[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: some brassband questions from BELGIUM!
>How do you pronounce 'Brighouse & Rastrick' : like 'Brickhouse' or
>more like 'Bright' and 'light' ? This is maybe a stupid question,
>but I just want this clear.
No, it's never stupid to check the pronunciation of British place
names. So many of them don't follow even the extremely relaxed
'rules' of normal English.
The 'i' is like the one in 'brickhouse', as you say. The accent is
on the first syllable, and the 'h' is hardly sounded, if at all.
Similarly, in 'Rastrick' the accent is on the first syllable.
Another example worth noting is Blackley (3rd Section Blackpool Results),
in which the 'a' is pronounced as in 'cake', not as in 'black'. Blackley
is an area of northern Manchester. Watch the election results and hear
even the BBC get it wrong :)
Tom Sheridan
Percussionist, Failsworth Band
Manchester, UK
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