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Recycling pixels again - this is last month's P.O.M.

The caption was something about "Them old Morrises cornering like they was on rails". (They look like Bullnose Morrises to me but I might be wrong.)

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I took this - I think - at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.

(Note to non-Brits: This is pronounced "Bew-lee", contrary to any knowledge you have about foreign pronunciations. A veddy proper English lady explained to me that it pronounced like this because "It's a ~French~ word, you know." I'm still trying to figure that one out.)
 
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If you think Beaulieu is bad try Bicester, or any number of other traps....

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That's a new one on me - how do you pronounce it? Is it "By-ster" (accent on the first syllable)?

The worst I know of is Featherstonehaughs which I think is some close to "Fanshaw".
 
Chimquistebendecook! Mattawamkeag! Cobbosseecontee! Mooselookmeguntic!

...nevermind them silly English place names. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
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Chimquistebendecook! Mattawamkeag! Cobbosseecontee! Mooselookmeguntic!

...nevermind them silly English place names. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif

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Touché, monsewer! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif
 
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Chimquistebendecook! Mattawamkeag! Cobbosseecontee! Mooselookmeguntic!

...nevermind them silly English place names. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif

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I'll see your Indian names (that might reasonably be expected to be odd), and raise you a few Scottish ones: Auchtermuchty, Balluchillish, Kilconquhar, etc.

Just be glad I didn't want to make you really suffer by bringing out the Welsh names....
 
mehheh.

John scores this round.
 
Actually if it were pronounced in the French way it would be prounounced

BOW LEE ER

Say all three syllables together and DO NOT pronounce the trailing R in the way most Amercians do.

There is a town of that name close to between Monaco and Nice on the South coast of France.

The pronunciation of Beau as Bew has slipped acros the pond, too. There are two towns called Beaufort, one in North Carolina, usually pronounced Bow-fort, and one in South Carolina, usually pronounced Bew-fort.

Go figure.
 
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mehheh.

John scores this round.

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Oh, he rightfully earned the point, Doc! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Jeff
 
Just to change up this stuff a bit... after driving through most of England and Ireland a couple of years ago my wife and I decided that our favorite town name was.... are you ready???

Wetwang

This one is not hard to pronounce properly though, on second thought maybe its Wee-tang or something like that.

Al
 
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