Comments on: Silly Tube Names https://britlog.slaughter.com/2007/05/24/silly-tube-names/ work, life, and travel Fri, 25 May 2007 21:19:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 By: Dave https://britlog.slaughter.com/2007/05/24/silly-tube-names/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Fri, 25 May 2007 21:19:24 +0000 http://britlog.slaughter.com/2007/05/24/silly-tube-names/#comment-97 One of my historical linguistics classes was all about weird-ass British proper nouns and their equally weird -ass pronunciations.

Gloucester is a good one. Sos is Leicestershire (sp?) = Lester. But my all time favourite is Featherstonehaugh = Fan-shaw. Weird.

The other weird thing about British placenames in particular is how they can go on and on and on with prefixes…

“Oh, I live in Guildfordshirehamwicksteadheath.”

]]> By: JIMABRA https://britlog.slaughter.com/2007/05/24/silly-tube-names/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Fri, 25 May 2007 01:31:59 +0000 http://britlog.slaughter.com/2007/05/24/silly-tube-names/#comment-96 Come away from the light syl.

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