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Why is st.john pronounced

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 19/10/2013 10:42

Serginon?

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PlainLardy · 19/10/2013 12:34

Also, I know Wymondham = Windum and Happisburgh = Hazebruh but how do you say Garboldisham?

TheNunsOfGavarone · 19/10/2013 12:34

MsWazowski how did St Maur pronounce his/her? name?

I didn't realise there was an alternative pronunciation of Seymour until I read Miranda Seymour's extraordinary book about her father, In My Father's House. He pronounced it "seema" to rhyme with Lima and hated it when people said "see more" Confused

PlainLardy · 19/10/2013 12:30

Fascinating thread! The fanshaw one has me utterly perplexed. What about Marylebone? I've heard it pronounced as it's spelt but also as Mar-lebone and Marri-lebone. Which one is correct?

FannyMcNally · 19/10/2013 12:27

Menzies/Mingis

IHatePingu · 19/10/2013 12:22

Pretty much anywhere in Norfolk...Wymondham, Happisburgh, Garboldisham

bundaberg · 19/10/2013 12:21

Beaulieu is pron. bew-lee

GillyBillyWilly · 19/10/2013 12:12

My cat is called beaver and I always regret not spelling it as belvoir! Mainly just to confuse people Smile

As to WHY my cat is called beaver... That's another story for another day!

snice · 19/10/2013 12:11

Caius

Bowlersarm · 19/10/2013 12:09

Apile - singeing as you 'singe' something with your iron

snice · 19/10/2013 12:07

Gonville & Gaius college

Alisvolatpropiis · 19/10/2013 12:02

*aren't!

Alisvolatpropiis · 19/10/2013 12:02

The oxford colleges are pronounced as they look?

Wait - one is Keys isn't it? Looks like something else entirely though I can't currently remember what.

snice · 19/10/2013 12:01

Surely Beaulieu is Byew-lee

RevelsRoulette · 19/10/2013 11:59

I didn't know that. Saint Clair is an actual name? Not just Clair?

How is it pronounced?

Oh. Is is sinclair?

Apileofballyhoo · 19/10/2013 11:58

I think I remember somebody posting quite an amusing rhyme about the Oxbridge college pronunciations at some stage. It only rhymed if you knew them (which I didn't initially).

Apileofballyhoo · 19/10/2013 11:55

So, is it like singe-n (as in slightly burning)? How do I differentiate between singeing and singing? Is that how?

AdamantEve · 19/10/2013 11:54

Some of these are absurd! I have definitely always pronounced Belvoir as Bell Voir in my head, learn something new every day!
I'd never heard of St John as a name until Roy's Dad cropped up in Corrie - I'm clearly not even slightly posh Grin

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 19/10/2013 11:53

Revels
Saint Clair has too
No idea why some and not others

Theironfistofarkus · 19/10/2013 11:51

Wow! They weren't joking! My DH didn't believe me when I told him that and he's quite posh so thought he must be right.

MsWazowski · 19/10/2013 11:51

I used to know someone with the first name spelt St Maur, pronounced Seymour. These posh pronunciations are confusing, I'll never remember them Grin

RevelsRoulette · 19/10/2013 11:46

Because it would be ridiculous to call your baby Saint John? Grin

But it is Saint John, isn't it? That's where it comes from. I wonder why that's become a name and not St Paul, or St Matthew, or St Boris, etc.

DreaduCated · 19/10/2013 11:45

And isn't Mainwaring pronounced Mannering?

Bowlersarm · 19/10/2013 11:45

Featherstonehaugh = Fanshaw

And

Marjoribanks = Marchbanks

Theironfistofarkus · 19/10/2013 11:42

Yup Confused. There really are people with that first name.

Someone once told me that Featherstonehaugh was pronounced Fanshaw. I thought they were joking. Were they or not?

sassytheFIRST · 19/10/2013 11:42

Beaulieu is another one (place name, not person though).

Pron. Beelee

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