ENGLISH PLACE NAMES
Sir-Your correspondent "Homey" opens up a vexed question when he says Yarmouth should be pronounced Yarmuth. To call the place Yarmuth is to use a dialectical pronunciation. The fact that locals call Birmingham "Brummagem" does not make it right for all Eng-lish-speaking people to call it so. One ‘English dialect makes London "Lunnan"; another calls Marlbotfough "Maw/lborough"; but no person with a good grounding in English language would, in ordinary conversation, descend to these pronunciations. What is more, very ‘few would know them. As a New Zealander I found Wiltshire people pronouncing our English words in such a strange way that I had some difficulty in understanding them.
JOHN W.
PRICE
(Havelock).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 24
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115ENGLISH PLACE NAMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 24
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