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Graeme wrote:

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Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Alex Potter wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris Tolley wrote:

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"


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NB The "Key Apsiddy" mentioned above was uttered with what seemed at the
time a fairly reasonable Cockney accent, so it wasn't a case of him
being a stranger in Town.

Please put me out of my misery and remind me of the name of the chap who
invented Key Apsiddy, he was a radio practical joker pre-dating Jeremy
Beadle on TV [on Radio Luxembourg I think]

Keeping this on topic he once attempted to take a grand piano onto the
platform at Camden Town.

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Graeme wrote:

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Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Alex Potter wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris Tolley wrote:

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"


snip

NB The "Key Apsiddy" mentioned above was uttered with what seemed at the
time a fairly reasonable Cockney accent, so it wasn't a case of him
being a stranger in Town.

Please put me out of my misery and remind me of the name of the chap who
invented Key Apsiddy, he was a radio practical joker pre-dating Jeremy
Beadle on TV [on Radio Luxembourg I think]

Keeping this on topic he once attempted to take a grand piano onto the
platform at Camden Town.

Northern Line, that is

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:48:52 +0100, Guy Gorton
wrote:

Tourists and natives alike are asked in this country to pronounce the
new name for Abbey as San-tan-daire. I asked the staff whether they
would look at the cal-en-daire on the wall, and whether I could
ten-daire a 5 pound note. Sensible answers were prohibited by
management.

Presumably, though, pronouncing it as "Santanduh" would be as
incorrect as the other examples in this thread. It is after all a
Spanish company named after a Spanish place.

Neil
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:01:21 +0100, "tim...."
wrote:

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

Nothing. It's an easily understood mistake

In Milton Keynes, we have Loughton ("Loww-ton"), Woughton ("Wuffton")
and Broughton ("Brorrton"). So these things happen everywhere.

Neil
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:01:21 +0100, "tim...."
wrote:

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

Nothing. It's an easily understood mistake

In Milton Keynes, we have Loughton ("Loww-ton"), Woughton ("Wuffton")
and Broughton ("Brorrton"). So these things happen everywhere.

But if you're in Dorset and you ask for a ticket to "Jillingham" you'll get
one to the wrong place (assuming that you didn't want to go to Kent)

tim

Neil Williams wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:48:52 +0100, Guy Gorton
wrote:

Tourists and natives alike are asked in this country to pronounce the
new name for Abbey as San-tan-daire. I asked the staff whether they
would look at the cal-en-daire on the wall, and whether I could
ten-daire a 5 pound note. Sensible answers were prohibited by
management.

Presumably, though, pronouncing it as "Santanduh" would be as
incorrect as the other examples in this thread. It is after all a
Spanish company named after a Spanish place.

OTOH, in English we don't pronounce Paris as "Paree", many people
pronounce Bologne as "Bolloin", we've changed the name of München to
Munich, Köln to Cologne, Мо�ква�to Moscow, etc... so as far as I can see,
we can pronounce Santander any way we like in England.
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writes

But if you're in Dorset and you ask for a ticket to "Jillingham" you'll get
one to the wrong place (assuming that you didn't want to go to Kent)

And vice-versa. A few years ago I was working for a client in Canterbury
and received a note to pop over to Gillingham after lunch. Yep, it
turned out to be a six-hour round trip to the hard-G'd variety.
--
Paul Terry

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Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Ivor The Engine wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:24:46 +0100, Zhang Dawei
wrote:

You say Car-mee-na, I say Car-my-na ... mee-na, my-na ... Let's call
the whole thing Orff"

Zucchini/Courgette (haven't got the hang of this, have I!)

I have always wondered why I've never seen a courge.

Mind you, it's fair to acknowledge that Majors rarely look how one might
imagine fully-grown Majorettes to look.

Thank you, that's conjured up an image I could really do without.

--
Graeme Wall

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Sam Wilson wrote:

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Graham Murray wrote:

Josie writes:

On 27/06/2010 21:06, Ian Jelf wrote:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

If they were talking about the river that flows through Colorado or
Kansas, they'd be right, though the pronounciation changes when you get
downstream, apparently.


Not up in Leadville it doesn't (headwaters of the Arkansas river).

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Jim [wake wrote:

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Graeme wrote:

In message
Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Alex Potter wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris Tolley wrote:

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"


snip

NB The "Key Apsiddy" mentioned above was uttered with what seemed at the
time a fairly reasonable Cockney accent, so it wasn't a case of him
being a stranger in Town.

Please put me out of my misery and remind me of the name of the chap who
invented Key Apsiddy, he was a radio practical joker pre-dating Jeremy
Beadle on TV [on Radio Luxembourg I think]

Keeping this on topic he once attempted to take a grand piano onto the
platform at Camden Town.


Jonathon Routh perhaps?

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Graeme Wall

This address not read, substitute trains for rail
Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail
Photo galleries at http://graeme-wall.fotopic.net/