The Wirral village of Meols is pronounced 'mels', but go up on the other side of Liverpool to North Meols and it is pronounced 'mee-ols'. Really?
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Having thought that Lancashire books would be easy for me to read aloud, I find unexpected traps and pitfalls that regularly have me cutting and pasting corrections into completed audio files. I'll come to the dialect passages another time. For now, I'll mention a few place names. Blackley ("Blakely"), Rawtenstall ("Rottenstall"), Bacup ("Bakeup") and Horwich ("Horritch"), I knew. Euxton ("Exton"), Myerscough ("Mersco"), Burscough ("Bersco"), Samlesbury ("Samsbury"), Haigh ("Hay") and Brathay ("Braythee), I have learned the hard way. And then there are Darwen ("Darren") and Whalley ("Worley") that I have seen mentioned, but don't quite believe. I suppose there's often one way that those who are born and bred in a place say its name and another that outsiders use, and I'm guessing that this may well be the case with Darwen and Whalley.
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Phil Benson
Born in Manchester when it was still part of Lancashire, which it still is really. Exiled in sunny Sydney, I love to read Lancashire books Archives
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