>>>>>Imho, the finest word in the english language is the word 'colonel'. Since when is 'olo' prounounced as 'er'? Is there another word that uses that concept? Should I be saying 'hergraph', or 'hertov cocktail'? How about pleading 'ner contendere', or getting on a horse to play 'per'? ;)
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>>>>Surely this is part of the British linguistic laziness that makes "Worcester" be "Wooster" and so forth.
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>>>Yes, pronouncing Cholmondeley as Chumly cracks me up.
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>>I've been told that (in the UK) "Featherstonehaugh" is pronounced "Fanshaw".
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>It would be just like them, and if true, then it's a beaut.
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>Hey, that's another one. Should be say 'b-oh-tiful' instead of 'b-yoo-tiful'? After all we pronounce 'beau' as 'b-oh', not as 'b-yoo'

In Norfolk, where I believe many of the Founding Fathers came from, they say "bootiful" (there's a famous Norfolk turkey farmer, Bernard Matthews, who's become nationally famous through using that word to describe his turkeys, on TV ads).

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>>Hopefully TerryM or some other Brit can pipe in on this.