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Wednesday November 3, 2004

Permalink 11:43 pm, Categories: British vs. US, 71 words   English (US)

British Struggle with W

The British have a strange relationship with W's. Not far from our house is a street called Warwick Road. The British pronounce the first W but the second is ignored: it is pronounced 'War-ick.'

Similarly, there is an area of London just east of us called Chiswick, (pronounced Chizz-ick). Strangely, the W is not acknowledged.

I guess sometimes it is hard to know what to do with a W.

-HrH

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Comment from: Barbara Gottschalk [Visitor]
Many Americans can tell you!
Permalink Thursday November 4, 2004 @ 02:32
Comment from: Larry Gottschalk [Visitor]
Take it from an American: the British know nothing of tje struggle with W.
Permalink Thursday November 4, 2004 @ 07:20
Comment from: Tony [Visitor]
Try "Loughborough" as well. Pronouncing it "Loo - gi - buroo - gi", as Americans have done at railway stations, is wrong. It's "Luff - bur - ra".

Or "Worcestershire", as in sauce, is not "Wor - cest -er - shire". It's "Wuss - ter - sheer"
Permalink Saturday April 23, 2005 @ 13:40

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