Q- Stoke-on-Trent or Stockey on Trent?
 

Recently on a train from Manchester to London the train's purser or whatever they call the guy who makes announcements said repeatedly

"Stoke-y on Trent"

I had always thought it was Stoke on Trent

The train conductor was the worst PA guy i've ever heard on a British train - could incredibly hardly understand his garbled English so not sure he was right.

The four suits sitting opposite me laughed every time he made a barely intelligible announcement

purser: right or wrong?

Stockey in post title should have been Stoke-y like stoke - eeh

Stokie or Stokies in football jargon refer to the supporters of Stoke City Football Club, newly promited to the Premier League.

If you refer to "stokie" in London people will assume you mean Stoke Newington.

Stoke on Trent is also rhyming slang for unmarried.

well i'm confused as to how the city should be properly pronounced - like the soccer team? Or was the purser just having fun?

It's pronounced to rhyme with poke.

The conductor was probably pissed on paint - he's found your stash.

The 'purser' was probably Pakistani, Jamaican ... or Polish :)

He well could have been Jamaican by his look when he walked thru - every time he came on the PA the suits opposite me really did whince and laugh and laugh