BBC Radio Newcastle

[Mr K]

Adorably parochial as it is, why can't the presenters pronounce local place names?

I've heard Pelaw referred to as Pillau, Houghton referred to as Howton ...and the murder of Alnwick, Rowlands Gill and "Stan Hope" has not gone unnoticed...

...but in the current weather, it is much more informative than the various incarnations of "Radio London".

 

[Beetle2112]

I love Radio Newcastle........... I started listening to it when the Ginger Cnut started ruining R2.

Oddly enough the web-fingered pikey in-breds in Bishop call it Stan Hope too.

 

[Mr K]

I love Radio Newcastle........... I started listening to it when the Ginger Cnut started ruining R2.

Oddly enough the locals in Bishop call it Stan Hope too.

It's your fault I started listening...

 

[Hairnet600]

peelaw

horton (although the houghton near preston is usually howton)

stanhope - stanup

not hard is it like

annick not too difficile either nest pas?

but then if yer snoopy youd say them all different again (or mort)

 

[wilbjr21]

And the most annoying thing of all where the feck is Northumbria. No such bloody County - just for the Northumberland and Tyne and Wear emergency services.

Most annoying !!!!!

 

[Don El Eee]

horton (although the houghton near preston is usually howton)

I thought it was hoe-tonne. But what do I know, I've lived here 13 years and still haven't got a clue how to say Ponteland.

 

[Mr K]

I thought it was hoe-tonne. But what do I know, I've lived here 13 years and still haven't got a clue how to say Ponteland.

Yep I'd say "hoe-tonne" ...and Pon-teeland....

 

[Buz]

We had a local radio station called Severnsound, its now Heart.
There is a Golf Tournament just outside Chepstow called San Pierre (thats how it is pronounced), they stated there was a golf tournament at Saint Pier....

Probably means nothing to you lot but was a big b@lls up if you were local

 

[Borderraider]

horton (although the houghton near preston is usually howton)

Hoe ton

not hard is it like

Nope

 

[Mr K]

Comedy pronounciation of "Spadeadam" this morning.

 

[PhilK]

The "Haughton-le-Skerne" where I live, 1 mile from Darlington, is pronounced Horton (Just to complicate matters.)

 

[original_concept]

Adorably parochial as it is, why can't the presenters pronounce local place names?

I've heard Pelaw referred to as Pillau, Houghton referred to as Howton ...and the murder of Alnwick, Rowlands Gill and "Stan Hope" has not gone unnoticed...

...but in the current weather, it is much more informative than the various incarnations of "Radio London".

bloomin' heck as pukka Southerner, even I can pronounce Stanhope, Alnwick, Ponteland (aka Dobbies) and Consett easily enough. I don't agree with the way they're said, so I tend to pronounce them way I reckon they should be said - FFS there is a place called Anick, which is spelt right!

Having said that the local pronunciation for place names with 'gham' makes me laugh, all I have to do is ask someone to say Ovingham then Gillingham (Kent)... heh sounds awful.

 

[(RIP) petcul]

Yep I'd say "hoe-tonne" ...and Pon-teeland....

Surely not. Isn't it Pontyland, a suburb of Wales

 

[Borderraider]

Weird..Posts 5 to 8 weren't visible to me until now

 

[Mr K]

Weird..Posts 5 to 8 weren't visible to me until now

There are forces at work that we may not comprehend....

 

[yalcrabm]

Its a good job nothing hapens in ULGHAM. Id hate to think how they would try to pronounce Ulgham

 

[Mr K]

Paddy McDee

He lives.....