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Please feel free to comment with your suggestions or This could be the most important list the North has ever known ? My point is, there are a lot of places out there, a lot of which have odd pronunciations and in these towns live pedants who love to “not understand” what you’re saying.īelow is our pronunciation guide to Northern towns with counterintuitive pronunciations. There is no way that – without some local knowledge – you could possibly deduce that Staithes is pronounced Steers. What is more likely, is he had been asked the same question by many tourists and simply enjoyed the opportunity to be awkward. Now, I don’t for a second think that this man really couldn’t understand what my Dad meant. “Oh, you mean Steers” he said, in a sudden light bulb moment.
My Dad pulled the car over and asked a passing gentleman “excuse me, do you know where Staithes is?”, “never heard of it” was his response.Īfter much confusion and more than a hint of pedantism from the passer by, my Dad resorted to writing the town name on a piece of paper. We had been in the car for quite some time when we started to wonder if we’d missed the town altogether. Travelling up the East coast, we were heading for a coastal town called Staithes. As is often the case this didn’t always go smoothly… With no sat nav to hand in those days, we would often resort to pulling over and asking someone for directions. Getting lost is one of my abiding memories. Jump to our pronunciation guide to Northern towns with counterintuitive pronunciations (below).Īs a child my parents often took me on camping trips around the north of England.