Have yer seen this one,Ged?

[BlueJeans]

When I first looked I thought it was an entry ! .. closer inspection and I see it's actually a street !

Yes, Liverpool was the first City to build 'front to front' houses.

[johnny blue]

What a coincidence Ged, I was only talking to Franny Carlise the other day about the location the street at the side of the old session house, he also mentioned reading street and how it was pronounced incorrectly.

[gregs dad]

We had this trouble in school, teachers wanting us to pronounce it as Redding St but the people who have lived there for over a 100 years had always pronounced it Reeding St,as in reading books

[lindylou]

On the subject of pronunciation;
Here's one I have never known how to say - Dunluce st, Walton. Is it Donelooss or Dunlusee ??
Someone told me that the e is not pronounced -- like you wouldn't say Gt Charlotte st as Gt Charlottie ! (although I have heard of people saying Charlottie!) .. .. is that like saying Siddybotarm when your name is really Sidebottom !

The other one that I always hesitate to pronounce is Ponsonby st.
Should we say it like posh people 'Ponson be' -- or the 'common way' .. PonsONbee ?? (I say it the 'common way!' )

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.. just thought on - - is it Gerard (posh way sounds a bit French) or Gerrad gardens? ( a shorter more clipped sound).

Ged & Gerard ! how do you say Gerard Gdns?

[Ged]

I say it as Gerrad Gardens, the posh way sounds more like Steven Gerrard which is double R.

[GeorgePorgie]

Its got an "Ard in its pronounciation.MrsLou.

[lindylou]

Its got an "Ard in its pronounciation.MrsLou.

I think that's how I'd say it. Like Steven Gerrard.

[Ged]

Yes, to say GerARD is probably the correct pronunciation, it's just that I say Yeller for yellow and winder for window. Common as muck me.

[lindylou]

I say it as Gerrad Gardens, the posh way sounds more like Steven Gerrard which is double R.

ah yes, the double R makes the difference.

I'm getting confused now !

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Yes, to say GerARD is probably the correct pronunciation, it's just that I say Yeller for yellow and winder for window. Common as muck me.

I say winder for window !! my husband always skits me for saying it!

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What do you reckon about Dunluce st then ??

[Ged]

I'd say Dunlucee yet for Gt Charlotte street I wouldn't over pronounce the E. I'd say it like you say Apple Charlotte.

Ponsonby I think we could take the Dickens pronunciation for that as just Pon son bee.

[lindylou]

I'd say Dunlucee yet for Gt Charlotte street I wouldn't over pronounce the E. I'd say it like you say Apple Charlotte.

Ponsonby I think we could take the Dickens pronunciation for that as just Pon son bee.

Yes, I'd tend to say Dunlucee.

I'd never say Lottie for Great Charlotte st !

Can't make my mind up about Ponsonby !

[ItsaZappathing]

Partheneon - Now that was always said wrong when I was a nipper. Parth E Non was what most said but it is pronounced Parth een eon

[lindylou]

Yeah that's another difficult one. Most people say it the wrong way.

[ItsaZappathing]

Have people just got lazy. ?
For instance.. Landford Ave, most of the kids who live there know it as Lanford with no "D".

[lesley1]

There was a street just by us called Thompson Street, off Netherfield Road when I was younger.

Only just found out all these years later it was called Thomaston Street.