Finally my blogger postcard arrives from Shammi in Shrewsbury. Funnily enough I know the biscuit – which I love – and the town very well from trips from home to Borth in Wales.
Can anybody answer me this though, is it pronounced Shrewsbury or Shrowsbury?
Receiving a nice solid proper shop-bought postcard makes me feel shabby for sending a home made one printed on a crappy bit of postcard-sized photographic paper. What a shame these home printers can take more solid stock – and add a varnish for good measure.
The idea of this event, devised by Meeta, is to register for the event before being allocated a complete stranger to send a card to.
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How exciting to see my postcard has reached you! Just HAD to check out your blog to see it, of course.
I dont know who’s getting your “home made one printed on a crappy bit of postcard-sized photographic paper”, but I think it’s very nice that you took the trouble to MAKE one, rather than just buy it from a shop!
And to answer your question… posh people call it “Shrowsbury” but to us plebians, it’s simply Shrewsbury!
I swear that there are some strange pronouciations of towns there. I was trying to get to Esher by train once and was saying ‘ESH-ER’ but the ticket guy refused to understand me for many long minutes before saying ‘Oh, you mean ‘EE-SHER’. What the???
Cin, pronounciation is strange in England mainly because immigrants wanted to seem English so pronounced foreign surnames in an English way. EG Beauchamp pronounced Beecham or Berkerly is pronounced Barclay. EE-Sher is correct but I have no idea why. According to my mum Shrewsbury is pronounced Shro if you are from Wales or the obvious way if you are English.
yes my favourite is hertfordshire pronounced hartfordshire!
great! your card arrived. enjoy!
And Southwark is ‘SUTTHICK’?
What about a few Ausie names. It’s not Bondi but Bondy…