Things that are pronounced differently to how they used to be

[pacharan]

Was up the Hungry Horse & the blokes at the bar were talking about words that are now pronounced differently to how they used to be years ago.

Though the conversation lasted the whole of my 2 pints of Triple Crown allocation, I can only remember 2 words.

They are (with old pronunciation followed by new in parentheses):

Nestles (nessulls/nestlays)
Lichen(lichinn/liken)

I'm sure there are loads more. Let's start a list.

[TimberWolf]

Just listen to copies of the World Service from 50 years ago. Sounds reet posh.

[shaunbhoy]

Was up the Hungry Horse & the blokes at the bar were talking about words that are now pronounced differently to how they used to be years ago.

Though the conversation lasted the whole of my 2 pints of Triple Crown allocation, I can only remember 2 words.

They are (with old pronunciation followed by new in parentheses):

Nestles (nessulls/nestlays)
Lichen(lichinn/liken)

I'm sure there are loads more. Let's start a list.

pacharan (twunt/knut)

[doodab]

Shouldn't it be "Things that people in my local have only recently learned to pronounce properly"

[OwlHoot]

Was up the Hungry Horse & the blokes at the bar were talking about words that are now pronounced differently to how they used to be years ago.

Though the conversation lasted the whole of my 2 pints of Triple Crown allocation, I can only remember 2 words.

They are (with old pronunciation followed by new in parentheses):

Nestles (nessulls/nestlays)
Lichen(lichinn/liken)

I'm sure there are loads more. Let's start a list.

"Yoagert" instead of "yoggut" for yoghurt

Even my granddad, born in the 1880s, used to pronounce some of his "a"s as "e"s, such as "Chairing Cross" instead of "Charrying Cross", and "Pell Mell" instead of "pal mal" (and if you asked him the time, he'd say "five and twenty past .." like the blackbirds in the pie )

"BalCONEY" instead of "BALcony"

Going back a couple of hundred years, the changes get even more bizarre, such as "obleege" instead of "oblige", "Rooom" for "Rome".

"forrid" instead of "fore head"

"vytamin" instead of "vittamin"

[russell]

Pacharan, you have done something I thought was not possible! You make gricerboy, d00hg and Wilmslow sound super interesting.

[NotAllThere]

Nestlé is a derived from a Schwäbisch word - it's not in fact French.

[MrMark]

Rhodesia

Ceylon

Deputy Prime Minister

[wobbegong]

"Gordon Brown"/"One eyed, slack jawed, incompetant, indiscrete, gold selling, economy mismanaging, c**t"

. . . at least that's how it's pronounced around here.

[Lockhouse]

I bought my house from someone with the middle name "St John" pronounced "sin gin".