Speaking 'properly'

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Karen Barker" 
<karenabarker at y...> wrote:

Karen:
> 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!  

Geoff:
Having lived in London for 45 years before defecting to Somerset, I 
always called it "Beconsfield" - like you.

Don't forget there's also Theydon Bois, near Epping which, although 
Essex is not a million miles from Chesham Bois.