Tim

"Thomas Peel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > bobo schrieb:
    > >
    > > Gloster...
    > > Does that sound "Glowster" "Glosster" or "Glauster"?
    > There's an old nursery rhyme..
    > Dr Foster went to Gloucester...
    > Can't remember the rest.

http://www.mamalisa.com/house/drfoster.html

tim

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"bobo" wrote

    >Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    >Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    >Never understood how to pronounce it.

Be careful! You could have finished up in Gloucester - about
a hundred miles from your tube stop.

I have seen a bus ticket to Gloucester bought by an American
who wanted to go to Gloucester Road.

There are tales of taxi drivers taking people to Liverpool
from Heathrow when they only wanted to get to Liverpool Street.

For London and the rest of the UK it is essential to give the
name or address in full.

barney

In article <[email protected]>, (Poss) wrote:


    > Or Glstr if you're a Kiwi.

Or txting.

barney

In article <[email protected]> ,
[email protected] (bobo) wrote:

    > Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    > Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    > Never understood how to pronounce it.

'Gloss' as in 'gloss', 'ter' as in 'terminal'.

Incidentally, if you are speaking of the county Gloucestershire, the last
syllable is pronounced as "sheer" *not* "shyer".

A.Spencer3

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > In article <[email protected]> ,
    > [email protected] (bobo) wrote:
    > > Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    > > Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    > > Never understood how to pronounce it.
    > 'Gloss' as in 'gloss', 'ter' as in 'terminal'.
    > Incidentally, if you are speaking of the county Gloucestershire, the last
    > syllable is pronounced as "sheer" *not* "shyer".

Regional differences? We'd say sher as in 'her'.

Surreyman

Ken Blake

In news:[email protected],
[email protected] <[email protected]> typed:

    > In article <[email protected]> ,
    > [email protected] (bobo) wrote:
    >> Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    >> Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    >> Never understood how to pronounce it.
    > 'Gloss' as in 'gloss'


The problem with that statement is that not everyone pronounces
the vowel in "gloss" the same way. Some use the vowel in "paw,"
others the vowel in "pot."


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Alan Harrison

"Owain" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Had an Antipodean ask me directions for the train to Lugga-burra once.
    > Pointed him in the direction of Loughborough.

Years ago, I was changing money in the Banca Nazionale di Lavoro in Perugia,
where the clerk was horrified to see that my passport was issued in
Peterborough. After telling him how to pronounce it, I explained that it was
just "Borgo San Pietro".

Alan Harrison

R J Carpenter

    > >Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    > >Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    > >Never understood how to pronounce it.

Now that's settled, how would one pronounce "celtic"? Soft or hard 'c'?

Ken Blake

In news:[email protected],
R J Carpenter <[email protected]> typed:

    >> >Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    >> >Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    >> >Never understood how to pronounce it.
    > Now that's settled, how would one pronounce "celtic"? Soft or
hard
    > 'c'?


My dictionaries accept both.

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Alec

"R J Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > > >Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    > > >Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    > > >Never understood how to pronounce it.
    > Now that's settled, how would one pronounce "celtic"? Soft or hard 'c'?
Soft c when referring to the football club, k-sound for anything else
(language, culture, tribe etc).

Alec

Alan Harrison

"R J Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Now that's settled, how would one pronounce "celtic"? Soft or hard 'c'?
I wouldn't risk a hard C at Parkhead, unless I really wanted my head kicked
in.

Alan Harrison

Charles Hawtrey

"Runge" <[email protected]> wandered out of a yurt and mumbled:

    >Gloster

I've also heard it closer to "glouster" (like the "ou" in "ouch")


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James Silverton

"R J Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > > >Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    > > >Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    > > >Never understood how to pronounce it.
    > Now that's settled, how would one pronounce "celtic"? Soft or hard
'c'?

In the 50s and 60s, I remember its being pronounced with a soft "s"
sound. Nowadays, it seems invariably to be hard as in "k"; except of
course the Glasgow soccer football team Celtic.


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Runge

soft

"R J Carpenter" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
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    > > >Could someone type how to pronounce Gloucester?
    > > >Recently spent a week in London and that was my tube stop.
    > > >Never understood how to pronounce it.
    > Now that's settled, how would one pronounce "celtic"? Soft or hard 'c'?

A.Spencer3

"James Silverton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    >> In the 50s and 60s, I remember its being pronounced with a soft "s"
    > sound. Nowadays, it seems invariably to be hard as in "k"; except of
    > course the Glasgow soccer football team Celtic.
'Selts' has never been used, in my experience, and 'seltic' hardly at all,
apart from the soccer team.
It was the name of my school house in the 1950s, and that was definitely
'Kelt'.
And, incidentally, I am one!

Surreyman