How to say.... (street name)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

My dear old Gran always pronounced Pepys Road in New Cross as Peppies.

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Ondine was an associate of Andy Warhol I think.

The road more likely named after the mythical creature rather than one of the factory crew.

[candj]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> My dear old Gran always pronounced Pepys Road in

> New Cross as Peppies.

That's how I would pronounce it.... then how do you say it? :)

[philiphenslowe]

Peeps as in Samuel Pepys

[Muttley]

Re Pepys Road, here's an old rhyme on the subject (by the way, I go with Peeps, peeps):

There are people I'm told, some say there are heaps,

Who speak of the talkative Samuel as "Peeps";

And some so precise and pedantic their step is,

Who call the delightful old diarist " Peppis";

But those I think right, and I follow their steps

Ever mention the garrulous gossip as "Pepps. "

Yet Wheatley declares that the truth still escapes,

For Pepys was not "Pepps" nor "Peeps"; he was "Papes."

[candj]

Of course, thanks just drew a blank! English not my first language ;-)

[Huguenot]

Crawthew Grove?

Do Scots call it Cray-thur?

[philiphenslowe]

I went to school with a girl from Ondine Road + her grandparents had lived in the road for well over 50 years + pronounced it On-dyne. I belive On-deen is correct though.

Saying that, everyone up my way (Henslowe Road) has always said Wheet-lee Road for the 45 years or so my parents have been there. I've also heard quite a few people referring to Whateley Road as the 'tea gardens'. Apparently years ago it used to be really scruffy + people used to chuck the contents of their teapots in to the street from their front gardens.

[VeryBerryCherry]

This thread is turned into "opinions & @rseholes"

Everyone's got one.

[professordingo]

Thanks for that spot of abuse VBC - I find that offensive. Some of us find discussions like this interesting and informative.

VeryBerryCherry Wrote:

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> This thread is turned into "opinions & @rseholes"

>

[VeryBerryCherry]

professordingo Wrote:

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> Thanks for that spot of abuse VBC - I find that

> offensive. Some of us find discussions like this

> interesting and informative.

>

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No need to find to abusive - it was a joke.

I agree, I am finding it immensely interesting. Especially the etymology, history and the reasons behind them.

It just reminded me of something my old English professer used to say, that's all.

[cate]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Is that pronounced "pee er" or "pee-ear"

> I always pronounced it the way Friern in Friern

> Barnet. "Free urn"

> Now, how dya pronounce De Crespigny?

I know someone with the last name De Crespigny. She pronounces it De Crepknee

[cdonline]

Not a street name or local, but used to work with someone who insisted on prenouncing St John's Wood, Sinjun Wood. One of many things that I didn't like about them.

And my bank don't seem to be able to get Southwark, calling it South Walk.

[jimbo1964]

That 63 voice really annoys me.. Fry_urn indeed. I lived on that road for 20 odd years and it's Free-urn.

[HonaloochieB]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Crawthew Grove?

>

> Do Scots call it Cray-thur?

No. you're all confused, Cray-thur is the Irish pronouciation of 'creature'.

It is. Ask my mum.

[newcoz]

I work on De Crespigny Park and we often get people sending mail to us at Discrepancy Park (which is quite apt really as it often comes from a discrepancy between the way we say it over the phone and the way the person on the other end hears it... ).

[Amelie]

The legend of Ondine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondine_(mythology), also is it 'Bell vwhah' or 'Bee vor' for Belvoir Road?

[Moos]

What about Adys? Is it Aydeez (which suggests possessive: Ady's Road) or Addiss? I was told Aydeez but have heard Addiss many times since.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It's a corruption of the name of the bloke who worked for Alleyn - or something like that. Based on the one d, I pronounce it A-dys as opposed to Addies.

[SimonM]

>>also is it 'Bell vwhah' or 'Bee vor' for Belvoir Road?<<

The former I'd say....."Beauvoir" would be "Beaver"! (stopp sniggering at the back there!):))

[philiphenslowe]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> It's a corruption of the name of the bloke who

> worked for Alleyn - or something like that. Based

> on the one d, I pronounce it A-dys as opposed to

> Addies.

Eynella Road is meant to be a corruption of Alleyn backwards

[nunheadbelle]

What about East Dulwich

is it East Dul-wich or East Dool-wich ;-)

Sorry, just being silly, or si-lee

The Sinjun Wood one is funny >:D<

[macroban]

Neither. It has a silent "w".

[professordingo]

...and the 'ch' is voiced ('dj' not 'tch'). Or does anybody pronounce it DULL-itch (rather than DULL-idj)? I rather like DULL-witch, though (I see a fellow forumite already uses this name). I'm intrigued by Whately Rd being called the Tea Gardens. I wonder what its 21st-century equivalent should be (Teabag Gardens? Fag-end Gardens? At the LL end, anyway.)

[nunheadbelle]

macroban Wrote:

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> Neither. It has a silent "w".

A silent 'w' can be dangerous, you never know when it's going to strike