Speaking 'properly'

[Karen Barker]

>Laydi Lindi (I think!) wrote:
>
> I've even gotten used to Hertfordshire.  The one name that still 
>cracks me up is Beaconsfield.  I was told very quickly that it is not 
>pronounced Bee-cons-feeld but rather Beck-ons-fell or Beck-on-vell, 
>depending on the person's accent.  LOL

Ah, now I've recently moved to the East Midlands from Herts and I call 
it Beck-ons-feeld!!!!  My favourite one in Herts is Chesham Bois, which 
I thought was pronounced as in French for wood, but it's actually 
Chesham Boys!!!  That's what comes of having a language which has been 
cobbled together from English, Saxon, Norse, Greek, Latin, Norman 
French and who knows what else, I suppose!  

Karen