pronuciation

[**towery**]

having a discussion here about how to say a few words and why an 'r' seems to have snuck into

the way  castle and glasgow are pronounced by tv people

the CWG had me annoyed by all the bbc people

so  how do YOU  say castle?

[ed_blackadder_1]

I say castle the way it is supposed to be said, no r in castle.

I have noticed lately with the sports people they start a sentance with I mean, whenever they are asked a question they say I mean before every answer, where did that come from.

[**towery**]

ive only just seen i have spelt it wrong  lol

i asked 'where's the R?'

[aernethril]

http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/castle

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=castle

or with a soft Irish accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3J9LvCnu3k

[**towery**]

My OH got a bit annoyed watching the athletics this week  as  'disappointing'  seemed to be the word of the day

and i got  royally peeeeeeeeeeeeeeed off by a question someone asked, i can't remember what it was but i said ' you cant ask a question like that!!!!!'

they seem to cater for the younger  brainless viewers sometimes

and dont get us started on  hazel irvine and her ability to make men cry

[chickengrandma-2008]

I'm really getting to be a grumpy old woman, so many things seem wrong to me!!.

I hate the weather forecasters saying  'wall to wall sunshine'  Yes it was a very clever phrase the first 100 or so times it was used, now it just shows a lack of imagination!  Clouds that 'bubble up' annoys me too!!  And when they say it's 20 degrees Celsius, that's 68 IN Fahrenheit, shouldn't it just be .....that's 68 Fahrenheit??

When I lived in Yorkshire castle was castle but in Suffolk it's carstle  the same with bath and barth.  inserts smilie that's not working just now!  

[dairyview123]

We both say Carstle and I say barth but he says bath.

Both born and bred in SE England

If there is one person (along with hundreds of others) who get on my pip but Hazel Irvine HAS to be turned off

We have one local newsreader lady! who all of sudden has aquired a 'posh' thick thoated voice! dont know where that come from cept elloqusion lessons!

Youngster gabble too quick nowadays and ive resorted to watching TV with sub titles so I can make out what they are saying 😞

have you noticed how many weather girls are pregnant!

[chickengrandma-2008]

Must be something in the wind dairy!!  

[ilove2patch]

I hate the letter H being pronounced Haich! Drives me mad!

[bitsnknots]

I don't know how much truth there is in it but apparently, the correct pronunciation of Bath is Bath.  We normally say castle instead of carstle.  That's how we speak in the north west of England.

[captainbovine]

me too Maggie!

puzzles me though the way Geordies say bath etc but then say plarster!!

I love a Geordie accent though.

then there is the argument is it scone or scoane?

It's scone

[bitsnknots]

We say scone but in Cornwall apparently, it's scoane.  I love the Geordie accent as well CB. 

[ilove2patch]

I pronounce Bath as if it has two a's....Baath. Not Bath sounds like hath.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I'm with you on the 'aitch' Maggie.  That is just plain wrong and yet you get apparently educated people still say haitch!!  

[aernethril]

Thing is tho, when you say the "correct" pronunciation of Bath is Bath - well what does that mean because it doesn't give any indication of how you think it is pronounced.

So what is this "correct" pronunciation?

And who's to say it there is even a "correct" way to pronounce it.

Regional accents are just that and whilst some ways of pronouncing words may seem a bit strange at times, mostly there is no right or wrong and I enjoy the differences like listening to different tunes.

I don't think anyone is introducing an R into castle - or else it would sound like "carrrsell" - you have to actually pronounce the R - and using the long a (as in those clips above) has been a fairly bog standard way of pronouncing it in many regions that I know of. So, I can't see that it's something that has been 'snuck in' recently.

Annoying 'fashionable' terms of phrases, yes - politicians have taken up this really pee me off 'tic' of starting everything they say with 'Look' - when what they really mean is "shut up, whilst I think of some way to go entirely off track because I'm not answering that question".

And wall to wall sunshine?!?!??!  What the heck is that supposed to mean anyway - it's utter nonsense.

I think if anything annoys me it is getting het up about "correct" ways of pronouncing things when it doesn't really matter as long as we all understand what we're saying - although I do expect MPs to be able to pronounce a geographical town in the UK.

So - what about "Shrewsbury" or "Leominster" or "Cirencester / Gloucester / Towcester?

Dalziel

Menzies

Cholmondeley

Woolfhardisworthy

Belvoir

Marjoribanks

Featherstonehaugh

[**towery**]

thats a whole   new bag of  fish  lol

here in  norfolk the  name of Potter Heigham has been discussed on the local radio a lot

i think the concensus was that the way that most people say it is wrong and you are supposed to say it as if  a long hot poker in inserted somewhere painful the minute you start to say the H

[stan3502]

"Shrewsbury" well I'm quite local and we all say shrew as in the tiny little animal, only outsiders or posh peeps use shrough as in sounds like throw which is what you put over an old sofa

[chickengrandma-2008]

We must learn to accept what other people see as ok.  For instance there was just a story on the local news about the 93 years between the oldest and youngest members of a family, ie. a new baby and his great great grandmother.  Not only was the new baby called Carter, he had a flat cap on!  I'm saying nothing!!!

Also, I was just looking on a well known auction site at the dog beds.  I don't know if this one will be suitable though as my dog's a bit scatty and doesn't listen at the best of times.

'Air holes for evaporation to avoid concentration'  I'm still saying nothing!  

[wskneil]

In answer to original question....... carsel ( Essex boy!)

Now living ooop north a local village is called Slaithwaite

On the TV they say slay thwaite

A couple of miles away they call it Slath wait

And if you are born and bred there it is Slawit

[stroppy*cow]

Well, how would you pronounce Ilkeston? The local pronunciation is Ilson.

Once had a yank ask me where to catch the bus for loo-berr-ooo, took me a few minutes to realise the he meant Loughborough (pronounced Luff-burro)