How do you pronounce Shrewsbury?

The Gillingham in Dorset is pronounced Jillingham - don't know why.

moleswife I don't think I've head it pronounced Gillingham rather than "Jillingham" when traveling though it by train
Another one local to me is Malling which should rhyme with ball not mall as in shopping centre.

My two-penerth re. pronunciation (pronunsiashn and not pronownsiashn!)

Shrowsbury

Lemster

Jillingham

Likerish

Skones

Yesterday, a Radio 4's presenter told us we were now going over to a colleague in 'Har-wik', (Hawick) pronunced 'Hoyik' by most of the country!

My bete noire is Marylebone which should be pronounced 'Marleebn' but often isn't!

www.shropshirestar.com/news/2015/06/27/shrowsbury-or-shroosbury-the-results-are-in

Even the townspeople cannot agree - as I said in an earlier post, my family (some from there!)always pronounced it Shroosbury but my posh boyfriend who lived there said it was Shrowsbury and a matter of which side of the river you lived.
He was an awful snob too posh and mean for me.

Then the most annoying one is Gillingham - this has to be Gill/Jill as in the name, definitely not gill as in a part of a fish
moleswife the train driver must have lost his way, as there is a Gillingham with a hard 'G' like the gill of a fish in Dorset
I worked with someone who came from there, and she was most emphatic about how it should be pronounced (with a Dorset accent!)

Defo - Shrowsbury!

Apparently "Shropshire did not exist until the tenth century, when Alfred the Great and his successors divided the country into administrative shires (a word derived from the Anglo-Saxon scir, meaning sphere of office).... The first mention of the Anglo-Saxon shire of Scrobbescire or Shropshire is in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle when, in the year 1006, King Ethelred the Unready, pursued by the Danes, 'passed over the Thames into Scrobbes-byrig-scire'."

From the book Cadfael Country by Rob Talbot and Robin Whiteman.

Both my parents were stationed at Shawbury in the RAF during the war and they pronounced it as Shrow ( rhyming with show). It was only later in life I heard it as Shrewsbury (shrew - small mammal). English place names are a pronunciation minefield.

We used to go for a curry in Kharmah in Walsall until I saw it written as Caldmore .

We live near a village called Euxton (only one letter away from Euston) pronounced Exton.

Barminess!

Yes, I remember now Greyduster. I learnt this on another thread courtesy of Granjura I believe.

Well, three now ( at least by two of us)

bellanonna I think it's pronounced 'Stewkey'. We had lunch in a pub there once, and the landlord told us!

But adding a consonant is a bit different. There are lots of UK place names that aren't pronounced as they're spelled but Shrewsbury usually only has two possible pronunciations.

But why would you pronounce Stiffkey in Norfolk without the FFs? I can't remember the exact pronunciation but just that it's not as it looks

Eh? Why would anyone think it was pronounced with a 'v' in it...?

I actually thought it was Shrovesbury. I've always called it that.

Shrows.

Oops, I always call it ShrOVEsbury

jueperry, what's the difference between 'shroosbury' and 'shrewsbury'?

They're both 'oo' sounds to me!

Yes, but if that is the case then Leominster should be Lee-oh-minster
and here are a few more:

www.bbcamerica.com/shows//blog/2014/01/pronounce-deliberately-offputting-british-place-names


Our sat nav always pronounces our home town incorrectly!

I live in Shrewsbury and get annoyed when hearing it pronounced shroosbury or shrowsbury. Shrew shrew shrew! It's how it's spelt.

Shrowsbury I say but in midlands they say Shrewsbury....I think. What about scons or scownes?

I was brought up in nearby Bridgnorth and we always used to Shrow.
Nearer to me now, is Happisburgh... and there's only one way to say that....

Shrow, went to boarding school there.

I live near and say Shroosbury