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invisiblgirl
6 years agoNot applicable
"elanorbreton;c-17315926" wrote:"invisiblgirl;c-17315257" wrote:
Think of the poor tourists and students from Willow Creek and Oasis Springs, forever asking directions to 'Bright-chester'.
"Oh, you mean Britster?"
"No, it says 'Bright-chester'"
"Yes, that's Britster, love."
Willow Creek resident stares. "But where did all the consonants go?"
"Wales took them all. Sorry."
This had me in hysterics :D
When I first moved to the Worcestershire area, I remember my work colleagues having hysterics when I said Leominster as Leo-min-ster instead of Lemster rofl. I never did live that down.
I'm one of those people who tends to mispronounce words because I generally only read them - I don't see a lot of films and so forth. Place names are the worst - if I don't already know how a place in Britain is pronounced, I'll look it up if it looks fishy.