We've just bought a house!

[Chris Strellis]

> English town names are REALLY wierd..
> 
> for example -
> tewkesbury  is pronounced "chewk-s-bury"

In Norfolk there's a town called "Happisburgh" but it's pronounced
"Hayzboruh",  also there's "Stiffkey" pronounce "Stookey".

It's just a mechanism to sort out the locals from the tourists ;)

Like telling posh people from poor - the surname "Featherstonehaugh" is
pronounced "Fanshaw".

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070403125424AALq2ye

Cheers

Chris