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.

We have an estate agent (Herts) that I pass on the way to work. I’m guessing they pronounce it Beaver too. I know the pronunciation due to the Belvoir hunt, they’re quite well known.

Milngavie in Glasgow pronounced Mil-guy.

The letting agent is definitely Bell-voir. And I'd avoid them tbh!

It's absolutely Suthell! Inc the racecourse!

I only drive past them, not selling or looking to rent/buy currently. Why do you think they should be avoided? I’ve never had any dealings, but am planning a radical move in a couple of years.

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

'Cos the Saxons didn't get far enough up country. Not that that excuses them. They should have gone for the full set. We're also missing Weffolk and Effolk.

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Definitely suthall from my experience.

Bristol has some interesting local pronunciation- brissal normally. I get laughed at by friends for saying this and other places in Home Counties accent

I grew up in Nottingham, everyone I knew called Southwell Suthell.

And Cley! And costessey 😂

Not a place name, but my son was about 8 when he first saw chihuahua written down and pronounced it as Chi-hoo-har, it is now the only way we will pronounce that dog breed 🤣

There's a village in Worcestershire called Drakes Broughton and it's pronounced "Brought-un" so your husband would be correct if he visited.

Excuse me??!

My was about 5 when he called one a cheeky wow wow. It is now our standard name for them.

@Whatthetrolley DC came home to say the new Prime Minister was Tresemme

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/lettings-agent-hinckley-fined-after-5354767#amp-readmore-target

Sorry not relevant to the thread, but if you want to hear the gossip...

I don't know if it's all their offices but this happened near me. I've heard very bad things myself too. I'd never trust the company in general if they're breaking the law.

Newtownards = newt-nards

I have always wondered how the village of Huish Episcopi is pronounced.

'Ish Epi-scupee'?

I’m going to hope that was just a rogue employee. What a thing to do!

Hyoo-ish Eh-piss-cuh-pee
AFAIK. Cousins live down the road.

Unless you live in Jersey in which case Beaulieu us very much bow-le-uh

@Eminybob well it made my husband and I laugh as we pronounced it the French way, only to be corrected by locals! The Beaulieu I mean is in Hampshire.

I would pronounce it Ming-ees. I used to live near Castle Menzies in Perthshire and that's how all the locals would say it.

Chapel of Garioch in Aberdeenshire is pronounced Chapel of Gear-ee. There are loads of other great ones nearby.

I’m nearby and have friends from there. I’ve only ever heard it called Suthall by locals, never anything else.

Belvoir was news to me too until the ad. I’d heard of Belvoir Castle but never seen it written down so never made the connection.

I also struggled with a local pub called Mainwaring. Again, I grew up on Dads Army so knew it is pronounced Mannering but hadn’t seen it written down until my late teens.

my late father in law always referred to Loughborough as Loogie Baroogie and I fail to see anything else now.

In Northumberland we have Alnwick ('annick') which is not to be confused with the town of Anick, also in Northumberland...

Up here in NE England there's also:

Cambois ('kammis')
Ulgham ('uffam')
Ponteland (which is not 'ponty-land' but 'pont-eel'nd)
Cowpen ('coop'n')
Prudhoe (more like 'prudder')

And plenty of others