Jane Eyre- Rochester

[HollowEgg]

How do you pronounce Rochester?

Ive always read it as Roh Chester but listening to it on Audible and she pronounces it RoT Chester.

Have I been wrong all these years?

If you live near Rochester then you would know it’s pronounced Rot-chester

This is not true. It’s Rot-chester. I was brought up in the Medway towns. Absolutely no locals call it Roh-chester. Just no

Can't believe this is still going.....

Roh as in rhyming with no? Or oh?

My mind is honestly blown!

As usual with pronunciation threads, everyone is talking past each other. I think everyone is basically pronouncing it the same but transliterating it differently!

Roh to rhyme with the joh sound in Johnson.

Ro-chuh-stuh
That's how I have always pronounced the town too.
Short o sound as in pop, and the e in Chester is less emphasised than it would be in Chester itself.

Definitely not Row-ches-ter

I found out just recently that the river in Rochdale is Roch pronounced roach

English is honestly mad!

The thing is, most people when they see ‘oh’ will pronounce it as in ‘oh my god’, not with a short ‘o’ sound as in ‘dog’. So if you say you pronounce it ‘Roh-Chester’, people will think you mean the first pronunciation and not the second. As I said upthread, I think everyone is actually pronouncing it the same but writing the sound differently!

I pronounce No and Oh the same.

Yes. This.

So how does the audio book actually pronounce it??