How do you pronounce Coleridge?

[NightShoe]

Please forgive my apparent stupidity, but is it Coll-er-ridge, Cole-ridge or something else because I don't have a clue.

[Lilymaid]

Coh -le -ridge

[MrsBadger]

COH- l'-ridge

[Tidey]

John-son.

I don't know why I put that. I say it MrsBadger's way.

[Heathcliffscathy]

isn't it cool-ridge?

what do i know though...

[steamedtreaclesponge]

Yep, like MrsBadger says

[NightShoe]

Thank you, as I thought!

[OrmIrian]

Coal ridge.

And I should know. He was an ancestor of mine I'll have you know! Dad and DB have Coleridge as one of their middle names

[NightShoe]

Oh! Now I am all confused again!

[Ponders]

Orm's coal ridge & Mrs B's COH- l'-ridge sound the same, don't they?

[MrsBadger]

I voice the L, jsut sligthtly

[OrmIrian]

Having said that I never met the guy in person. He may well have pronounced his name Blenkinsop for all I know

[thumbwitch]

I say it the same as MrsBadger does.

[GrimmaTheNome]

It would depend what he was on at the time, Orm.

[OrmIrian]

Indeed grimma!