@grayman @stueytheround @wolfwoman @Museek
Pee-ah-Buddy, easy

@grayman @stueytheround @Museek
There aren't so many in MD that I'm aware of. But I *do* know that most folx pronounce Norfolk wrong.
https://youtu.be/4uzcM8jrWQk

@wolfwoman @grayman @Museek
There are so many traps in the UK
For instance in Scotland there's a small fishing town
Kirkudbright
or on the border you can visit Hawick. You're already pronouncing them wrong 🤣🤣

@stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman @Museek Kirkbrt and Heyck?

@AskTheDevil A manful effort!

CurCudBree and Hoik

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@stueytheround @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
I was close on the 2nd... didn't get the "oy" sound.

@wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
The one which gets me every time is Beaulieu (famous for the motor museum) which is pronounced Byew Lee! 🤣🤣

@stueytheround @wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek Hey I've been there! It's cool!

@JolieSaboteuse Oh yeah! It's superb. Almost all the cars there are roadgoing too. Very few are "ornaments". btw did you make it to the Coventry one in the end?

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@stueytheround @JolieSaboteuse @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
Oh my.... I really want to go there! I love cars!

@stueytheround @wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek We were like "how do you say that? is it like billly oh?"

No it's BEW-LEE

"How the fuck does that work?"

Same way as Leicester is LESS-TAH

"ohhhhhh ok. New rules eh."

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@stueytheround @JolieSaboteuse @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
So Stuey, what about Welsh? Do you speak it? I actually want them to leave out almost all the consonants - it would work better!

@wolfwoman Oh gosh no! I can make a reasonable stab at place names but that's about it. @JolieSaboteuse @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek

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French but not, got it. LOL

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https://youtu.be/ySQzoEW5bWU

@stueytheround @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek
But, but ... it's French?
Oy! We had a lot of funny ones in CA because Spanish and also Indigenous ... WA has a couple of good ones, too.

@wolfwoman I know right! 🤣 @AskTheDevil @grayman @Museek

@stueytheround @wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman i would say beau lee ew

@stueytheround @wolfwoman @AskTheDevil @grayman i mean bow lee ew

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Talliaferro county: Pronounced "Tolliver County"

@stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman @Museek I think it's pronounced "stience". ; )

@stueytheround @grayman @Museek
I can make a guess at the second one because my husband (Yorkshireman, he proudly declared constantly) taught me how to say Smithwick.
:D

@stueytheround 😂 the Scots pronounce everything weird lol @wolfwoman @grayman

@Museek As you know all too well, given one of your best friends is Scottish 🤣 @wolfwoman @grayman

@stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman exactly!!

@Museek @stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman

Two different Glaswegians assaulted my ear one day and i still have absolutely no clue what they were saying. i felt more comfortable walking the streets of Yakutsk, language wise.

@northernbassist 😂 i had to look up Yakutsk 😂 i believe it... but there is something pretty magical about hearing it...

and Rhyming Cockney.. lol very entertaining..

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sorry..take a left at Albuquerque, straight on to Pyongyang, then go NNE a thousand klicks..😉

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@Museek @northernbassist @stueytheround @grayman
It is a lovely sounding language! I just watched a youtube video because I didn't know what it was, either. ;)

@Museek tread carefully now @stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman

@ecksmc I was hoping you'd jump in 🤣
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@stueytheround @Museek @wolfwoman @grayman just observing...... For now "gie it laldy" is on hold

@ecksmc 😂

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@ecksmc 😂 😂 i still love the Scots

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@Museek @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

https://youtu.be/uFubsxHTApw

@grayman @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman ol i remember the best "anti-terror" method at the airport.. listening..

@grayman Mag fuckin nificent 🤣 @Museek @ecksmc @wolfwoman

@grayman @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman hahaha Wha' feck YOU on aboot?

@grayman @Museek @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman

You have no idea how much I want to visit Scotland .. and stay, explore for a long period of time, see the sites.

@thereg001 Take a year or two. @grayman @Museek @ecksmc @wolfwoman

@stueytheround @thereg001 @grayman @Museek @ecksmc
So true. I only got to spend a couple of days in Scotland (also Ireland) and I would love to go back and spend much, much longer in both.

@Museek @ecksmc @stueytheround @wolfwoman @grayman

Everybody loves the Scots 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤣

@wolfwoman @grayman @stueytheround @Museek NOR'fk?

@wolfwoman Trap pronunciation is totally a thing.

I live near a trap pronunciation city.

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@EnochianEntropy @grayman @stueytheround @Museek
Please say more? I'm not familiar with that term.

@wolfwoman A city with a specific pronunciation designed to read a certain way, but is actually pronounced another way to show who is not from there.

"I love <WrongPronunciation>!
It's a lovely town!"

"You ain't from around here, boy."

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@EnochianEntropy @grayman @stueytheround @Museek
Thanks, I guessed what it meant but couldn't find it as a definition.

@wolfwoman I don't know if it's an actual thing, other than it being an actual thing I know of because of <Town>.

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@EnochianEntropy @wolfwoman @grayman @Museek
Trap pronunciations were common in the UK during WW2 as German spies with otherwise impeccable English often struggled with the names we've mentioned and quite a few others (Chulmondleigh = chumlee, Belvoir = beaver, Ralph = rafe)

@stueytheround @EnochianEntropy @grayman @Museek
Well then I went straight down a deep rabbit hole with "linguistic trap pronunciations"!! Still reading ...

@wolfwoman It's the verbal equivalent of ordering 3 drinks with Nazis.

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@stueytheround @EnochianEntropy @grayman @Museek

I wonder how folx around here would react if I called Fort Belvoir Fort Beaver! 😆

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