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Puncknowle
By: Truman Overby Date: April 4, 2019, 9:14 am
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I ran across this word in one of those British vs. American word
pronunciation videos. Turns out this is the name of a village in
England. The correct pronunciation is ( /ˈpʌnəl/
PUN-əl), according to the Englishman who made the video.
Anyway, I found it interesting due to the extreme variance from
the spelling.
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Re: Puncknowle
By: SuKi Date: April 4, 2019, 12:37 pm
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Puncknowle? That's only the start of it, Mr Dini. How would
you pronounce Worcester, Leicester and Gloucester, for example?
Britain is stuffed full of places with idiosyncratic
pronunciations. Here are some more:
HTML https://metro.co.uk/2016/08/04/19-british-place-names-youve-been-mispronouncing-your-entire-life-6046790/
and here's a video:
HTML https://metro.co.uk/2015/01/23/this-is-what-happens-when-americans-try-to-pronounce-british-place-names-5033900/
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Re: Puncknowle
By: Nikola Date: April 4, 2019, 1:13 pm
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The first thing I thought of when I read it was Punxsutawney
from Groundhog Day but that one's quite predictable.
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Re: Puncknowle
By: SHL Date: April 4, 2019, 1:37 pm
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Or how about Harwich? That`s sure not pronounced like it is
spelled. When I took Laker to Gatwick back in 1980, (good old
Freddie Laker) I had to take the train up to Harwich for the
Harwich to Hoek van Holland ship (I think that ship journey took
all night) so I learned not to trust British spellings of place
names. I have ancestors I traced to Southwark, London (I also
wondered what was going on in Southwark area) and that place is
no pronounced like it`s spelled, and my DNA test came out in
right-on-the-money saying I had British ancestors from the
greater London area. That squared perfectly with own genealogy.
The even got it down to the cities: Glasgow City (also
confirmed by my own records from 20 years ago, greater
Manchester, Merseyside (no idea where that is), Edinburgh, Tyne
and Wear (again, no clue where that is) Belfast, Lancashire,
County Durham (no idea what that is) and West Midlands (another
unknown location in Britain).
But if you go south of London, like to Eastbourne or that area
the place names are easy to pronounce.
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Re: Puncknowle
By: Allie Date: April 5, 2019, 10:58 am
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Ireland has some interesting names too.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCb6BD3e5eo
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