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.

Greenwich =Grinnitch

If you head to Belvoir from where I live you will also pass through Croxton Kerrial, pronounced Crowston Kerrial...also same for Sproxton.
No idea if its true but someone told me the locals changed the pronunciation to annoy the French back in Norman times.
Its quite posh round those parts, so we say we are going to 'bel-voir darling'

It's a minefield! In my experience, everyone from the surrounding areas says Suthall (I grew up swimming at Suthall baths), but people who live there say Southwell.

The most pretentious person I've ever worked with became very agitated when I called where he lived Suthall

Southwell is a family name for some parts of my family - and they are regularly asked if they pronounce it Suthall or South well.

I saw the ad for the Belvior Cordial too, it totally confused me as to why they were saying Beaver.

We looked here as a wedding venue. I thought it sounded so nice with its french name and then when we showed up ‘welcome to Hobbis!’ 😂

Buccleugh = Buckloo.

How about Featherstonehaugh as a last name, pronounced “Fanshaw”.

Hautbois is French for oboe - high wood

Whitefriargate is pronounced White-Fri-Gate.
Just around the corner is Blackfriargate, pronounced Black-Friar-Gate.

Could at least stick to the same rules 😂

A vet I know told me that she broke up the word chihuahua so she'd spell it correctly- chi hua hua.

Reminds me of the ancient joke:

If the name Cholmondeley is Chumley then how do you pronounce Bottomley?

Which pronunciation do they use?

In my opinion it's south well if you're originally from there and suthall if you're not (even if you're very local) although there is an element of posh to it

Marylebone is said differently by different Londoners;

Marry-Le-bun
Mah -Le-bun (long ‘a’ like in ‘far’)
Mah-Le-bone

Plaistow is Plah-stow (long ‘a’)

Tottenham is Tot’nam (or To’nam with glutteral stop!).

None if these are as weird as Belvoir/Beaver, though

They use south well - and they always joke about the element of posh being why they pronounce it that way.

Still can't spell these so glad you got there first!

Allesley confuses some as well though not as bad. Ors lee.

Ascot - Ascut

We have some corkers in Manchester.

Besses 'o 'th Barn (Bissis Ut Barn)
Altrincham (All Tringum or just Alty)
Rusholme (Russhum)
Timperley (Tim Pilly)
Moss Side (Mosseyed)
Levenshulme (Levy)
Ashton Under Lyne (Ashtin Oonderline)
Piccadilly Gardens (Picky Dilly Gyaaardenz)

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

WHAT? Hooooww? That's done my brain in.

Not living in the UK I find the following
Cholmondeley. Chumley
Worcester Wuster
Berkeley. Barclay
Menzies. Mingus ???
Beauchamp Beecham
Magdalen College Maudlin- really ?
Althorp. Althrup

Dalziel- de-ell

You ever tried to get spell checker to correct De zell? Took me ages i knew it had a z in it but..

Sweating like a Belvoir

It once took me and DH a very long time to find somewhere called Hoick on the map as he needed to revel there. It’s Hawick. There’s also Slaithwaite of course for those up north (pronounces Slawit).