My (hopefully less contentious) random thoughts for today!!

Typed say not play!
And what about Bicester pronounced Bister?
Goes off singing
Oh why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

St. John as a surname is sin jun, as for Cholmondley....chumly?

And what about Featherstonehaugh, pronounced 'Fanshaw'...

I never knew that Ana!
There was a teacher I knew who pronounced Diggins as De Guyan.....

And the name Beauchamps pronounced Beeching!!

Is Menzies as in Menzies Campbell pronounced Ming? Or is that just a nick name?

Not far from us are Weobly - Webley, Leominster, Lemster and Baggleidiart!

Think it's pronounced 'Mingis', KatyK.

The clan name Menzies is pronounced Mingies. This stems from an old alphabet in which, I believe, a Z type of letter stood for NG. Well, something like that anyway. No doubt someone will be able to put me right on that.

Round here Beauchamp is pronounced Beecham!

Also round here, if you go up Groby (Groobey) Road you eventually come to Coalville (Coville). And, we also have the Carillon or is that the Carilleyon?

And of course we are only 12 miles away from Leicester!

Oh is it pronounced Mingis or Mingies? I just Googled him and it says Menzies 'Ming' Campbell.

We have a Great Wyrley which is pronounced Great Whirrley.

I think anno's right and it's 'Mingies' to rhyme with 'thingies'.
'Ming' is just his nickname.

There's a village in Devon spelt Woolfardisworthy and even on some road signs it's Woolsery.

Oh I see Ana.

Over the years I have learned to cope with Alnwick and Norwich, Leicester and Kircudbright but now I am facing a whole new ball game – Tahunanui, Wakapuaka, Ngarua, Pikikirunga and Whakamarama, for example.

rosequartz here in the potteries Beswick has always been pronounced Beswick only on TV is it Bes-ick

Oops Juliette and I was born in Staffordshire

ps in fact I think I called it Bes-wick until I moved away and thought I must have been pronouncing it wrong got posher

Nowt wrong with that rose

Katek have you escaped yet? I have had visitors this afternoon, but just wondered if you are still in there.

I will start to pronounce it Bes-wick from now on

Not that I have any.
(apart from MIL's flying ducks which reside in a box in the attic.)

And Cholmondeley is Chumley, and someone called Featherstonehaugh is really called Fanshaw!

We've done those two somewhere above ^^, number!

Managed to extricate myself from the fluffy corners Roseq-emerged red faced and sweating!