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Scon not skoan stupid...
Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.
What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? |
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"Scon not skoan stupid...
Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.
What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? "
Not neigh neigh then? |
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I am from Northampton and apparently it has both pronunciations, hence mine of Nen... I hate it when people call my home town North Hampton... There is not 2 aitches in it... And when people say words that end in thing and people say think, instead. Drives me insane and I will correct them   |
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Scone as in Skon is very definitely a Scottish /northern English thing..... Cheese ones are the best but we'll admit to kinda liking the jam and clotted cream ones as favoured in the deep south too lol x |
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"Yet the town is pronouced ScoooooOOOOooooOOOOn.
Why is an harlmess pastry delight the centre of the TWO most tedious "fun" questions in western civilisation?"
Not a harlmess pastry that's a completely different type of pastry. |
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"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai
Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.
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I hear lots of people pronounce it chicargo |
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"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai
Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.
I hear lots of people pronounce it chicargo"
How do Chicagoans pronounce it? |
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By *ogueAngelMan
over a year ago
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"Scon not skoan stupid...
Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.
What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? "
It's pronounced scone (as in stone) until it's eaten, at which point it's scone (gone). I'm satiated in my justification. |
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"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai
Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.
I hear lots of people pronounce it chicargo
How do Chicagoans pronounce it?"
Sshikaago (sort of) |
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"Scon not skoan stupid...
Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.
What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? "
I’m a northamptonian it’s skone and the river nen  |
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Brid’n (Britain)
It is not Brit tn with the emphasis on the T.
Great Brid’n
Not Great BriT Tn
The T is silent.
Circumstins (Circumstance)
Not circum stance.
No emphasis on the A.
Thank you. Phew, I feel better now.  All is right in my world again. |
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"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...
It's spelt with an E in it not an O"
The family name after which the town was named was pronounced Shrowsbury at one time, hence the school being callled Shrowsbury. 
Town folk are stubborn. |
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Annoying pronounced A Nine
Boy pronounced Bye
Toy pronounced Tie
Point pronounced Pint
Alot of Irish do this & these words are totally mis pronounced... If a guy was extremely hot & good looking but if he actually spoke like that... I'd actually go off him involuntarily...  |
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"Annoying pronounced A Nine
Boy pronounced Bye
Toy pronounced Tie
Point pronounced Pint
Alot of Irish do this & these words are totally mis pronounced... If a guy was extremely hot & good looking but if he actually spoke like that... I'd actually go off him involuntarily... "
In defence of the Irish,
they say Trousers not Trowsers,
House not Howse, arguably the correct pronunciation... |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
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Northamptonshire's river is pronounced Nen as far as Peterborough then it becomes Neen.
Official spelling is Nene.
We also have a village called Cogenhoe and that is pronounced Cooknoe, work that one out if you can. |
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"I am from Northampton and apparently it has both pronunciations, hence mine of Nen... I hate it when people call my home town North Hampton... There is not 2 aitches in it... And when people say words that end in thing and people say think, instead. Drives me insane and I will correct them "
You’ve pointed out my bug bear, by spelling/pronouncing it correctly. Aitch. The word aitch doesn’t begin with a letter aitch. |
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"Pacific and specific really pisses me off.
Di-section instead of dissection as well.
I feel better now…"
Pacific/specific is often a sign of Dyslexia, it is related to consonant clusters, people who say this one really can't help it.
I work with people with SpLD and they often find it very frustrating and embarrassing that they can't pronounce it correctly. |
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"Pacific and specific really pisses me off.
Di-section instead of dissection as well.
I feel better now…
Pacific/specific is often a sign of Dyslexia, it is related to consonant clusters, people who say this one really can't help it.
I work with people with SpLD and they often find it very frustrating and embarrassing that they can't pronounce it correctly."
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"I used to live walking through Kings Cross and hearing Alnwick pronounced Aln-wick, made me chuckle every time. "
Londoners do pronounce things differently. The old Londoners pronounce Highgate and Southgate as Highgit and southgit. |
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"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here. "
Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.   |
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"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.
Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar. "
Not sure. I just see it a lot. Don't thinks it’s spell check. “Forfil my fantasies”. Eh?! |
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"I am from Northampton and apparently it has both pronunciations, hence mine of Nen... I hate it when people call my home town North Hampton... There is not 2 aitches in it... And when people say words that end in thing and people say think, instead. Drives me insane and I will correct them "
A bit like Newcastle or New Castle! I’m with you on the thing / think too |
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"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.
Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.
Not sure. I just see it a lot. Don't thinks it’s spell check. “Forfil my fantasies”. Eh?!"
Well, I’d like to try and forfil yours even if I can’t fulfil them!! |
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"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.
Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.
Not sure. I just see it a lot. Don't thinks it’s spell check. “Forfil my fantasies”. Eh?!
Well, I’d like to try and forfil yours even if I can’t fulfil them!! "
 . You can’t. My main one doesn’t involve men |
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"Macabre?
Wrath?
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In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.
I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced? |
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"Forfil instead of fulfil seems to be a common one on here.
Spelt that way? I haven’t noticed that one. Is it bloody spell check? My phone is making a mockery of my vocabulary, spelling and grammar.
Not sure. I just see it a lot. Don't thinks it’s spell check. “Forfil my fantasies”. Eh?!
Well, I’d like to try and forfil yours even if I can’t fulfil them!!
. You can’t. My main one doesn’t involve men "
There you go, I forfilled it apparently. . That must be what it means. The lack of fulfilment. |
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"Macabre?
Wrath?
In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.
Mer car bre is the correct way in both French and English, Americans tend to go with mer carb.
I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?"
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"Macabre?
Wrath?
In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.
I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?
Mer car bre is the correct way in both French and English, Americans tend to go with mer carb.
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I’m afraid I disagree. The French and Brits have a softer r, if at all and the Americans roll the r. |
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"Macabre?
Wrath?
In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.
I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?"
Rath vs roth |
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"Macabre?
Wrath?
In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.
I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?
Rath vs roth"
Ah, yes, now I recall. Thanks. Which is it? |
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"Macabre?
Wrath?
In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.
I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?
Rath vs roth
Ah, yes, now I recall. Thanks. Which is it? "
Roth, unless you're American. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
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"I did a rugby tour to Wymondham a few years ago. Which I was taken to task for calling it why mond um.
And when I was a teen... Jalapeño was jaller pea no.
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I worked near Wymondham in the 1990s and I seem to remember it being referred to locally as Wyndam. |
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"Macabre?
Wrath?
In what sense? I’ve heard macabre pronounced as mer car bre instead of mer carb.
I haven’t a mispronunciation of wrath. How is it mispronounced?
Mer car bre is the correct way in both French and English, Americans tend to go with mer carb.
I’m afraid I disagree. The French and Brits have a softer r, if at all and the Americans roll the r."
I have my fists up ready for a fight...
I worked in Paris many years ago at an establishment which was shall we say ...a little dark.
Most French speakers roll not clip that R....when they get excited it's almost a growl.
I only really have experience of Southern American accents so I can give you that one. |
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"Scon not skoan stupid...
Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.
What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......?
I’m a northamptonian it’s skone and the river nen "
See! |
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"It's LeviOsa, not LevioSA."
Whoop whoop! Hahaha!
Also sorry Pleasure Piercer....Nen and Skon (we disagree in our house but I'm the Northamptonian )
Tabitha xxx (Tab-i-tha)  |
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"Scon not skoan stupid...
Prompted by the war between posh of peterboro and the cobblers of Northampton over how they pronounce the river Nene that passes through both of them..the answer of course is its pronounced Neen.
What words/names/places seem to give people trouble......? "
Skoan as in s-cone. It's not a traffic con is it?!
The river is pronounced nen, at least according to all sat navs and the ordinance survey website!
#mike drop# |
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"Don’t get me started on Bicester
Try Devizes!
And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!"
We also have Towcester and Cogenhoe, most outside Northamptonshire don't know how to pronounce them |
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"Don’t get me started on Bicester
Try Devizes!
And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!
We also have Towcester and Cogenhoe, most outside Northamptonshire don't know how to pronounce them "
I'm up to speed with toaster/towcester but the C one is a mystery to me....... |
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"Don’t get me started on Bicester
Try Devizes!
And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!
We also have Towcester and Cogenhoe, most outside Northamptonshire don't know how to pronounce them
I'm up to speed with toaster/towcester but the C one is a mystery to me......."
Cookno
It's how we find the interlopers....mwah!!! |
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"Here’s the dilemma
Tone - pronounced toan
Cone- pronounced coan
Phone - pronounced phoan
Scone - pronounced scon?"
So how do you pronounce the following?
Gone
Done
None
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"Don’t get me started on Bicester
Try Devizes!
And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!"
Ah, but the Americans spell it aluminun...
Apparently Sir Humphrey Davy, who identified the metal in alum, proposed the name aluminum when referring to the element in his 1812 book Elements of Chemical Philosophy... it was changed to conform with the other ium-endings of a lot of other elements. The Americans are rather slow at catching up. |
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"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...
It's spelt with an E in it not an O
The family name after which the town was named was pronounced Shrowsbury at one time, hence the school being callled Shrowsbury.
Town folk are stubborn. "
Which family is Shrewsbury named after ? |
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"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...
It's spelt with an E in it not an O
The family name after which the town was named was pronounced Shrowsbury at one time, hence the school being callled Shrowsbury.
Town folk are stubborn.
Which family is Shrewsbury named after ? "
There are a lot of enamel railway signs which state "season tickets must be shewn" |
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"Chicago doesn't have an R in it and Dubai isn't pronounced Jewbai
Who pronounced Chicago with an R?? I’m confused.
I guess some might say Chicargo, instead of Chicago."
Then they'd be mispronouncing it!! |
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Shedule or skedule?
Hate jal epeenos as someone else said, and one of my personal favourites...
Tor tilla. It's torteeya. Oh and while I'm on one, it's pie eya, not pie ella. Philistines. Actually, is it philistInes or philisteens? |
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"Shrewsbury V Shrowsbury...
It's spelt with an E in it not an O
The family name after which the town was named was pronounced Shrowsbury at one time, hence the school being callled Shrowsbury.
Town folk are stubborn. "
Luckily, I was born in ManchestA, with R'kid... |
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By *nnCeeWoman
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"Don’t get me started on Bicester
Try Devizes!
And let's not forget the Americans with aluminium - it's not a-loom-in-um.....!
Ah, but the Americans spell it aluminun...
Apparently Sir Humphrey Davy, who identified the metal in alum, proposed the name aluminum when referring to the element in his 1812 book Elements of Chemical Philosophy... it was changed to conform with the other ium-endings of a lot of other elements. The Americans are rather slow at catching up. "
I was going to say the same thing...aluminum in the US, as opposed to our aluminium... |
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"Lingerie.
It ends ree, not rey.
Must admit I pronounce it “rey” isn’t that the proper pronunciation?"
No, French pronounce the é as “ey”, not a normal e.
So words like coupé, resumé end as “ey”, but not lingerie. That’s “ee”, as in mon cherie, boucherie, patisserie, etc. |
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