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knew that was wymondham!
*casually awaits imminent comments about the pronounciation of wymondham*

Wind-am.

Obviously. :)

I had some American friends at uni, listening to them try and pronounce Norfolk placenames was hilarious. Norrich. Happys-burg. Wye-mond-ham. Cost-essy. etc.

Oh my word, I haven't seen that since I was a stripling. Nice to think that at a time when the local councils of so many places were tearing out stuff like market squares & shambles, to shove in brutalist shopping precincts, the people of Wymondham thought this was worth restoring.

Thanks for reminding me of unintentional USAF hilarity when off-base activities were discussed. Bless 'em, they all seemed to have done the same preparation too, & spent their first few weeks trying to drop the assumption that there were such places as Norfolkshire or Suffolkshire...

Ahem. I fell foul of Wymondham and Happysburgh when I briefly worked in Norwich too.

In fact, remind me, how do you say Costessy?

"Coss-ey". It has a silent 't', like the French.

No! The correct phrase is Dorothy Parker's (I think) comment to Jean Harlow "It has a silent 'T'.. like Harlow"

Merci Beaucoup.

Salome, imdb has it as Margot Asquith (wife of the Prime Minister) in response to Jean Harlow's mispronunciation of her forename...

Oh yes! That's right. I tend to assume that these things are always Dorothy Parker.
Thanks!

I didn't know I was quoting. I just meant that, in French, the t is silent a lot.

doh.

On the basis that you collect information & no more than that; the french would probably pronounce that Cost-essee. It's only a terminal "t" that's generally silent, as in "Merlot" but not "couturier".

*hoards factlet*

I probably knew that, if I'd thought a bit more. I keep speaking german to the dog, so my french-head is a bit rustier than normal.

Clearly, you need a trip to Alsace, just to properly confuse yourself.