Funny/poncy pronunciations of places: things

[orchidsonabudget]

I watched a comedy bit once (that I now can't find) where it was talking about wanky pronunciations of places etc

Batterceya for battersea
claham instead of Clapham
St Ockwell
And they said what next?
Vauzall in stead of Vauxhall 😂

I had a posh friend who would play down shopping at the big shop in Knightsbridge (back in 80s) by calling it HA rods

What others do you know of??

Cholmondley. - Chumley

@Gingaaarghpussy

Happisburgh = haysbruh Hautbois = hobbis Belaugh = byulee My nanna - mange tout = mangee toot Gazebo = gazebo Everything in north norfolk is never pronounced how its spelt, whether its a place or a word.

It's not just north Norfolk, it's Norfolk in general.

Wymondham - windam
Garboldisham - Garbolsham
Costessey - Cossy

@Firebird83 my ILs pronounced it that way. And not as a joke. Now I can't stop reading Lidl as "lye-dells" in my head anytime I see it. Sometimes I think they opened one right across the road from us just to wind me up.

Comedian Tom Allen talking on Soccer Am about going to watch Westham play really tickled me ( pronounced westum)

The owner of a place I worked at years ago pronounced lidl as l - delles!

Giorgio at Asdal. (A mash up of Italian and bristolian ).
Primani, for Primark.
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Featherstoneshaugh - Fanshaw
St John - Sinjun
St Claire - Sinclair

SheaBu - shepherd bush

@Optimist1

St Reatham (Streatham) Ponge (Penge with a French accent)

There is a shop in Penge that makes use of this joke called Penge Tout which I love.

We used to call Dunnes Stores Doonnez Boutique. Sort of a Spanish accent.

A lot of these examples are just people pronouncing things correctly or in their original language which isn't what OP was describing.

@evenBetter

A place called Belvoir that locals pronounce as BEAVER, ffs.

@evenBetter are you in Leicester? Belvoir is pronounced Beaver that there. Really bloody confused me when I was living there. Not at all how it's spelt.

Sounds a bit like Lily Savage. She did the whole Vauxzal part along with having a clinic on Feb Rue de la South Lambert

I was just coming on to say lar-tay, even the servers do it our local Starbucks:

Me: A skinny latty please
Server: Skinny lar-tay coming up
Me: Grrr

I though Lidl was pronounced lie-dl officially, rather than Lid-ul, same as Ikea is Ick-e-ah rather than eye-key-ah, and Primark which is pree-mark rather than pry-mark.

This was a mistake but when I first came to London (non-native English speaker), I've asked someone for directions to Mary-le-bone in some kind of French accent.

Of course latte is lartay I can't even imagine it any other way?!

Lattay. It rhymes with pâté.

An aunt of mine always called co-op ‘quarp’
Drove me mad.
And pronounced primark as ‘pree-mark’

@shittestxmasever

Of course latte is lartay I can't even imagine it any other way?!

No, it’s a shorter ‘a’ sound. Not like ‘lah-di-dah’.

And the surname Marjoribanks is prounounced Marchbanks.

Oh dear, I pronounce Vauxhall as vorks-hall as well
Lidl is lee-dl in German.
Beaulieu is bew-lee instead of bo-lee-uh as written

I used to work with a woman who insisted that Isleworth (izelworth) near Hounslow was pronounced aisleworth as with the Isle of Wight. "um I think you will find it is Aisleworth actually", she lived nowhere near she jusy thought I was an imbecile and liked to loudly correct me at every turn

There's a place near Blyth in Northumberland called Cowpen but it's pronounced coopun.

Try on Gateacre, Aigburth and Fazackerley from my home area...any attempts to poshify those are risible!
Gattaca, Egg-bth, Faz-ack-lee.

My mother also calls the Co-op the quarp! She's from Lancashire.

Edinburgh is pronounced Edinbruh