacton.
--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
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