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Colin Rosenstiel · August 27th 08, 12:57 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
lid (Arthur Figgis) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
lid (Arthur Figgis) wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:
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09:30:00 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Colin Rosenstiel
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.

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Colin Rosenstiel