Topic: FAO: Minibrits

Anonymous A started this discussion 6 months ago #127,767

When a town or place ends in -ham like, for example, Nottingham, how do you know when to pronounced it like ham, and when too pronounce it like -um? I hear both, but it's different for different places.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 months ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #1,379,045

Back when I lived in Layatteham-on-Vermilion I was informed by an old man, he must have been about fifty one years old or so, that the correct pronunciation is ham because it was originally from Norman French.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 months ago, 40 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,379,046

@previous (B)
say what?

Anonymous B replied with this 6 months ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,379,048

@previous (A)
That's what I said. He was a weird fucker, a known pedophile, and he reeked of booze and smelled like he bathed but once a week.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 months ago, 13 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,379,050

@previous (B)
ok? Any UK people here who can answer?

Anonymous B replied with this 6 months ago, 12 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,379,057

@previous (A)
I am a UK person.

Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU joined in and replied with this 6 months ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,379,097

Can you give some examples of place names that end in each?

Anonymous B replied with this 6 months ago, 13 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,379,256

@previous (Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU)
Lafayetteham-on-Vermilion, Cincinnatiham, and Kunmingham.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 months ago, 6 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,379,258

Does Hamsted count? Fordham. Grantham.

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