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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We don’t have names like that up here @Hostafan1 ... we have Happisburgh which no one can find cos it’s pronounced Hazebru 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Bit like Oswaldtwistle then - pronounced Ozletistle.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    And we have Wymondham ... pronounced Windum, and Hautbois pronounced ‘Obbis 🙄

    Plus Cley rhymes with fly and Salthouse is pronounced Sallus. 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    At least we have the decency to put translations on our road signs. :p
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Don’t !!! I was new to Norfolk and trying to organise a studio map for the county’s Open Studios. How was I to know that Salhouse and Salthouse were two different villages, at opposite sides of the county, and not a typo? :flushed: 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Bi lingual road signs are fine - so long as you’re in the office

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm
    Rutland, England
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Same down here with place names Holsworthy - Holsry.   Launceston - Lanson.  
    Woolfardisworthy - Woolsery. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I like that last one!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Where I used to live in Sussex, there are a lot of place names ending in -ly, such as Hellingly, Ardingly.  Only local people know that they rhyme with eye, not pea as you'd expect.  It's called a Shibboleth, from the Bible book of Judges, chapter 12, verse 6.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    wild edges said:
    I hate it when news stories say things like archeologists are 'racing against the clock' to study a site threatened by coastal erosion. Maybe racing against a calendar but you've probably got a few decades of breathing space before it falls into the sea.
    Not always.  There was a major and previously unknown settlement somewhere in either the Orkneys or Shetland which was exposed by a storm.  The next storm could destroy it completely so there they are at least racing the weather.
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