How to say.... (street name)

[macroban]

> I'm intrigued by Whately Rd being called the Tea Gardens. I wonder what its 21st-century equivalent should be

Le Chandelier Boulevard

[HonaloochieB]

Is there a Featherstonehaugh Road in the area?

[Pierre]

Is there a Featherstonehaugh Road in the area?

wow - if there was, how would we pronounce it?

Mrs. Pierre has just authoritatively said it's "de crep nee"...

: P

[philiphenslowe]

Pierre Wrote:

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> Is there a Featherstonehaugh Road in the area?

>

> wow - if there was, how would we pronounce it?

>

> Mrs. Pierre has just authoritatively said it's "de

> crep nee"...

>

> : P

Fanshaw. Ridiculous, I know.

[Nero]

I've always said Dull-itch and not Dull-idge. Is that terribly milk in first of me?

[professordingo]

Nero Wrote:

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> I've always said Dull-itch and not Dull-idge. Is

> that terribly milk in first of me?

Are you a Londoner? I'm intrigued to know whether this is a more 'local' pronunciation (like GRIN-itch for Greenwich, which R4's Charlotte Green says, incidentally, and she's very RP). I always say DULL-idj (and GREN-idj), but then I'm from Brighton (local pron BROY-?uhn)!!

[philiphenslowe]

professordingo Wrote:

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> Nero Wrote:

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> > I've always said Dull-itch and not Dull-idge.

> Is

> > that terribly milk in first of me?

>

>

> Are you a Londoner? I'm intrigued to know whether

> this is a more 'local' pronunciation (like

> GRIN-itch for Greenwich, which R4's Charlotte

> Green says, incidentally, and she's very RP). I

> always say DULL-idj (and GREN-idj), but then I'm

> from Brighton (local pron BROY-?uhn)!!

I'm from East Dulwich and went to school in Greenwich + I say Dul-idj and Gren-itch

[aliceb]

>>The former I'd say....."Beauvoir" would be "Beaver"

I always say Bell-vwhah, but apparently it is Beaver, like the castle. Someone taking down my address once said there are probably loads of other streets locally named after castles. Which explains why someone would call a street Barry.

[HonaloochieB]

aliceb Wrote:

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> >>The former I'd say....."Beauvoir" would be

> "Beaver"

>

> I always say Bell-vwhah, but apparently it is

> Beaver, like the castle. Someone taking down my

> address once said there are probably loads of

> other streets locally named after castles. Which

> explains why someone would call a street Barry.

So it's not named after the bloke who runs the off-licence and me then?

That's a diappointment for us both.

[PeckhamRose]

I say Dull-itch but then I grew up in Margit, which is near Ramsgit.

[annaj]

I say Dull-itch.

I'm from Saarf London originally, but mostly grew up in a village near Wotton-under-Edge (WO-un-NUN-dredge) which explains most of my pronouciation anomalies.

[Keef]

I grew up on Whateley Road, and it is definitely Waitlee, and Friern is FreeUrn.

I say Dull-Itch.

[DaveR]

Barry Road = Sir Charles barry, architect of Dulwich (dull-itch) College and Houses of Parliament

[Jamma]

Does one pronounce Etherow St - Eth-e-row, or Eathrow (like Heathrow but without the H)? It's a stupid name either way

[macroban]

Eth-row

[HonaloochieB]

Eth-e-row

[PeckhamRose]

But is that "row" as in boat or "row" as in fight?

[macroban]

Any south east London south west of the Old Kent Road pronunciation that does not discard a redundant syllable is suspect.

Eth-roe

[Added example: "I went shopping in Cam-well"]

[EDOldie]

I've always pronounced Woodwarde Road as 'Wood Wood' but I've heard a few say 'Wood ward' or even 'wood ward e'

[Michael Palaeologus]

What about Muchamp(e) (? has it got an "e" on the end? cant remember, I am in Sunderland - pronounced "Soonderlandyabuggerman") Road.

Is that "Mewcham", "Moocham", "Meecham"? Is the "P" silent?

What?

[macroban]

> I've always pronounced Woodwarde Road as 'Wood Wood'

Me too.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Moo-shon[g] Rd

[Nero]

Balchier Road is a hard one. Is it Bal-cheer, Bal-kee-uh, Bawl-cheer, Bawl-kee-uh?

[macroban]

Ball-sher

[professordingo]

BAL-cheer is how i've heard it, although I'm not originally a local, so don't know whether that's the usual pron. What about Bassano St? buh-SANN-oh (-uh as in 'the', -oh as in 'no')?

[edited because the original sounded rather brusque and wasn't intended to!!]