Mispronouncing Student’s Name Now a ‘Microaggression’
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Supporters of the United Kingdom Independence Party are found throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and have a wide variety of accents and dialects, from Scouse to Paki.
I don't know how Stalin, or Сталин, got into this, he was a little after Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin's time.
Some posh people down south pronounce it "Lestersheer" and "Wiltsheer" and "Lancasheer" etc.
In the North West of England people say "Lestersher" and "Wiltsher" and "Lancasher."
Not according to the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Santa Clara County Office of Education.
I'm reminded of the time as a young'n travelling with my folks to the Cape and passing through Worchester MA, billboards advertising local radio and TV stations even spelled it Wooster.
Nope, that happens all the time. The Old Stock only gets their panties in a knot when the crier is non-white.
That just seems to me to be dumbing down the spelling.
In Herefordshire, there's a town called Leominister - which is pronounced "Lemster."
In Norfolk there's a village - where the world's oldest human footprints outside of Africa have been found - called Happisburgh. It's pronounced "Hazebruh."
And that's especially embarrassing on the East Coast where almost everyone is of Scottish of Irish descent
Then there's the spillover to things nautical like forecastle, gunwales, boatswain, fowx-ul, gunnels, and boson
It's one of the reasons why many foreigners find English hard to learn - the plethora of words which are pronounced differently than they're spelt.
I think it's "Mowzul".
The reason the town got its name is because the tiny space between the two piers that lead into the harbour is small like a mousehole.
I think you're right.
The City Hawick in Scotland is pronounced hike.
It's pronounced "hoyk"! I know that because when I was a kid the whole family used to stay in a caravan on a farm in Cumbria for a week or two right near the border with Scotland and sometimes we used to go into Hawick, which is in the Scottish Borders just a few miles or so into Scotland, and have a little walk around the village and go fishing with children's fishing nets in the stream.
Cornwall is a county that is particularly bad for mispronouncing placenames, many of which are probably derived from Cornish, the Celtic language spoken there.
Launceston is pronounced "lansern" by the locals.
Fowey is pronounced "foy."
My favourite mispronounciation is the Nottinghamshire village of Gotham.
Most people naturally assume it is pronounced the same as Gotham in Batman. But it's actually pronounced "goat ham" (its name means "goat home" in Anglo-Saxon).
Gotham City is named after the village - it's no coincidence.
The village is most famed for the stories of the "Wise Men of Gotham". These depict the people of the village as being stupid. However, the reason for the behaviour is believed to be that the villagers wished to feign madness to avoid a Royal Highway being built through the village, as they would then be expected to build and maintain this route. Madness was believed at the time to be highly contagious, and when King John's knights saw the villagers behaving as if insane, the knights swiftly withdrew and the King's road was re-routed to avoid the village.
One of the mad deeds seen by the knights was a group of villagers fencing off a small tree to keep a cuckoo captive from the Sheriff of Nottingham. One of the three pubs in the village is known as the "Cuckoo Bush Inn".
Reminded of the foolish ingenuity of Gotham's residents, Washington Irving gave the name "Gotham" to New York City in his Salmagundi Papers (1807). In turn, Batman co-creator Bill Finger named the pastiche New York home of Batman, Gotham City.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham,_Nottinghamshire
