Pronouncing City Names

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  1. Eas

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    To the Finns, London is Lontoo...
     
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    Quality lol. You’re on form mate on some of the other replies n’all. :)
     
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    “That’s easy for you to say.”

    On a serious note. One of the union reps I used to work with (from tarn end. Derek Hunton his name. for anyone that knows him. a reight character) We were in a meeting.
    A gaffer was laying down the law. And had a pronounced stutter, made worse cos he was in an angry mood. ( the gaffer that is) . The rep came out with. Straight faced. “ That’s eysy fo thee to seh.” How the **** we kept a straight face I’ll never know. I had to turn away to conceal mine. Even the other gaffers had to hold the chuckle bones.
     
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    Hooky feller Well-Known Member

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    Borussia is the Latin for Prussia. Mönchengladbach is the city (Same as Dortmund). Bayern is the German for Baveria.

    It was popular to name German football teams after the state and the city apparently. So we could have been South Riding Barnsley.
     
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    Never been a south riding .
    Riding or the original wording meant Thirding in Old Norse or Saxon .
    So a third North Riding a third East Riding and a third West Riding .
    We were part of West Riding.
     
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    Finnish is a bonkers language. I've read a few Finnish grammar books and it genuinely makes Russian look easy. St Petersburg is "Pietari".

    Luckily it's only spoken in Finland, and even then 90% of the population can use English very functionally, so it's not anything I'll be worrying about any time soon.
     
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    What about Borussia? That city has 2 teams Dortmund and Munchengladbach.
     
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    Way back when the Royal Navy rules the waves etc they had a base in the Italian city of Livorno - which they called Leghorn.
     
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    Don’t get me started ! I’m still seething how they got to Menzies Cambell as Ming Cambell:(
     
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    I know, it was a reference to the old fanzine :)
     
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    give us an L.........................Oh I cannot be arsed :D
     
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    Not only do we change the names in English, we can't even agree then. Moscow... "Moscoh" or "Mos-cow" as the Americans say. Wien is just confusing. I only learnt recently that Wiener means 'from Vienna'. Of course it does. Confusion for no reason. I know what Midge Ure was talking about.

    Speaking of Russia, I think I've just heard the Russian fans singing "Ruh-sia!" Do we pronounce everything incorrectly?
     
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    Try some of the Welsh places.... Swansea/Abertawe ....really
     
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    It's "Rossiya". But the language and ethnicity are "russkiy", and the citizenship, just to make things even more complicated, is "rossiskiy"!
     
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    In WWI, the English Tommies didn’t know how to pronounce Ypres, so called it ‘Wipers’
     
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    In my head i was still sayin dike.
     
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    Moscow . . . Mockba pronounced Muskva ? I was once asked by a lost motorist the way to Barruff Green but he wasn't Russian.
     
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    Ha, very amusing about the motorist! Was it Adam Hinchcliff on his moped? Just in case you ever get asked again, it's pronounced Mosk-VA, with the stress on the last part. In Cyrillic it looks like Москва.
     
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    And not Deekay, me too. It's mi stupid brain :rolleyes:
     
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