In Cornwall you always drop the first syllable but in Devon you stress it, so all the saints in Cornwall are reduced to 'sn' - Snozzle (aka St Austell) - but KINGSbridge and OAKhampton (spelt oke but to avoid people getting confused and thinking okky, which is something to do with darts, isn't it?). I was born in a place called Druth. Although it says Redruth on the signposts. I always assumed this is because everywhere in Cornwall starts with St, Tre, Pol, Pen or Porth so those bits are irrelevant, whereas Devon has loads of bridges, haynes, and bartons, so the distinguishing bit was the first part.
I may have been overthinking it
B3 - I see your Root-am and raise you a Fowey
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Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Here is another one to add to Dove's Norfolk collection. Near our Norfolk cottage is a village called Garboldisham. I have been told that it is also Garbodsham and Garsham.
We went to Cley (Clye)-next-the-Sea today.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Liri - I didn't mean it's only the Cornish that truncate saints. Just that Devonians find Cornish place names more difficult than neighbours generally might and vikky verky.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
My FIL was delighted to be asked by a visiting Aussie relative the best way to get to Loogabarooga. Or he was when he worked out what they meant (Loughborough)
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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I'll raise you Trottiscliffe and Wrotham
In Cornwall you always drop the first syllable but in Devon you stress it, so all the saints in Cornwall are reduced to 'sn' - Snozzle (aka St Austell) - but KINGSbridge and OAKhampton (spelt oke but to avoid people getting confused and thinking okky, which is something to do with darts, isn't it?). I was born in a place called Druth. Although it says Redruth on the signposts. I always assumed this is because everywhere in Cornwall starts with St, Tre, Pol, Pen or Porth so those bits are irrelevant, whereas Devon has loads of bridges, haynes, and bartons, so the distinguishing bit was the first part.
I may have been overthinking it
B3 - I see your Root-am and raise you a Fowey
Last edited: 19 September 2017 20:35:47
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Alnwicks to you raisingirl
Raisingirl, I was brought up in Snorbans. That's in Herts, not Cornwall...
Here is another one to add to Dove's Norfolk collection. Near our Norfolk cottage is a village called Garboldisham. I have been told that it is also Garbodsham and Garsham.
We went to Cley (Clye)-next-the-Sea today.
BL we've always said Garble-sum.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How wude
Liri - I didn't mean it's only the Cornish that truncate saints. Just that Devonians find Cornish place names more difficult than neighbours generally might and vikky verky.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Dove
, I'm even more confused!
We must drive foreigners insane...
My cousin used to live near Huddersfield, in Slaithwaite. Pronounced Slawwat. Or, if you're very posh, Slathwaite. But never Slaithwaite.
My uncle lived at Slack Bottom. But that's another story...
My FIL was delighted to be asked by a visiting Aussie relative the best way to get to Loogabarooga. Or he was when he worked out what they meant (Loughborough)
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”