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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Sometimes the pronunciation of place names was abbreviated in common speech. For example in Shropshire, the village of Attingham was pronounced Atcham. It has now been spelt Atcham for centuries, but Attingham Hall, built in the eighteenth century uses the old spelling and pronunciation. Also in Shropshire, Diddlebury is pronounced Delbury, but Delbury Hall is spelt that way.
I am also intrigued by Middleham.
A limerick to read noting that
CHOLMONDELEY is pronounced CHUMLEY
COLQUOUN is pronounced CARKOON
A young man called Cholmondeley Colquoun
Kept as a pet a babolquhoun.
His mother said, �Cholmondeley,
Do you think it�s quite colmondeley
To feed your babolquhoun with a spolquhoun?�
Don't know where my Mam found it, nor who penned it.
I always heard that if up Manchester way and you get on a bus or ask for directions, don't say where you want to go show them the slip of paper where the address is WRITTEN down!
A long, long time ago I had to travel to an area on the edge of Sheffield called Beaulieu. I found a bus where this was on the front as the destination - the conductor (told you it was a long time ago!) came to take my fare, I asked for a single to 'Bowlyeu'. Oh don't go there, luv, was the reply. But it's written on the front, said I. Ohhhh, Buwleeee.... I got there!
About the same my then b/f went into a baker's and asked for "2 duffnuts, please."
English pronunciation - you open a mine of examples....