Go Electric

[b'knighted]

Chas & Dave, Rockney performers, did a song about Margate but the one you should listen to is called “Doesn’t anybody here speak English, any more?” (Or maybe “Don't anybody ……

 

[clevtrev]

How about the good old English place, Beaulieu? If you don't already know how the English pronounce it, you'll never guess.

Hint: if you know anything about French, you have no chance of correctly pronouncing it.

You`d best ask Glenn.

 

[Magnetoman]

Chas & Dave, Rockney performers, did a song about Margate

Add 'mar-git' to the growing list of official pronunciations:

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

Now we know where the gits all come from.

 

[Robert Watson]

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Now we know where the gits all come from.

Salt Spring Island??

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

No our local gits all moved here from the UK and Abbotsford.

 

[Hugo Myatt]

Norfolk is the champion.

Hunstanton - pronounced Hunston
Cotessey - pronounced Cossey
Berghapton - pronounced Bruhapton
Happisburgh -(wait for it) pronounced Hazebrer

 

[vibrac]

Add 'mar-git' to the growing list of official pronunciations:

Ah Chas & Dave
Now those two geezas came to a local village pub and they played real rock and roll not that cockney rubbish, I swear their 'Little Queenie' was better than Chuck Berry's original (and of course that is physically impossible)

NB: No I dont think this is off the thread perhaps this thread should be Go Eclectic rather than Electric

 

[bmetcalf]

I knew that phrase sounded familiar:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...electric-at-the-newport-folk-festival-114743/

 

[stu spalding]

Happisburgh -(wait for it) pronounced Hazebrer

Unless it's the offshore light in which case it's pronounced as spelt. Cheers, Stu.