Southerners and their odd pronunciation

[mrs_overall]

I've got the radio on and a Southerner has just pronounced Yorkshire as "York-sheer".

You say "shire horse" not "sheer horse", so why change it?

Odd!

[sophie_1003]

I always thought it was meant to be Beddeth looby but now hear loads of people say Bed-worth, same as Keswick, I would pronounce it Kessick but maybe that's just me!

[netibiza]

We have Berwick but it's pronounced Berrick.

[sophie_1003]

Yep I would pronounce that Berrick. Also, Bicester=Bisster.

[looobylooo]

yeah keswick would be kessick to me too sophie .. and yes bicester, bister.

i used to say worc-sest-er-shire when i was young, now its wuster or wustersheer ..

until just the other week, dohhhhh! .. cringe ... lol ...i was thinking a certain welsh town -porthmadog was literally prounounced as that - porth ma dog.
i now know its pronounced as port maddock .. or something like that anyway ... lol ...

[ttfn]

One of my medications is clopidogrel - I first pronounced it cloppy dogrel to the doc's amusement. Oh well - anything to keep him happy.

[gingejbee]

It's the long a / short a that gets me, Southerners are so inconsistent. They say barth for bath but don't say marp for map or cart for cat. What do they say for Elastoplast?

[naomi24]

Elastoplarst.

And glarss for glass.

[lorri24601]

Lurking southerner here lol and in answer to gingejbee. i just call it a plaster :-),

[gingejbee]

Ah but is that plaster or plarster?

[ttfn]

quite a few in the south say Barth, plarstic, cerarmic, but it is always wosp for wasp not waaasp

[lorri24601]

with the invisible r lol, i have never understood why thats done either, but its the way everyone here says it, just one of those weird dielect things i guess :-)

[poodicat]

Love your avatar mrs overall,my sister is ace at impersonating julie waters character,she does it at high powered meetings bringing in the coffee...

[naomi24]

Plarster, barth, and wosp.

Definitely not cerarmic though. That's cer-a-mic.

[ttfn]

That is probably preferable to impersonating mine poodi!