It's the one with a roundabout every 50 metres along every road in every part of this artificially made to order city...it's the one with concrete cows and the one with the largest number of industrial estates per square kilometre and the one where it it possible to buy just about everything it's possible to buy under God's sun and all under one single roof...the one commonly called the "Ci(h)ee Ceh'nah" - Estuary style MK speak.

Erm....coming from Edinburgh and now working (temporarily) on the edge of the Cotswolds area - in Cheltenham in fact.....I have come across very many American tourists, and on more than one occasion I have heard them refer to "War-sesturr-shyurr" sauce to go with their steaks. And most of them seem to place a very strong emphasis on the very last syllable of all place names in England ending with "-ham", including "Burrming-HAM".

I wonder what they would make of a place name not far from where my grandparents live in Herefordshire......Leominster. They could be forgiven for getting that totally wrong, as many people not local to the area get it wrong as well, and even some dimwit in the BBC not in communication with their own official Pronunciation Department gets it wrong sometimes.too.

I know that there is a Leominster in Massachussetts, USA....not far from Worcester it seems, and even a Gloucester. I think most of the place names in that part of the area were so called by migrants to that area from the UK as a reminder of home.

It's "LEM-stuh" btw.

You don't really get it do you? Of course the Estuary to which Estuary refers to in the sense of that area of South East England around which Estuary allegedly developed over time post 1970s was the Estuary of the River Thames, of course....which I agree is quite far distant from the MK postcode area by UK measures.

Estuary is now pretty much the linga franca of the predominantly under 40s not only in the area around that bloody Estuary, but also around many other estuaries all over England, and is especially prevalent among the participants on the Jeremy Kyle Show.

Even the cretinous oaf who hosts that sewer scraping cesspit of a TV show either wittingly or unwittingly mocks the Great Unwashed under educated over fecund social welfare dependent overweight tattooed dedicated career baby machines with the rich vocabulary of a hardened frontline battle weary squaddie and their batallions of pissed up and drugged up welfare scrounging inseminators by emulating their Estuary speak in quite graphic style.

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/home.htm

Go look up "humour" and "irony" in a dictionary.

So you don't like it then?

You learn something new every day.

And today's lesson would be how to write a 67 word sentence without using any punctuation?

How do I nominate that last paragraph for a year end award? It surely deserves something, just not sure which category? "most descriptive", " most heartfelt", " most indecipherable", "most prolific use of adjectives", " best verbal painting", "best chemically induced/intoxicated post". So many choices.....

Needs to be something that encapsulates the vein-throbbing apoplexy of the author

warr..er...I have a Bristol accent which my family and friends take the piss out off occasionally..botllle of warr er as i dont sound my 't's

Whenever the subject of place name pronunciation comes up, I always mention, arguably the oddest of the 'cesters: Towcester ( pronounced "Toaster". )

Cirencester is the biggest oddity, because it is the only one (I think) with a phonetic pronunciation, which seems to be what confuses people.

BTW There are about twenty Gloucesters scattered across the US.

Please don't suggest a "vein throbber" category for the end of year awards....

Must..... Not..... GIS...

My old Dad always used to say that was pronounced Sisister, although I've never net anyone who agreed with him!

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing.