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Southerners and their odd pronunciation

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mrs_overall | 13:41 Sat 21st Aug 2010 | ChatterBank
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I've got the radio on and a Southerner has just pronounced Yorkshire as "York-sheer".

You say "shire horse" not "sheer horse", so why change it?

Odd!
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I always thought it was meant to be Beddeth looby but now hear loads of people say Bed-worth, same as Keswick, I would pronounce it Kessick but maybe that's just me!
16:31 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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We have Berwick but it's pronounced Berrick.
16:43 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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Yep I would pronounce that Berrick. Also, Bicester=Bisster.
16:45 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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yeah keswick would be kessick to me too sophie .. and yes bicester, bister.

i used to say worc-sest-er-shire when i was young, now its wuster or wustersheer ..

until just the other week, dohhhhh! .. cringe ... lol ...i was thinking a certain welsh town -porthmadog was literally prounounced as that - porth ma dog.
i now know its pronounced as port maddock .. or something like that anyway ... lol ...
16:51 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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One of my medications is clopidogrel - I first pronounced it cloppy dogrel to the doc's amusement. Oh well - anything to keep him happy.
17:20 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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It's the long a / short a that gets me, Southerners are so inconsistent. They say barth for bath but don't say marp for map or cart for cat. What do they say for Elastoplast?
17:31 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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Elastoplarst.

And glarss for glass.
17:35 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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Lurking southerner here lol and in answer to gingejbee. i just call it a plaster :-),
17:40 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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Ah but is that plaster or plarster?
17:43 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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quite a few in the south say Barth, plarstic, cerarmic, but it is always wosp for wasp not waaasp
17:43 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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with the invisible r lol, i have never understood why thats done either, but its the way everyone here says it, just one of those weird dielect things i guess :-)
17:45 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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Love your avatar mrs overall,my sister is ace at impersonating julie waters character,she does it at high powered meetings bringing in the coffee...
17:46 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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Plarster, barth, and wosp.

Definitely not cerarmic though. That's cer-a-mic.
17:47 Sat 21st Aug 2010
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That is probably preferable to impersonating mine poodi!
17:48 Sat 21st Aug 2010

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