How do you pronounce Shrewsbury?

We visited quite regularly when I was young and always heard that it was -owe-.

I've sorted out the Gillingham, Jillingham thing in my head.

Gillingham in Kent is pronounced Jillingham.

The locals in Dorset say Gillingham.

Think that's sorted now

For Mousehole we say Mowzle.

yes, sorry I meant river not border!

I heard that it different depending which side of the welsh border, if you are English side you call it 'owe' and if welsh 'ew'. I know people in shrewsbury and they all say it the second way.

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

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

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

rosequartz hope you say Yampton (Yealmpton) too!!

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.

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

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

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

How about Sherbourne. Sherborn or Sherbn?

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.

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

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

Bootiful!

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 thought Gillingham in Kent is Jillingham

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

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

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.

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

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

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)

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

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!