For the international folk who might not know, “Cholmondeley” is pronounced “Chumly”
I honestly can’t tell if this is true or some British chaps having fun at our expense.
I’m leaning towards it being true solely because I know how Worcester is pronounced.
Ha, honest truth!
About 30 minutes away is the similarly-named Cholmondeston (Chum-stn).
These two places are in Cheshire. There’s also the always confusing Wynbunbury (Winbry), and the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, Daresbury (Darsbry).
You have a city named after a venereal disease and it’s pronounced Cum Stain? Get the fuck outta here!
That’s not even the worst. The one that pisses my off is how “St Johns” is pronounced “Sinjin”. Wtf it’s not hard to pronounce in the first place, why the fuck is it said like that?!
Based on absolutely nothing, my guess would be from the French pronunciation with a bit of a vowel-shift.
It just pisses me off that people forced me to learn english grammar in school like it was a set of rules laid out to logically structure language when grammar classes should just have involved taking the class on a group crime trip through language city roughing up words and sticking em good with silent useless letters, switching out the endings of words with ones that clearly don’t fit, climbing up onto road signs over highways and causing chaos by painting over the old sign directions with new ones written in riddles and installing street parking signs everywhere that all contradict each other like the rules of grammar do.
The only way for citizens to live a relatively normal life in this city is to frantically try to keep up with memorizing the arbitrarily changing rules of their universe and just give up all hope in unifying things under a rational even vaguely consistent system.
I thought Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, and Alice Liddell lived in Sunderland. There are monuments to Alice all over the town according to an historical book by Neil Gaiman. Did he just move there as an adult?
It’s spelled “Worcestershire”.
Taking the piss. It rhymes with cardamom Chardonnay.
The Brits saw the French silent letters and said “oi, hold me tea.”
Of course it is…
As a kiwi, that does my head in…
It’s worse even than the new orleans “naahlins” thing
Southerner here, it’s “norlins” but lots of us also call it “Nola”
It makes perfect sense when you realize Americans try to speak by making as few sounds as possible.
I’m from the UK and I didn’t know that
If you’re getting old like me, you might remember Harry Enfield’s Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches. (And if you’re not, definitely look them up!)
Yeh I remember those sketches. I think it’s a case of never having seen it written down
And how might we pronounce Marchioness?
Ah, right.
“Mar-shuh’ness”. It’s a bit trickier to transliterate how to say the back part. It’s like the perfume company, Chanel - it’s that same “Shuh’ne” sound.
So like, a lady martian. Got it.
It’s the feminine version of “marquis” apparently. If anyone else was wondering what the fuck a marchioness was
You say that as if any of us know what a marquis is.
It’s a member of the 24th-century paramilitary organization-terrorist group of the same name of course! Notable members will include Laren, Torres, Chakotay, and even one of the Riker twins.
I stopped actually reading your post when I realized I just wanted to make the Star Trek joke but then I realized I was actually in fact reading the Star Trek joke.
They’re all suspiciously good looking, that is how you know they’re secret rebels for a lost cause.
I think it’s that thing on a movie theater
No, it’s a tent you set up in field to hold wedding receptions under.
I only know because of Final Fantasy Tactics.
So I know they’re vampires already.
From Wikipedia:
A marquess (UK: /ˈmɑː®kwɪs/;[1] French: marquis [maʁki])[2][a] is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman with the rank of a marquess or the wife (or widow) of a marquess is a marchioness or marquise. These titles are also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan.
In Great Britain and historically in Ireland, a marquess ranks below a duke and above an earl. A woman with the rank of a marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is a marchioness /ˌmɑːrʃəˈnɛs/.[3] The dignity, rank, or position of the title is a marquisate or marquessate.
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It’s a fairly common title, so you should know what it is if you were born West of Turkey.
Ah, you see I was born east of Turkey where titles mean nothing despite being part of the Commonwealth.
My condolences and congratulations on not being born in the US.
Bud, the US literally outlawed aristocratic titles. And good riddance to them. The only time a US citizen sees a word like ‘marquis’ is in a world history class in college.
Which shows how poor your public education is. The monarchy was disbanded in Brazil in the year 1889; We still learn about it in grade school history.
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Marquis? No, that’s a set of large, lit-up letters. You’re thinking of a Marshal.
Marquee is a signboard with light up letters, my liege.
Cholmondeley can be treated with antibiotics, just tell your doctor if you feel a burning sensation.
You’re thinking oh chlamydia. She’s more like the plant organelle turning sunlight into sugar.
You’re thinking of the chloroplast, this lady is the Marchioness of the stuff you use to knock people out.
That’s chloroform, the woman in the picture is associated with a threadlike structure that holds a molecule of DNA.
You’re thinking of a chromosome. The woman pictured is a popular fire-type starter pokemon.
No, that’s Charmeleon. She’s the marshmallow of separating chemicals for analysis in a moving phase.
No, that’s chromatography. She’s the March Hare-ess of when people work together in the spirit of friendship and community.
It’s weird how posh people all have the same face. And it’s weird how they dress in that way. And it’s weird that they own all the land and money. Weird weird weird.
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HOW IS THIS STILL A THING IN 2024
She is rockin a pretty sweet britfro though
I dunno, if she pursed her lips together any tighter she could use them to cut sheet metal.
I’m sure she can make commoners break out in a cold sweat just by raising her eyebrow by a fraction of a millimetre.
I could fix her.
That’s hair‽‽‽ I thought it was a hat.
Excuse me, Benedict Cumberbatch, will you pass the worcheshire sauce?
Hey, don’t make fun of Bandersnatch Cumberbund; he’s my favorite wizard.
Worcestershire* though to be fair, I have to Google the correct spelling, and I have used the sauce weekly for almost 4 decades.
Pfft, you won’t find me introducing her to anyone. Aristocrats would never breathe the same air as me.
Is this also who William was potentially having an affair with?
I don’t blame him
IKR? Who could say no to that hat.
I like her hat, unfortunate photo, though.
The talk show host pointed out that Cholmondeley is actually pronounced “Chumley” and made the bizarre pronunciation a running joke. “Now there have been rumors an affair between William and the Marching Band of Chicanery since 2019,” he said, mocking her title.
-Stephen Colbert trolls Prince William’s alleged affair with Rose Hanbury
There’s no Fookin’ way in the King’s English this is the real way to pronounce this!?!
There’s no Fookin’ way in the King’s English this is the real way to pronounce this!?!
Worcestershire. Pronounced wooster-sure. I do believe The King’s English takes the piss whenever possible.
See also: Through…
Oooh! And Norfolk. That one is pronounced Nah-fuck, at least in Virginia, US. Not certain how the original town is said, I assume it’s similar, but the accent may have drifted in the last 400 years or so since the new one was founded.
Nor-fuck in the UK, so sort of close I guess.
