Before I heard it being said I kept pronouncing the surname “Mangione” as “Man-jee-own” rather than “man-jo-nee” and I’m still ashamed about it lol I’m sorry
Before I heard it being said I kept pronouncing the surname “Mangione” as “Man-jee-own” rather than “man-jo-nee” and I’m still ashamed about it lol I’m sorry
All English town names, by spite and ignorance but mostly spite.
Oh, I am not pronounching “Glouchestershire” correctly? SPELL it correctly then!
Is that the one pronounced “Wooster”?
No, Worcestershire is pronounced woostershire
And Gloucestershire sounds like Glousteshire.
There was a YouTube video I watch ages ago and it explained it pretty well.
The differences depends on who settled the town. Roman, Saxon, or Viking
I have American friends who couldn’t pronounce it. it was always some variant of “Glow-kester-sheer” but tbh I can’t blame them, the spelling doesn’t do the pronunciation justice 😂
I think I’m supposed to say “gl” and then the vocal equivalent of “asdfasdfasdf”
In his comments on the Jeeves & Wooster series Stephen Fry talked a bit about English family names. Among others, he said Mainwaring is pronounced “Mannering”, and Cholmondeley is “Chumley”.
Glaw-stuh-shur, correct?
It sounds plausible!