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On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, wrote:

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"Graham Harrison" wrote
in message news The local council uses Haringey - http://www.haringey.gov.uk/ but
the railways use Harringay and I've just used (probably wrongly)
Haringay.

Railways are well known for having their own dictionary as shown
by the way they spell station names- e.g. Whittle sea for
whittlesey, Fulbourne for Fulbourn

Never rely on railway spelling

Dam spill chucker Whittlesea for Whittlesey

Whittlesea was how the place was spelt when the railway came.
Manea still uses the same ending.

Not to mention Judea.

I wouldn't mention it either. It's pronounced completely differently for a
start.

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Colin Rosenstiel

So is it Wittel - sea, or Wittel - say, or Wittel - see - uh
Man - ee - uh, Man - ay - ah or Man - ee
Jude - ay - ah and Jude - ee - ah seem to me equally common among those who
speak of the area, preachers being a large subgroup thereof.

So, what am I to make of all this ..... while the good folks in Whittlesea
near Melbourne, Victoria are a little more concerned about whether they will
have a town to give a name to after the severity of recent bushfires not
only through Victoria, but we've seen some serious wildfires occuring in
Western Australia now. Having put that in perspective, I've always known
Whittlesea to be Wittel - sea ... and the end of the line from Melbourne
through Epping.

DW downunder