Are you in Devon/ Cornwall? How do you pronounce Launceston?

[Fordian]

Genuinely interested.

I grew up with a very definite way from my mum and her sister, and subsequently, born '31, 33 and '45; but I don't hear it pronounced that way anymore.

How would you pronounce it (phonetically)?

Lan-son

Definitely

@Ughmaybenot

Ooo I have another …. Biddeford is (I think) pronounces Bid eh fud - please correct me if I’m wrong Pronunciation is right, spelling is wrong, only two ‘d’s in Bideford.

Sorry! I realised that after I posted!!!! 🤦‍♀️

Bid e fud

Try Woolfardisworthy!

Wool ser eee (Woolsery)

Not sure if that's it's nickname given how far apart it is from the original spelling

My son lives in Lan son,thinkI will call it Lawn cess ton from now on,has a certain ring to it.

I would say lawn-ston but DM would say lan-sun or lan-sum

As a Cornish maid I always say Lansen. Also Snozzle and Snives and Foy and many other contractions 😀

I’ve traveled and lived all over the world but still come home to Trurrer, also been known to sing the Cornish anthem but prefer Cornwall, my home to Trelawny.

@elQuintoConyo

Lawnst'n similar to pp ^

I agree. This is area my dad's from, and the only way I've heard it being pronounced.

I prefer Cornwall, my home, too.

I pronounce it Lawnstun but I think locally it's Lansun

@Kezzie200

I prefer Cornwall, my home, too.

It’s beautiful isn’t it @Kezzie200

Lanson me ‘ansum.

I’d actually probably saw Launston, with a very light T sound.

Thanks everyone!

I say Lanson!

My mother went to school there and I still have many relatives there, who also say Lanson!

As a Cornish maid I always say Lansen. Also Snozzle and Snives and Foy and many other contractions
I always have to think twice when people don't call them by the above but then I remind myself that I probably still massacre the odd Welsh place-name without meaning too.

Mousehole = mow-zel

In Northaptonshire, Cogenhoe is pronounced cook-no. There are loads more, eg Godmanchester is gumster.

If you don't have a Cornish accent for the rest of the words you are going to say, you sound stupid pronouncing it Lan sen.
When Cornish people do it, it sounds right.
Lawns-ton is how most people seem pronounce it.

I spent many a Saturday in Launceston hoping against hope somebody had opened a new shop there as a teenager as my mother had an unholy love for Normans so we went there a lot. (not sure if it's still there but was a very cheap supermarket.)

What about Hewaswater? How do you say that?

@ElGuardiandenoche - How else do people say Fowey?!

My friends mother moved down a few years ago. She is quite posh and used to say “St Aurstell” until her children told her to stop it

Lawnst’n, husband says lansun. He’s from there so he’s allowed I’m from Fowey.

@Trethew

What about Hewaswater? How do you say that?

Hues-water

[quote EnchantedWoods]@ElGuardiandenoche - How else do people say Fowey?![/quote]
Visitors usually say Fow - ee. With the fow rhyming with cow.

Lawn-ston but a lot of Cornish people I know say lanson

If you're from North Cornwall, Lanson.

Anywhere else? Lawnston.

(Born and raised in West Cornwall, mother is from North Cornwall, I now live a short distance from Launceston in West Devon and used to work in the town)