Here is another one to add to Dove's Norfolk collection. Near our Norfolk cottage is a village called Garboldisham. I have been told that it is also Garbodsham and Garsham.
We went to Cley (Clye)-next-the-Sea today.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Liri - I didn't mean it's only the Cornish that truncate saints. Just that Devonians find Cornish place names more difficult than neighbours generally might and vikky verky.
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first”
My FIL was delighted to be asked by a visiting Aussie relative the best way to get to Loogabarooga. Or he was when he worked out what they meant (Loughborough)
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first”
I'm trying to think of letters for our pronunciation of Gaelic. It's not gay(way too posh and English). It's more Ghia as in Ford Ghia. Ghialic.
My pal is from Cavan where they have a newspaper called "The Celt" which I (and most normal people) would pronounce Kelt but oh no! Because it's in English the locals call it the Selt!!! Huh?
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Raisingirl, I was brought up in Snorbans. That's in Herts, not Cornwall...
Here is another one to add to Dove's Norfolk collection. Near our Norfolk cottage is a village called Garboldisham. I have been told that it is also Garbodsham and Garsham.
We went to Cley (Clye)-next-the-Sea today.
BL we've always said Garble-sum.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How wude
Liri - I didn't mean it's only the Cornish that truncate saints. Just that Devonians find Cornish place names more difficult than neighbours generally might and vikky verky.
Dove
, I'm even more confused!
We must drive foreigners insane...
My cousin used to live near Huddersfield, in Slaithwaite. Pronounced Slawwat. Or, if you're very posh, Slathwaite. But never Slaithwaite.
My uncle lived at Slack Bottom. But that's another story...
My FIL was delighted to be asked by a visiting Aussie relative the best way to get to Loogabarooga. Or he was when he worked out what they meant (Loughborough)
IT WAS EMBRA WHEN I LIVED THERE. NEAR DALZIEL STREET. (DEE YELL). AND I SHOPPED AT JOHN MENZIES (MINGISS).
NOW I LIVE NEAR EDENSOR (ENZA).
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If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
I'm trying to think of letters for our pronunciation of Gaelic. It's not gay(way too posh and English). It's more Ghia as in Ford Ghia. Ghialic.
My pal is from Cavan where they have a newspaper called "The Celt" which I (and most normal people) would pronounce Kelt but oh no! Because it's in English the locals call it the Selt!!! Huh?
Always wondered why the football team were selts and the ancient tribe were kelts. I realise the Picts are in there too. Jus' musin'.