How do you pronounce "Leicester" as in Leicester Square, from the song "long way to Tipperary" ?????
#47
Not to beat this poor old horse, but . . .
"<i>Try doing the search.....just put in leicester</i>
If you had just put in 'leicester' at the time you topped this one, you would not have found this thread -- because it was well outside the 3 year default search range.
Now, of course, it will come up first because it has been topped.
So I guess we'll never find out how you dug up this old thing . . . .
On to pronunciations . . .
We've mostly mentioned the tricky one-- but LOTS of visitors even need help w/ easy ones like Edinburgh, Glasgow, Elgin, Bath, Bicester, Alnwick and the Thames
"<i>Try doing the search.....just put in leicester</i>
If you had just put in 'leicester' at the time you topped this one, you would not have found this thread -- because it was well outside the 3 year default search range.
Now, of course, it will come up first because it has been topped.
So I guess we'll never find out how you dug up this old thing . . . .
On to pronunciations . . .
We've mostly mentioned the tricky one-- but LOTS of visitors even need help w/ easy ones like Edinburgh, Glasgow, Elgin, Bath, Bicester, Alnwick and the Thames
#50
laverendrye: "<i> . . . so that a search between June 2004 and June 2007 would have found it.</i>"
Yep - that was my point. You HAVE to enter those dates - and khunwilko claims s/he only searched for 'leicester'.
So s/he must have been looking for REALLY old threads to top.
Yep - that was my point. You HAVE to enter those dates - and khunwilko claims s/he only searched for 'leicester'.
So s/he must have been looking for REALLY old threads to top.
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Another point that visitors to UK seem get wrong is "SHIRE" - on it's own it is "shy-er"
but at the end of a word - e.g. county name - it regains the schwa sound - "shugh" - "shə"
So Worcestershire is wuss-tə-shə
warwichshire - "worrickshə"
but at the end of a word - e.g. county name - it regains the schwa sound - "shugh" - "shə"
So Worcestershire is wuss-tə-shə
warwichshire - "worrickshə"
#57
michel - i think that "foreigners" can be forgiven the problems that they have with english pronunciation, as evidenced by this conversation with my DS, aged 19, today. [and I should explain that despite his A levels, due to a specific learning problem his spelling is at the level of your average chimpanzee]
me: "two jobs for you today, mowing the lawn and filling in your student loan form"
him: "well, at least they both begin with LO"
me "LO?"
him: "yes, LOan and LOrn"
me: "!*^&!!!"
me: "two jobs for you today, mowing the lawn and filling in your student loan form"
him: "well, at least they both begin with LO"
me "LO?"
him: "yes, LOan and LOrn"
me: "!*^&!!!"
#58
khunwilko: "<i>I insert no t year range - just do the search...i did it again to test and it came up the same.</i>"
Of course it works NOW. You topped the thing so now there is no need to plug in any dates. It has July 2010 activity. It <u>didn't</u> at the time you located and topped it. So you would not have found it unless you purposely searched for OLD threads. But enough of that -- I was just honestly curious and I guess we'll never know how.
Of course it works NOW. You topped the thing so now there is no need to plug in any dates. It has July 2010 activity. It <u>didn't</u> at the time you located and topped it. So you would not have found it unless you purposely searched for OLD threads. But enough of that -- I was just honestly curious and I guess we'll never know how.
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Ah worrshear or "shugh".....this is a bit like bath or "barth".
my Mum would have said "shear" - or at least told you so - but actually if the word comes up in normal conversation - try taping this; I have - you actually hear the "schwa" sound most of the time.
There is also a shift away from the shear pronunciation as it has "class" connotations that people try to avoid.
There are of course strong social and regional variations in UK and even "schwa" gets pronounced differently.
........both my parents and I lived there...and my Great Aunts.....they would deffo have said "Worrichseeear"
mind you they had a very strange greeting too
Air! Hair! Lair!"
BTW - Birmingham = "Brum" or earlier "Brummigen" which became a word meaning "cheap and tacky"
my Mum would have said "shear" - or at least told you so - but actually if the word comes up in normal conversation - try taping this; I have - you actually hear the "schwa" sound most of the time.
There is also a shift away from the shear pronunciation as it has "class" connotations that people try to avoid.
There are of course strong social and regional variations in UK and even "schwa" gets pronounced differently.
........both my parents and I lived there...and my Great Aunts.....they would deffo have said "Worrichseeear"
mind you they had a very strange greeting too
Air! Hair! Lair!"
BTW - Birmingham = "Brum" or earlier "Brummigen" which became a word meaning "cheap and tacky"