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Thread #110424   Message #2486452
Posted By: Paul Burke
06-Nov-08 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
There's a certain latitude in the pronunciation. Some people elide it to Ullamzuthite, others separate it a bit more, say Ullam Zut Thite. But my knowledge of it is from over thirty years ago:

Didn't I come from Lancasheer,
It's great to come from Lancasheer,
Where women all wear clogs and shawl
And men are really men,
Myself I come from Lancasheer,
I'm proud to come from Lancasheer,
And once you've come from Lancasheer
You'll never go there again!

Ask el Gnomo for currently favoured pronunciation (if it's not been renamed Westview or something like that).

The newspaper article Woody referred to would probably have continued that Lancashire folk say by eck and ecky thump and weers me cap, theer's trouble at t't't't'mill.