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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

That reading is pronounced reading and reading is said like reading?

Maybe the people of reading always pronounced it like reading but changed it to sound like reading

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It’s people of ‘Reading’.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Am I reading this right?

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

I say "scone"

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.


"I say "scone" "

FFS, KC! You know it's "SCONE".

Unless you're talking about Scone Palace. Then it's "Scone"

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By *elaninMaverickWoman
over a year ago

near Putney Heath


"That reading is pronounced reading and reading is said like reading?

Maybe the people of reading always pronounced it like reading but changed it to sound like reading"

No comment. I just go with whatever the locals say.

I already ran foul of Leicester when I first moved to the UK in 2000 as a skinny 18-year-old island girl. Called is Leychester...instead of the local LESS-TER.

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By *elaninMaverickWoman
over a year ago

near Putney Heath


"That reading is pronounced reading and reading is said like reading?

Maybe the people of reading always pronounced it like reading but changed it to sound like reading"

Nottingham is the same. Other people: Not-ing-ham. Local people: Not-N-UM!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I say "scone"

FFS, KC! You know it's "SCONE".

Unless you're talking about Scone Palace. Then it's "Scone" "

S'gone....

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"I say "scone"

FFS, KC! You know it's "SCONE".

Unless you're talking about Scone Palace. Then it's "Scone" "

And while we're at it, would you please check my wound? I wound a bandage around it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Towcester...toaster?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Reading of course is in Berkshire which is pronounced quite differently from 'berk'.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"Towcester...toaster?"

Bicester. Bloody Bicester. What did the Romans do for us?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'. "

Ummmmm, short vowels and "the south"? Does. Not. Compute! I take a bath. I sit on the grass. Short vowels

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'. "

This is distinguishable from the Great Bowel Shift which occcured during the Plague.

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.


"I say "scone"

FFS, KC! You know it's "SCONE".

Unless you're talking about Scone Palace. Then it's "Scone"

S'gone...."

I say that EVERY time I eat one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'.

Ummmmm, short vowels and "the south"? Does. Not. Compute! I take a bath. I sit on the grass. Short vowels "

Southern - a good example of long vowel being shortened. Any complaints to be taken up with the Middle English Dept, please.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden


"The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'.

Ummmmm, short vowels and "the south"? Does. Not. Compute! I take a bath. I sit on the grass. Short vowels

Southern - a good example of long vowel being shortened. Any complaints to be taken up with the Middle English Dept, please. "

But do not take it up with the left or right English departments.

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire


"I say "scone"

FFS, KC! You know it's "SCONE".

Unless you're talking about Scone Palace. Then it's "Scone"

S'gone...."

Sc’own

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By *an4funMan
over a year ago

london

Dave, Kevin's mate from pub

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I say "scone"

FFS, KC! You know it's "SCONE".

Unless you're talking about Scone Palace. Then it's "Scone"

S'gone....

I say that EVERY time I eat one "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I say "scone"

FFS, KC! You know it's "SCONE".

Unless you're talking about Scone Palace. Then it's "Scone"

S'gone....

Sc’own "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does anyone do the 'full moon, half moon, total eclipse' joke when eating jaffa cakes?

I don't eat them but still totally would

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

But did you read the book or have you read the book?

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire


"Does anyone do the 'full moon, half moon, total eclipse' joke when eating jaffa cakes?

I don't eat them but still totally would "

The only thing people should do with Jaffa cakes is…

Put them straight in the bin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How do you pronounce Bury?

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

Bath Barth

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By *inda May SimmonsTV/TS
over a year ago

hexham

Newcastle !…..The Toon!

Need I say any more?

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT


"Bath Barth"

I think you’ll find it’s Baaff

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

The UK has always had many dialects and local pronunciations. Use by thousands of people, over generations and especially when most couldn't read or write, meant that pronunciations were king.

The first dictionary - Johnson - was fairly recent. Again from a time when it would have been lost on the masses, who couldn't read it. Spellings have changed and continue to evolve. The same with pronunciations. The power of the people

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I say "scone" "
its sgone

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"How do you pronounce Bury? "

Berry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"How do you pronounce Bury?

Berry "

Same. not Buh’ry

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"How do you pronounce Bury?

Berry

Same. not Buh’ry "

Thats how it's said up north

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"How do you pronounce Bury?

Berry

Same. not Buh’ry

Thats how it's said up north "

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

When they make us a fucking city we will spell it Redding but not a moment before.

Alright?

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"Am I reading this right?"

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"How do you pronounce Bury?

Berry

Same. not Buh’ry

Thats how it's said up north "

I've been from up north since I was 5. Granted, I'm originally from Welsh Wales, but still......

Berry, Lancs

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By *ndyn50000Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

As for Shrewsbury.....

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"As for Shrewsbury....."

It's in Shropshire

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

Innit.

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