[HPFGU-OTChatter] Pronunciation (was Puddings)

[Janette]

>
> Geoff:
> You have to get used to a whole raft of odd pronuniciation over
> here - even we locals sometimes get caught out.
>
> Some are generally known ones... A handful of examples spring
> to mind:
>
> Belvoir = 'beever' (which just happens to be in Leicestershire!)
> Milngavie = 'mull-guy' but that one is a suburb
> of Glasgow where anything goes.. :-)
> Then anything with Beauchamp in it (often a double-barrelled
> place name) becomes 'beecham'.


montims:

Amd surnames - a friend of mine has the surname Featherstonehaugh -
pronounced Fanshaw.  St John is famously (thanks to 4 weddings & a funeral)
pronounced Sinjen.  And Menzies, like the leader of the Liberal Party,
pronounced Mingis...  (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4595228.stm for
an explanation of that one)


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