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To a non-British ear, Shoeburyness is what sounds weird ;)
by dictum 9y ago
To a non-British ear, Shoeburyness is what sounds weird ;)
- Aloha 9y agoI don't even mentally error check placenames in the UK - someone could tell me Wibly-upon-Fluberstuck was a place and I'd probably believe it.
- oakesm9 9y agohttps://www.anglotopia.net/ultimate-list-of-funny-british-place-names/ https://www.anglotopia.net/ultimate-list-of-funny-british-pl...
- KJKingJ 9y agoLooking just on the London Tube and Rail map[0] alone, there's plenty of both odd and amusing station names (East India! Cockfosters! Cyprus! Barking! Elephant and Castle!), and many that are pronounced completely differently to how they appear (the number of visitors who I hear ask for directions to 'Lie-chester Square' for example!). [0]: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/london-rail-and-tube-services-map.pdf http://content.tfl.gov.uk/london-rail-and-tube-services-map....
- noja 9y agoVery funny. (My cousin was born in Wibly-upon-Fluberstuck)
- maxxxxx 9y agoIt sounds like it should mean something but it doesn't.
- userbinator 9y agoA measure of how soft the ground is, by observing how far one's shoes get buried in it.
- DonaldFisk 9y agohttps://tmoliff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/shoeburyness-absn.html https://tmoliff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/shoeburyness-absn.htm...
- pdpi 9y agoIt absolutely does mean something. Just probably not what you had in mind. :) In English toponymy "bury" refers to a fortified settlement, and "ness" is a promontory or headland. Sure enough, Shoeburyness is a town on raised ground by the mouth of the Thames estuary, and has had some sort of fortification or another on that site since Roman times.
- DanBC 9y agoHere's some pronunciations: https://forvo.com/word/shoeburyness/ https://forvo.com/word/shoeburyness/ (I think the harbour1971 is closer). My first search returned this other site, where all of the pronunciations of Shoeburyness are wrong. https://www.howtopronounce.com/shoeburyness/ https://www.howtopronounce.com/shoeburyness/