Pronunciation (was Puddings)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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)

Geoff (again!!)
As a secondary school pupil, I attended Sir Walter St.John's Grammar 
School in Battersea (in Sarf Lunnon). His is, as your example, pronounced 
Sir Walter Sinjuns. Ol boys are known as Old Sinjuns and the school 
magazine was "The Sinjun".

Again, on surnames, Marjoribanks is pronounced Marshbanks.