to think that "local" news reporters should be able to pronounce "local" place names

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I am keeping track of local radio traffic and travel news, but if i have to hear wrotham pronounced as "roth - hum" once more I will scream

it is "ROUTE-um", OK

these people are supposed to have good local knowledge !!!

no one else bothered by this then?

come on, tell us your pet hate mis-said place names

Can't think of any in the same way as yours but there are a few colloquial ones:

Penshaw - Penshah
Jarrow - Jarrah
Prudhoe - Prudah

ooo i used to live in Jarrow - in 1979/80 LOL

Friern Barnet. Should be pronounced Free-ern not Fry-ern. It was Thatcher's constituency so they should learnt how to say it in 79.

Ooo why did you leave? Hope you didn't go doon soof

YANBU
'Tis local news, for local people. We'll have no trouble here!!

I've heard quite a few people round here (locals) getting Towcester wrong.......

no cheating if you know it/live local - but how do you reckon you say that one

Hmm is it tow-ster

Glaaaaastonbury is Gl'ah'stonbury and Bath is B'ah'th.

Well Wrotham looks a lot like Rote ham so it could be worse

juney - yes - or Toaster as the locals like to spell it lol.

I have to confess we'd been living in the county for a bout 2yrs or so and kept hearing about this "Toaster" and wondered WTF they were on about

Ooo I just went along the same lines of Worcester or Wooster

OK, so what do you reckon this says, you clever lot...

Trottiscliffe - NO GOOGLING!!!

i feel sorry for kids at school there being taught how to spell phonetically!

Juney - moved round a lot as a kid cos of dads job - am a yorkshire lass originally but ended up marrying a southerner and now live in kent

The BBC reporter called said Shrewsbury as in shrew the other night, I am sure it's pronounced "shrowsbury"

I live in Cheshunt and quite a few people pronounce it "Chesh -unt" rather than "Ches- Hunt"

ah, now I happen to know that shrewsbury/shrosbury is one where even the locals do not agree - both are accepted

trottiscliffe = tro-zli (as in throwz-lee)

They're often not that local though - I travel a fair way to work and get 'local travel' news for about 3 different radio stations during my journey. They cover an area that is at least 100 miles from East to West (not sure how far North to South) and it's the same guy doing all of them, I've even heard him doing travel news for somewhere a lot further away a few times on my travels.

My guess is there are only a handful of travel reporters covering the country and they do one report after another for all the different stations in their 'patch'.

considering that there's a train station at Borough Green and Wrotham on the South Eastern line, there's no excuse for anyone living in Kent of London to get that one wrong. the lady says it every time the train stops!

or london!!
doh!

I read that they have, at some point in the distant past asked the locals (probably the council or something) how to pronounce. and that's how they have their pronunciations.

Don't know how true that is.

SLightly off the subject but I once came across an American, who having proudly managed to pronounce Gloucester and Worcester correctly was flummoxed as to what he should do with Cirencester.

Woolfardisworthy in Devon - have a guess on that one.

Any takers for pronouncing Milngavie (near Glasgow)?

Milngavie - minvie (wild guess)

I pronounce it Chesunt and I'm from Loughton. That'll mean nothing to you people who aren't from round here.

btw I was a local reporter and my specialist subject is the exact boundaries of Essex, East London and the East End - though that term makes me cringe.

I'm most likely to shout at the radio: 'Get a fucking A-Z and put it on exes.'