Belvoir / Beaver

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🤦🏻‍♀️ belvoir is meant to be be beaver. Who the fuck though that was a good idea. I need to move into advertising.

St John being Sinjun raises my eyebrows

You forgot stiffkey!

(Stew-kee)

Menzies pronounced Mingus was a surprise when we moved to Scotland!

Cogenhoe pronounced Cook - No!

We have Belvoir Forest in Belfast, pronounced Beaver.

The Althorp estate in Northamptonshire (Princess Diana's resting place) is pronounced all-trup.

Locals call the Walworth road in South London the Wharf Road. And why Suffuck,instead of South-Wark?

Because it's Norfolk (north folk) and Suffolk (south folk)

What puzzles me is there's Wessex, sussex and Essex but not Norssex. Why?

What puzzles me is there's Wessex, sussex and Essex but not Norssex. Why?

There used to be Middlesex too. Maybe have a dig through history? Perhaps Norssex was there 🤷

Locals call the Walworth road the Walworth road.

It may sound more like Wuh-Wharf admittedly but that's an accent thing, not a pronunciation thing.

I think Middlesex comes and goes.

What about Edinburgh while we are at it!

And Southwark Suthack Cathedral.

Yes, you can tell someone isn't from Leicester if they ask where Bell-voir Street is. Easy mistake though.

There's also a common legend around these parts that there was an Australian who asked the way to Lougabarougah (Loughborough). They sometimes announce it on the trains as Lougabarougah for fun.

Southwell is most definitely not pronounced Suthall by people who live there. It’s South well to locals.

My other favourite Notts one is Gotham, which is pronounced Goat-um.

I live off a Belvoir Avenue. The posh neighbours call it Bel-voir. Us sorry people call it Beaver!

what about Lincolnshire’s Cowbit? Pronounced Cubbit

@OldBeller very true! Leicester born and bred.
Also isn't South Croxton actually pronounced Crowston?

Not a place name but I came across a surname some years ago...Featherstonehough .
Apparently it's pronounced 'Fanshaw.'

I'll stick with bel voir don't think I could ask for a bottle of beaver juice.
Culter is cooter but cults is cults.

Not sure about that, I'm se
London!

I always think invasion during WW2 would have fallen at the first hurdle.

German to local "is this Me Opem"
Local: "no mate it's Mepam (Meopham) shoot him lads"

I see your and I raise you

Uttoexeter

Op you are on the Sarf Circular!

Or are you closer to Green Witch?

Though Beauchief also (correctly) pronounced Bee-chif. It's near Greenhill, which is apparently Greenhill or Grenull, depending on whether you're talking about the social housing estate or the pretty cottages ;)

Ahhh is great fun, around Peterborough we have:

Cowbit = Cubbit.
Wisbech = Wisbeach
Caius = Keys
Benwick = Bennick
Great Wilbraham = Great Willbrum
Manea and Eastrea = Main ee and East tree

One my dh gets wrong is Broughton = Browton he says it like brought on

There are LOADS more

I enjoy trying to work out how to pronounce place names

Or Slaithwaite in West Yorkshire.

Local-ish: Slawit
Proper local: Slat.