Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: come si pronuncia il nome della città  "Leicester" ?

grazie  (io direi leisestčr )
ciao 

 ciao
"lester"

 grazie  (io direi leisestèr )
Io direi lest@
p.s.
Che strano, sul dizionario americano Merriam-Webster online sento
mest@r con la emme!
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggleic01.wav=Leicester

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"lester"
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We have a "Lester" near us here in Massachusetts, and a "Wooster" too.
The one I like is "Grosvenordale", which no one pronounces correctly except
people who live in the immediate area, or who work for the telephone
company.
Joe from Massachusetts

ciao 
Leicester: /lest@/  
Leicestershire: /'lest@,Si:@/
British names are funny like that.
Worcester = /wUst@/
Gloucester = /glost@/
There's obviously a pattern!
-- 
Raymot
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Brisbane, Aus.

 grazie  (io direi leisestèr )
Leicester  == 'lEst@   ("lester")
Bicester   == 'bIst@   ("bister")
Towcester  == 't@Ust@  ("toaster")
Leominster == 'lEmst@  ("lemster")
Gillingham: due pronuncie una dove si sente 
            la "g" di "...ngham" e una no
Antonio

 Io direi lest@
E io /'lEst@/, con la e aperta.
-- 
Tchau, -João do Sabão

 E, terribile, Wriothesley?
/'rIsli/ o /'rIzli/?
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io direi Leisster 

 E Warwick?
In Northumberland ricordo che c'erano un sacco di cittadine che avevano 
il suffisso -wick. Berwick-upon-Tweed, la città inglese più 
settentrionale, viene pronunciata "berrick", così come la graziosa 
"Alnwick" è "Annick".
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
-- 
"E come si sa?" "Da una serie di deduzioni per il rispetto che si deve 
all'intelligenza."

 Leominster == 'lEmst@  ("lemster")
Happisburg == 'heIzbro

 telephone company.
When I was over in Boston there was a "Worcester" on the map but the
locals pronounced it as it was written. Same (iirc) with "Towcester".
Antonio

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I live a stone's throw from Leicester, which is adjacent to Worcester, and
when someone asks where Leicester is, the answer is "Lestas westa Wusta".
Here in Massachusetts, I have never heard "Worcester" pronounced in any way
other than the way it is pronounced in Britain, that is, something like
"Wusta", or "Wuster", depending on where in Massachusetts you live. You must
have only spoken with out-of-towners. I worked here with men from other
states, and they always got a laugh when the locals heard them say
"War-chester" or "War-sester". If you ask for directions to Worcester using
that pronunciation, you will certainly draw attention to yourself as an
outsider, all the while getting a laugh from bystanders.
There is no Towcester in Massachusetts, but if there were, it would be
"Toaster" or "Toasta".
Joe from Massachusetts

 Massachusetts, but if there were, it would be "Toaster" or "Toasta".
Might have been Leominster? I remember Manchester too, but I assume
that that one causes no problems for anyone. May not have been strictly
in the state either, just on whatever map someone was using to show
me how to get to wherever I was supposed to go that evening.
Antonio

 inglesi.
se mi ricordo bene la canzone, l'hanno pronunciata come
mi avrei aspettato.
Antonio
 

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arca...@iee.org
 
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There's a Scarborough near where I live. It's called /ska:br@/
In a song, if they need three syllables for three beats, they 
*use* three syllables. Of course, that doesn't mean they could 
get away with "Lei-ces-ter Fair". Obviously some abbreviated
pronunciations are more negotiable than others.
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Raymot
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/brIzb@n, @'straeija/
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