For the international folk who might not know, “Cholmondeley” is pronounced “Chumly”
I honestly can’t tell if this is true or some British chaps having fun at our expense.
I’m leaning towards it being true solely because I know how Worcester is pronounced.
Ha, honest truth!
About 30 minutes away is the similarly-named Cholmondeston (Chum-stn).
These two places are in Cheshire. There’s also the always confusing Wynbunbury (Winbry), and the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, Daresbury (Darsbry).
You have a city named after a venereal disease and it’s pronounced Cum Stain? Get the fuck outta here!
It just pisses me off that people forced me to learn english grammar in school like it was a set of rules laid out to logically structure language when grammar classes should just have involved taking the class on a group crime trip through language city roughing up words and sticking em good with silent useless letters, switching out the endings of words with ones that clearly don’t fit, climbing up onto road signs over highways and causing chaos by painting over the old sign directions with new ones written in riddles and installing street parking signs everywhere that all contradict each other like the rules of grammar do.
The only way for citizens to live a relatively normal life in this city is to frantically try to keep up with memorizing the arbitrarily changing rules of their universe and just give up all hope in unifying things under a rational even vaguely consistent system.
It’s the feminine version of “marquis” apparently. If anyone else was wondering what the fuck a marchioness was
You say that as if any of us know what a marquis is.
It’s a member of the 24th-century paramilitary organization-terrorist group of the same name of course! Notable members will include Laren, Torres, Chakotay, and even one of the Riker twins.
I stopped actually reading your post when I realized I just wanted to make the Star Trek joke but then I realized I was actually in fact reading the Star Trek joke.
Excuse me, Benedict Cumberbatch, will you pass the worcheshire sauce?
The talk show host pointed out that Cholmondeley is actually pronounced “Chumley” and made the bizarre pronunciation a running joke. “Now there have been rumors an affair between William and the Marching Band of Chicanery since 2019,” he said, mocking her title.
-Stephen Colbert trolls Prince William’s alleged affair with Rose Hanbury
There’s no Fookin’ way in the King’s English this is the real way to pronounce this!?!
There’s no Fookin’ way in the King’s English this is the real way to pronounce this!?!
Worcestershire. Pronounced wooster-sure. I do believe The King’s English takes the piss whenever possible.
See also: Through…
Oooh! And Norfolk. That one is pronounced Nah-fuck, at least in Virginia, US. Not certain how the original town is said, I assume it’s similar, but the accent may have drifted in the last 400 years or so since the new one was founded.
Nor-fuck in the UK, so sort of close I guess.
