<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On 10 January 2013 17:26, Philip Barnes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@trigpoint.me.uk" target="_blank">phil@trigpoint.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:NokiaPureTextLight">Shrewsbury is pronounced Shrew, a in the tiny animal, by locals.</span></p>

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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:NokiaPureTextLight">Have just asked someone born there, his comment was its only pronounced Shrowsbury by posh people who aren't from there, and those who go to shrowsbury school.</span></p>
</blockquote></div><br>My wife grew up in Shrewsbury and we go back there often. From the many locals I've talked to there is really no consensus on pronunciation and everyone has their own favourite theory, common among them being something about posh people or something about which side of the Welsh and English bridges people were on back in the day.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>For more fun on the numerous and hyper-local variations in accent, I'd recommend <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ljwm4">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ljwm4</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>You'd be a brave mapper indeed if you tried to add a definitive phonetic pronunciation to many place names!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style>Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Tom<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><a href="http://tom.acrewoods.net">http://tom.acrewoods.net</a>   <a href="http://twitter.com/tom_chance">http://twitter.com/tom_chance</a>
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