I know a poor sod who lives there; Bentonville to be precise.
Misuse of English as she should be spoken.
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Any none locals know how to pronounce Chop Gate, N. Yorks.
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Some Scottish place names that our English visitors have difficulty with and their phonetic solutions as near as I can get them:
Kilmacolm - Kill-ma-comb
Kingussie - Kin-u-sea
Peterculter - Petercooter
Lesmahagow - Les-ma-hay-go
Alford - the Scottish one, not the one in Lincolnshire - Af-ford
Kilconquhar - Kin-uck-are
Culzean- Kull-ane
Garioch - Gear-ree
Findochty - Fin-eck-tay
Freuchie - Froo-kay
...and for amusement we have Dull near Aberfeldy and Twatt in Orkney.
Kilmacolm - Kill-ma-comb
Kingussie - Kin-u-sea
Peterculter - Petercooter
Lesmahagow - Les-ma-hay-go
Alford - the Scottish one, not the one in Lincolnshire - Af-ford
Kilconquhar - Kin-uck-are
Culzean- Kull-ane
Garioch - Gear-ree
Findochty - Fin-eck-tay
Freuchie - Froo-kay
...and for amusement we have Dull near Aberfeldy and Twatt in Orkney.
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The one that always amazed me was Coire an t-sneachda in the Cairngorms. Apparently it’s pronounced Corry an Trech!
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Cor na ciche
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Friend worked in Orkney for a while and went to Twatt, he got talking to a bloke in a pub who told him that Twatt was a surname but over the years most people changed their name and it was hard to find one these days. He concluded by saying he was the only Twatt left on the island!! Mate often wondered if it was fact or the bloke was just taking the piss..
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Which leads nicely on to double entendre, all the funnier if they don't know:
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Amazingly this is still a genuine website: www.speedofart.com
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Fart is the Danish for Speed!CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 8:41 pmAmazingly this is still a genuine website: www.speedofart.com
One more item from my infinite stock of trivia.
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Another genuine one. http://www.penisland.net
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I grew up in Southport, then Lancs. now Merseyside for crissakes ! Between the suburbs of Hesketh Park and Churchtown was aPratts Bottom, pronounced just as written, but who the hell wants to admit living there?
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Too scared to open that one with might I might see mate.
Doubt others will open it too!
Re: Misuse of English as she should be spoken.
there's also instances where English has taken something foreign and Anglicised it. On the A46 is a village called Petty France, which probably started life as "Petit" (possibly with an e on the end).
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Western Australia - says it all really. A year or so ago there was a fatal crash involving kids in a stolen car at the crossroads where this store is and the headline in the paper read “Fatal accident by Total Tools” I suspect that the wording wasn’t accidental.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 6:15 pmWhich leads nicely on to double entendre, all the funnier if they don't know:
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Petty France ? Wasn't that - is it still - the address of the UK Passport Office ?
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It moved in 2002 according to Dr Google. Seems it's also a street name in London (which is where the UK Passport Office was). Probably the same root name though, although it might have been that a sign maker didn't know French and went for the closest English word.ExSp33db1rd wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:58 amPetty France ? Wasn't that - is it still - the address of the UK Passport Office ?
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Oil Mill Lane, just off the A4 West London has always intrigued me
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