How do you pronounce Shrewsbury?

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.

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!

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.

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

Now I'm confused Falcon

I travel to Gillingham, Dorset via train to see DS1 who lives in Somerset and I only ever hear it pronounced with a hard G!

May I politely disagree Falconbird Dorset is definitely Gill not Jill

I have a cousin called Gillian everyone pronounces her name Jillian so why not the place

The girl I worked with so many years ago who was from Gillingham in Dorset was most emphatic that it was prounced with a hard G

I can still picture her introducing herself and telling me that!
She was a lovely girl.

As we lived in the other Gillingham in Kent I remembered the difference.

I usually ask if anyone would like a scown, sconn or scoon - covers all eventualities!

Likewise with vayse, vause or varse. (Vase)

I can never understand introducing an "R" sound where there is none.

Newcastle is quite simply. New- cassel.

Why do some BBC announcers insist in saying N-YOO- CAR- SLE ??

A nyooo-car is something you buy in a garrij

I had never heard of a vase being pronounced 'vause' until I moved down to Devon, me luvverr

That's weird. My cousin who is Dorset born and bred always says Jillingham.
I know Gillingham in Kent is pronounced with a hard G and when I say we drove through Gillingham (Dorset) she always corrects me.

Anyone I've ever met from Shrewsbury has pronounce it Shroosbury.

I thought Gillingham in Kent is Jillingham

Went there not long ago and it was still Jillingham (DP lived there for a long time)

gillybob I think it's more to do with the long 'a' than its having an 'r'. I say caasle. I also don't pronounce the ' t' as I imagine none of us do, tho it still has one. Different regions treat vowels differently. I do say nyew rather than noo as well.
The two Gillinghams had slightly different names when the 1086 survey was done so that probably accounts for the soft and hard g we hear today as the name has evolved differently in each place. As for scones I rhyme it with stones although in the SE most people say sconns. I have heard both vawse and vaze tho I call it varse.

I say nyoo, I thought most people did, apart from people from East Anglia who pronounced it noo

Bootiful!

Dew, hew, few etc. too foo? Not really

Surely the "correct" way to pronounce a place name is the way it is spoken in the local dialect. Not some news reader speaking in a non accent.

How about Sherbourne. Sherborn or Sherbn?

I always say Awton Jifford (Aveton Gifford)
And Launceston is Lanson
I met some Tasmanians on holiday once and they came from Laun-*cess*-ton

Is that Launceston in Cornwall. We always say Lawnston. I wonder what the locals call it.

Something like Lanson, only say it quickly with a Cornish accent

Launceston in Tasmania seemed to be pronounced with the emphasis on the middle syllable and with a lazy Australian drawl

They grow a lot of lavender there.

rosequartz hope you say Yampton (Yealmpton) too!!

Shrewsbury (like the little mouse-like creature) Gillingham (Dorset) with a hard G..... now how about Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.........

rosequartz hope you say Yampton (Yealmpton) too!!
Of course!!
And Mowzle
I say 'Foy', is that how you pronounce Fowey?

I can say Llanfairpg in full, but some Welsh speakers on here may cringe at my accent!