Talk:Southwark

message: Has anyone actually heard anyone else say "[ˈsʌvək]"? --stochata 13:28, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Besides the people that live and/or work there?  I do feel slightly uneasy about including it, however, since it's certainly non-standard.  BovineBeast 11:18, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I was under the impression that the transform of dental fricatives to labio-dental fricatives was a standard feature of the dialects (and fairly common in esturary English, too). So, I am not sure if you could call it 'non-standard' in the sense of 'uncommon', but definitely not RP :). I think that it might tend more towards unvoiced, and to my ears has sounded rather more f-ey than v-ey, although vocalisation is present (intervocalic as it is). I think that it is just to include local pronunciations, after who has more right to the name? Anonymous Coward 9:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

text: As I local I think we say ˈsʌðək - I don't think the cockney v is in that much usage locally. I may be wrong though. It certainly isn't the local standard. Secretlondon 03:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sarf of the river 

message: Hi. Thanks for adding the details of the civil administration prior to the :Metropolitan Borough of Southwark. Two points, first its a bit notelike, and second I think it would be better placed in that article since that deals with prior civil administrations for the area. What do you think? cheers Kbthompson (talk) 08:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Civil administration 

message: I don't think locals would necessarily say that Southwark and (the) Borough are the same place. Southwark seems to me to cover a much bigger area; Borough is a section of Southwark. Whatever the official position, might this be worth mentioning in the page? It's a subject that has received some attention on the local community web site, which is www.london-se1.co.uk Macphysto (talk) 18:50, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Borough the same as Southwark? 

message: This is a remnant from Gropecunt Lane which I thought I'd place in this article, but to my surprise nothing is written about the prostitution therein.  Anyway, I'll put it here instead.  The citation is below.
* Another street with a similar history in Southwark is Horselydown Lane.  It has been suggested that this derives from "whores lie down"; however it is more likely to derive from "horse lea"—a lea (meadow) for grazing horses.
* 
Parrot of Doom (talk) 20:19, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope. The history of the name is pretty clear from contemporary records. It is to do with horse grazing and the local Fair Streeet, was the horse fair. 79.72.80.60 (talk) 07:15, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  horselydown lane 

message: "From the Norman period manorial organisation obtained through major lay and ecclesiastic magnates."
Isn't that a rather archaic use of "to obtain"? I had to read the sentence three times before I figured out which word was the verb! Sergeirichard (talk) 22:54, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical Language 

message: Can anyone add voice files for how Southwark is pronounced worldwide as well as locally? Thanks--Rosswood40 (talk) 12:10, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Note from Youngs that the ancient borough comprised:
*Southwark St George the Martyr
*Southwark St Olave
*Southwark St Margaret (until 1541)
*Southwark St Mary Magdeline (until 1541)
*Southwark St Saviour (from 1541)
*Southwark St Thomas (from c. 1550)
*Southwark St John Horsleydown (from 1733)
Need to work this into the prose of article. MRSC (talk) 11:27, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ancient borough

message: As it stands, the article contradicts itself. Is it the Surrey Wark or the South Wark? Dadge (talk) 13:13, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: I would prefer the main picture to be a building more closely associated with borough of southwark. The picture of the cathedral confuses (in my mind) the Borough of S with the substantially larger diocese of Southwark  (and the smaller area known as the Borough). Andrewblack (talk) 00:59, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo of cathedral