I agree PP just catching up with all the posts again. Thanks to Joyce & Fairy for the corrections that's what happens when you rely on a 30 year old memory of a verbal re-counting of a story!
Maybe that is how so many of these "alternative" spellings & pronunciations start.
Muddle up when can I get the train to stake my claim
See being from sarf Lunnon meeself an not avvin a clessical ejucation annall I carnt do it propper annat
I remember an episode of "Candid Camera". years ago when an Indian gentleman was stopping people in the City of London asking for directions to "Kee-ap- siddy". After a minute or two of baffling dialogue, he pulled out a letter showing the address he was looking for - in Cheapside.
I used to know a German lady who lived in London with her British husband. From time to time they were visited by Hannelore's mother who lived in a small village in Germany and loved to explore the big London shops. Returning from one of these excursions, she said "Tom, we have been to some wonderful shops, Hannelore took me to Kanitts-brid-ga.". We know it better as Knightsbridge.
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Has Liskeard got a high fort? The mispronunciation made me think of the Cornish Celtic origins.
Yes it does (or did). What would the Cornish origin be?
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Lis -fort ard - high
Coo. The things you learn on a Garden Forum.
I agree PP just catching up with all the posts again. Thanks to Joyce & Fairy for the corrections that's what happens when you rely on a 30 year old memory of a verbal re-counting of a story!
Maybe that is how so many of these "alternative" spellings & pronunciations start.
Muddle up when can I get the train to stake my claim
See being from sarf Lunnon meeself an not avvin a clessical ejucation annall I carnt do it propper annat
Oops I seem to have killed this thread- didn't mean to.
Perhaps it's just having a rest, Iain - no doubt we'll revive it when something new irritates us...
The latest from Sally Satnav.
Clovelly, pronounced cli velly, she thinks is Clove ly.
She told me to go down Snowdrop Cree Sent this morning. I'd have thought Crescent wasn't too unusual a word for a Sat Nav?
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I remember an episode of "Candid Camera". years ago when an Indian gentleman was stopping people in the City of London asking for directions to "Kee-ap- siddy". After a minute or two of baffling dialogue, he pulled out a letter showing the address he was looking for - in Cheapside.
I used to know a German lady who lived in London with her British husband. From time to time they were visited by Hannelore's mother who lived in a small village in Germany and loved to explore the big London shops. Returning from one of these excursions, she said "Tom, we have been to some wonderful shops, Hannelore took me to Kanitts-brid-ga.". We know it better as Knightsbridge.
A French Canadian was listening to a tune with the words: # for I still love you#
She asked us why was someone singing: #Forest Hill, I love you.#
Forest Hill's ok but it's not worth singing about.