So ... Shreewsbury, Shroesbury or Shoesbury ....

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  1. Mr Badger

    Mr Badger Well-Known Member

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    as their local radio commentator on Ifollow was calling them?
     
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    O doesn't exist in its name

    So option 1
     
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    The medieval spelling of Shrewsbury - Scrobbesbrigg (or something similar) did have an "o" in it. I taught at a posh school in Shrewsbury for 25 years, and almost all the pupils pronounced the name as "Shrowesbury",'so I too adopted that pronunciation. That's also the way the name was pronounced by BBC Sports Report football results reader, James Alexander Gordon. Most working class Shrewsbury inhabitants pronounce the town's name as Shoes (like the footwear)bury. That pronunciation, with the "r" added, is a compromise between the two and is often used by people who have little or no connection with the town, a town of which I became extremely fond.
     
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    Made a change to hear the other teams commentary and it not being totally biased claptrap
     
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    The Taming of the Shroe?
    The Taming of the Shoe?

    I don't think so.
     
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    Glad you answered this so I didn't have to try (not as well!).
     
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    This is great 'scientific' pub crawl analysis from a Professor at University of Shrewsbury, about 15 mins in.
    I think I might have enjoyed studying there :)

     
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    i heard its something to do with which side of the river you where born on as to which name you use
     
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    Whichever name it goes well with.

    ............0 v Barnsley 1..
     
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    I believe that the correct (local) pronunciation is "o" and not "ew".

    It's a bit like Barnsley, we say the hard "a" not the southern soft "a", I hated it when John Dennis used to try to sound posh by saying "Bornsley" like a soft southerner....
     
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    Who cares ?
     
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    Shrews and shoes evidently...
     
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    It's "Shroe".
     
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    I'd rather that than Baaaaarnsley which people from outside the Borough think we say.
     
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