> Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
>>> Roland Perry wrote:
>>>> In message
>
cam002297.rosenstiel.co.uk>, >>> at
> 09:30:00 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Colin Rosenstiel >>>
> cix.co.uk> remarked:>>>>>> There's a Docwra's Close next to Shepreth Station. Pronounce
that!
>>>>> No harder than "Gwydir".
>>>> I can have a stab at "Gwydir" (perhaps to rhyme with "why-dear",
>>>> or is it "wider"),
>>> Assuming this is the one in Cambridge, something like "G'why-der"
>>> is about what I knew it as, rhyming with wider, but I didn't know
>>> many natives to know how they might say it - the chap I know who
>>> lives in said street is from Herefordshire. Whitefriargate in Hull
>>> is locally called Whitefrargate, with a missing middle "i", but
>>> there is no way of knowing that.
>>
>> Correct. But we have induction for outsiders round here. They have
>> to learn to pronounce Quy and Manea too.
>
> K-eye, like why? And like Brainy? Plus "keys" college, of course.
No. Like (the Bridge over the River) Kwai. Manea is the same ending as
Whittlesey, formerly Whittlesea, and still spelt thus in the station
name.
> I've heard claims that stiff-key is becoming accepted in Norfolk.
They'll be calling it Happisburgh next!
> Then there is Marylebone....
Seems straightforward to me.
--
Colin Rosenstiel
