To help my American lemmings with pronunciation: Red-ing and Bark-shere.
It’s a very good university too.
Anglophones have no right to complain about French pronunciation. What the fuck is this shit?
Half the reason our pronunciation is so weird is that a bunch of French guys took over England
Tell me about it English is a bastardised language made up of so many different languages rules. Have you heard of Lee and Perrins Worcestershire sauce? It’s pronounced wuster-shere.
Great sauce btw, real umami flavour and great on cheese on toast.
My favourite is Wymondham. (Like the blowy kind,) Wind-um.
Also, fuck Worcester sauce.
I like Towcester.
Excellent for breakfast crumpets.
James Acaster’s classic Kettering Town FC bit starts with another example 😁
I’ve heard it as “English isn’t a language. It’s three languages under a trench coat, pretending to be a language.”
ever heard of ghoti?
Yes. I have also heard of “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”
Fun UK fact - we use a different ranking system for lecturers:
Lecturer Senior Lecturer Reader Professor
That means, at some point, someone has been a “Reader in X at Reading”.
There’s also the Reading festival. A common misconception is that it’s a music festival. It’s actually a festival of books.
Just rename the county to Bookshire ffs
