Speaking 'properly'

[Sarah]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Ali" <Ali at z...> wrote:
 In fact our slang 
> word "berk" is derived from that old pronunciation when part of the 
> phrase "Berkshire Hunt" - one of our rudest pieces of rhyming slang.
> 
> Now I would also look at people twice if they 
pronounced "Berkshire" 
> as anything other than Barkshire. But then I also live in a town 
> called "Reading" which is pronounced as "Redding" - apparently 
after 
> people with Red hair invaded the area centuries and centuries ago. 

> Summoning everyone to Accio in Reading, Berkshire, UK in July 2005 
> http://www.accio.org.uk

I am travelling from "oop north" to Reading this afternoon - very 
tiresome train journey via Birmingham (going home is even worse, into 
London and out again, up to Stoke, then Manchester Piccadilly, might 
be home by midnight!!)
Did the Weasley's invade Berkshire then?  I knew there was a lot of 
them but ...

Sarah xx
PS anything good to do in Reading on a Saturday night?