How come I can pronounce every non-anglicised Welsh and Irish placename going but have been mispronouncing “Lewes” all my life. What is going on with the English language.
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Or, perhaps, how is it spelt that way? Norfolk is great for this as
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I'm from Norfolk and have never heard that one. Stuukey?!
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A way of discerning locals from visitors? I was given the eye in the pub in Stiffkey for pronouncing it Stiffkey.
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Language is organic and never stops evolving, so eventually outgrows prescribed spellings.
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Because everyone snorted pronouncing it as spelt
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Embarrassment
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I'm amazed. Surely everybody knows of the famous Rector of Stiffkey (Stewkey), who took a Gladstonian attitude to ladies of the night, got spectacularly defrocked for his pains, and was gummed to death by an elderly lion? Lambeth Palace knows all about him, I can tell you.
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