Trivia: Place names that you're not sure how to pronounce

InOban · 23 Mar 2018

hexagon789 said:
Yes, Horace Batchelor springs to mind with that one.

You're showing your age!

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hexagon789 · 23 Mar 2018

2HAP said:
IJmuiden = Eye-mow-den, with mow rhyming with how.

I read the capital I as an L. That makes a bit more sense seeing the IJ.

hexagon789 · 23 Mar 2018

InOban said:
You're showing your age!

I hope not, I'm really not that old!

Parallel · 23 Mar 2018

I’m not sure how to pronounce Mytholmroyd. My guess is how it is spelt? (Mytholm-royd)?

MG11 · 23 Mar 2018

Parallel said:
I’m not sure how to pronounce Mytholmroyd. My guess is how it is spelt? (Mytholm-royd)?

My (as in my house) thom (as in fathom) royd (as in Roy with a d)

Millisle · 24 Mar 2018

hexagon789 said:
Have we had Athelstaneford, West Lothian or Glenzier, Dumfriesshire?

GLING-er. It is on the border and the associated names on the Cumbrian side are spelt Glinger.
The nearest station was Canonbie on the former Langholm branch.

hexagon789 · 24 Mar 2018

Millisle said:
GLING-er. It is on the border and the associated names on the Cumbrian side are spelt Glinger.
The nearest station was Canonbie on the former Langholm branch.

Yes, Glinger. Oswaldtwistle anyone?

MG11 · 24 Mar 2018

hexagon789 said:
Yes, Glinger. Oswaldtwistle anyone?

Ossle-Twissle, according to Lancastrian Victoria Wood

hexagon789 · 24 Mar 2018

MG11 said:
Ossle-Twissle, according to Lancastrian Victoria Wood

Yep, that pretty much exhausts the ones I can think of at the moment

Lucan · 24 Mar 2018

Calthrop said:
Not about pronunciation; but Laugharne -- much-loved dwelling-place for a while, of Dylan Thomas -- is thought to have been the inspiration for the setting of his Under Milk Wood.

Not "thought" but definitely was, in combination with New Quay in Wales. Some people in those places recognised themselves in Under Milkwood, and were annoyed.

And right now it is the setting for the BBC TV series thriller "Keeping Faith", although the place name is never mentioned

sarahj · 25 Mar 2018

I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but Southern have a new auto guy at Stations, and he has some howlers. Listen at Brighton for his version of Mouslecombe and Southwick. There are others. :lol:

hexagon789 · 25 Mar 2018

sarahj said:
I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but Southern have a new auto guy at Stations, and he has some howlers. Listen at Brighton for his version of Mouslecombe and Southwick. There are others.

I've heard a few announcers of the years make a right mess of place names. I've seen a video filmed at Aberdeen in which one can hear the announcer, reading the calling points for the Aberdeen-Penzance, string Par and St Austell together to form "Par Street Aw-stell"! :lol:

jj1314 · 26 Mar 2018

hexagon789 said:
I've heard a few announcers of the years make a right mess of place names. I've seen a video filmed at Aberdeen in which one can hear the announcer, reading the calling points for the Aberdeen-Penzance, string Par and St Austell together to form "Par Street Aw-stell"!

That's brilliant. "Snozzle" might blow his mind.

Steamysandy · 26 Mar 2018

My favourite was at York many years ago with an announcement for a northbound Aberdeen service which was listed as calling at Kirkcaldy pronounced KirkCaalldy and Leuchars Junction pronounced Looch (as in Choo) ars and the connecting train to Glasgow was calling at Faalkirk!

Parallel · 26 Mar 2018

I've heard Arriva's Welsh announcer refer to Leuchars as "Loosh-arrs". I guess it is actually said a bit like "Lucas"?

Steamysandy · 26 Mar 2018

It's actually pronounced Loochars the CH as in Loch e g Loch Lomond.
A few local ones. Cockenzie is sometimes referred to as Cockinny! I've heard Penmanshiel referred to as Pennyshiel but the prize has to go to a farm near Grantshouse which is spelled Godscroft - pronounced Gowkie !!

hexagon789 · 27 Mar 2018

jj1314 said:
That's brilliant. "Snozzle" might blow his mind.

I dread to think what the guy might make of that! I think he also said Liskeard as Liss-kerd (rhyming with heard), I'll need to see if I can find the video again

PeterC · 27 Mar 2018

I remember the puzzlement by passengers when a Met line driver announced "chess-um". With the flood of incomers after electrification of the Met the "correct" pronunciation is generally forgotten and everybody says "chesh-am" now. In the 1990s I would still be "corrected" by country people when I said "chesh-am"

hexagon789 · 27 Mar 2018

PeterC said:
I remember the puzzlement by passengers when a Met line driver announced "chess-um". With the flood of incomers after electrification of the Met the "correct" pronunciation is generally forgotten and everybody says "chesh-am" now. In the 1990s I would still be "corrected" by country people when I said "chesh-am"

I was under the impression it was Chezz-um rather than Chess-um.

themiller · 27 Mar 2018

philjo said:
It took a while to purchase a ticket from Luzerne to schynige platte when I was in Switzerland a couple of years ago!
Fortunately I had the leaflet with the offer on me so I could show this to the lady in the ticket office. I still didn't get how to properly pronounce it after she then said it!

Schynige Platte is pronounced Shinigger (as in bin) platter!

themiller · 27 Mar 2018

Aspatria station used to be called out by the station staff in the very old days according to the class of carriage that the caller was beside at the time. First class was Haspatria', whilst third was 'Spathry'!

Steamysandy · 27 Mar 2018

The shout out for Maud Junction I was told was simply "MAD"!

AY1975 · 23 Apr 2018

Ibrox subway station in Glasgow (which AFAIK is pronounced "Eye-brox") used to be called Copland Road before the 1977-80 Subway modernisation. Does anyone know whether it was pronounced "Cop-land" or "Cope-land"? The composer Aaron Copland is pronounced "Cope-land".

hexagon789 · 23 Apr 2018

AY1975 said:
Ibrox subway station in Glasgow (which AFAIK is pronounced "Eye-brox") used to be called Copland Road before the 1977-80 Subway modernisation. Does anyone know whether it was pronounced "Cop-land" or "Cope-land"? The composer Aaron Copland is pronounced "Cope-land".

Cope (to rhyme with hope)-land. I've never heard any other pronunciation

Dr_Paul · 23 Apr 2018

hexagon789 said:
I was under the impression it was Chezz-um rather than Chess-um.

I worked with a bloke who grew up near Chesham, and he always pronounced it 'Chezzum'.

hexagon789 · 23 Apr 2018

Dr_Paul said:
I worked with a bloke who grew up near Chesham, and he always pronounced it 'Chezzum'.

Having look this up around the time I posted, it seems it can be Chezz- or Chess-um.

DuncanS · 24 Apr 2018

AY1975 said:
Ibrox subway station in Glasgow (which AFAIK is pronounced "Eye-brox") used to be called Copland Road before the 1977-80 Subway modernisation. Does anyone know whether it was pronounced "Cop-land" or "Cope-land"? The composer Aaron Copland is pronounced "Cope-land".

Its Aye-Brox, the Scottish pronunciation. Copeland Road is Cope-Land

hexagon789 · 24 Apr 2018

DuncanS said:
Its Aye-Brox

What's the difference sorry? I prononce Aye and Eye precisely the same.

DuncanS · 24 Apr 2018

Aye is a harder pronunciation than Eye

hexagon789 · 24 Apr 2018

DuncanS said:
Aye is a harder pronunciation than Eye

Must be an accent thing

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