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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Are you a Farquharson perchance? @ Uff
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Then there's Ng @KT53
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Mine's easy enough to spell but I always have to explain that it's my surname
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    My father used to tell of being caught out by Milguy ( Mil gai  if you prefer) in Scotland,  it's written Milngavie. He told us when posted up to the area in the war, he waited ages for a bus before a kindly local explained he had let several go past, and he realised his error. 
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Maybe it would be a good idea if signs had a phonetic spelling in  brackets or whatever underneath. Useful for visitors but it would certainly soil the locals' fun 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    B3 said:
    Are you a Farquharson perchance? @ Uff
    No much worse than that one and it's a Yorkshire name so should be easy. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited November 2022
    Featherstonehaugh? Apparently pronounced as it is written and not Fanshaw as many think. By contrast, Sir George Everest, the surveyor general of India who have his name to the mountain, used the pronunciation Eve-rest not Ever-est.
    Rutland, England
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It's international mens' day today. So happy that I guess :|  I expect my parade will be along any second.
    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
    edited November 2022
    What’s the difference between an International Man and the more ordinary ones?  How can I tell which sort mine is?  

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





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I think I would like to be, an intergalactic man.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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