Hebden Bridge

[DrFoxtrot]

How is 'Hebden Bridge' pronounced?

Hebden (with an H sound) or Ebden (silent H).

I say it's one way, DP the other

I worked in Hebden and everyone pronounced it Hebden.

Definitely with an H

With a 'H'.

H.

If you live there, with a H, if you're from East Lancs it's "Ebden" (and perhaps if you're from various parts of West Yorkshire too!)

With an H of course.

Should be with the H, but many of us in the vicinity naturally drop a lot of Hs, so that's why you've heard people calling it Ebden.

It's not that the H in Hebden Bridge is silent, or anything like that, it's how people speak.

Likewise, if you come from Harrogate, you'd probably call it Harrow Gate, but if you come from Cleck Huddes Fax, you probably call it arrow git.

Should be with the H, but many of us in the vicinity naturally drop a lot of Hs, so that's why you've heard people calling it Ebden.

I said definitely 'h'. But you're right, if I was saying it in general conversation it might loose the h every now and then, partially depending on the preceding word, "Jim's going in t' Ebden".

Thanks everyone, DP says it with the H I say without as I thought that was how it was supposed to be said! It's not my accent, I'm Lancashire born and bred and don't normally drop the H.

@DrFoxtrot

Thanks everyone, DP says it with the H I say without as I thought that was how it was supposed to be said! It's not my accent, I'm Lancashire born and bred and don't normally drop the H.

Did you think it had aspirations of being French

@GillBungalow oui, possibly

Now do Sowerby Bridge

Well it should have a H but us Yorkies do drop our H’s
And if you are local you drop the “Bridge” too

@JensonsAcolyte

Now do Sowerby Bridge

Sorby Bridge

I'd say Sowerby as it looks

@JensonsAcolyte

Now do Sowerby Bridge

Now do Slaithwaite

Slaithwaite most people get wrong and Keighley as well.

I came on to post of course it’s an h how ridiculous and then said it out loud a few times and I realised I don’t really pronounce the h very much so I’ll get back in my box!! East Lancs born and bred though. In mitigation I can pronounce Birmingham properly unlike some tv presenters who seem to say berminam , as if the letter g is rationed. Love hebden though.

Slaithwaite is Slow it, isn't it, with the slow rhyming with plough.

Slough wit

Or probably “slough it” actually. Dh is from slaithwaite anyway. I’m not!

Hebden with an h. Unless you love it, then it's just 'Ebby'.
Slaithwaite isn't 'sl-ow!- it. It's Slaithwaite. Slay-thwaite.
Sowerby is sow like a pig, but people who think they're it say 'Soh-bi'.
My roots there pre-1700. Not sure how they said it then.

Now do Oswaldtwistle

I grew up in West Yorkshire, me and my brother called Sowby Bridge ‘strawberry fridge’ which is still my preferred name for it (but if your being official ‘saw-bry’ is how I’d say it)

For Hebden Bridge I wouldn’t fully drop the H, but wouldn’t emphasise it, if that makes sense?

How about Mytholmroyd though?!...

Keighley 😂. Nearly always pronounced keeley by people who don't know!

Hebden Bridge - def with an 'h'
Sowerby Bridge - sorby bridge