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Edward Lever Posts: 734 Joined: 22nd Dec 2005 Location: UK | quotePosted at 18:53 on 22nd June 2013 It is amusing how pronunciation has been used as a way of detecting a non-local or an interloper. Place names in England are only one example of such shibboleths. Many other pronunciations such as names of colleges e.g. Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; Magdalen College, Oxford; and even mundane locations such as Railway Stations e.g. Marylebone; are all there to trap the unwary, also the correct pronunciation of Cockburn's port. Edited by: Edward Lever at:23rd June 2013 00:53 |
Barbara Shoemaker Posts: 1764 Joined: 4th Jan 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 18:39 on 18th July 2013 On 20th June 2013 14:41, John Lawrence wrote:
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