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Going by historical spelling, yeah!
Interestingly, "Brixton" is derived from "Brixistan", although you'd probably be locked up if you tried to call it that today!
Interestingly, "Brixton" is derived from "Brixistan", although you'd probably be locked up if you tried to call it that today!
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One of the scummy areas of Dunstable (next to Luton) is called "Downside"! Classic!
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there's also a road in the city of london called cheapside though, which was the "high street" back in the day.
i always wondered about north south east or west as suffixes/prefixes aswell. my theory is that if there's a district of the town called east ___ or west ___ etc. (such as east finchley, east croydon, south norwood), the other end will have the word as a prefix (e.g. west croydon, west norwood). otherwise it's a suffix. but there are probably about a million exceptions to that.
i always wondered about north south east or west as suffixes/prefixes aswell. my theory is that if there's a district of the town called east ___ or west ___ etc. (such as east finchley, east croydon, south norwood), the other end will have the word as a prefix (e.g. west croydon, west norwood). otherwise it's a suffix. but there are probably about a million exceptions to that.
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Sorry to bring up an old thread.
I was wondering about the Chesham/Amersham pronunciation. When I went up there and asked someone if he knew where the bus for Amer-sham leaves he just looked at me and said: Oh, you mean Amers-ham. This was an older male, so could it be that Amers-ham is an old pronunciation?
And what about Loughton? Is it pronounced as the Scottish loch or Lafton or Laten.
I was wondering about the Chesham/Amersham pronunciation. When I went up there and asked someone if he knew where the bus for Amer-sham leaves he just looked at me and said: Oh, you mean Amers-ham. This was an older male, so could it be that Amers-ham is an old pronunciation?
And what about Loughton? Is it pronounced as the Scottish loch or Lafton or Laten.
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Loughton is pronounced like "plough-tn" (plow-tn if you're American).
CHESH-m.
AMer-shm.
That's how I pronounce them. I don't know about archaic pronunciations...
CHESH-m.
AMer-shm.
That's how I pronounce them. I don't know about archaic pronunciations...
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