Paul Bennett wrote:
>On 6 Oct 2003 at 0:32, michael poxon wrote:
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>>Leominster (Britain) is in Herefordshire and pronounced /lemst@/. We
>>have some strange place-names around this neck of the woods too, with
>>such gems as Happisburgh /hejzbr@/ and Stiffkey /stu:ki/ though Norfolk
>>voiceless stops are actually more voiced than voiceless. Mike > > and a
>>Leominster (/lEmInst@r/ or /lEmInst@/ with the accent on
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>Don't forget the wonderful personal and family name
>"Chalmondley" /tSVmli/, from which we deduce that in British
>English, the word "almond" is pronounced /Vm/
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That's Cholmondley
There was a young woman named Cholmondley
Who mused to herself rather glolmondley:
"Were it not my squint And my rubicund tint
I might be considered quite colmondley."
from:
http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~ad/LimericksDir/C.html
and it doesn't beat Featherstonehaugh /f&nSO:/
David Barrow