{"id":307,"date":"2013-07-11T12:19:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T12:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=307"},"modified":"2014-04-25T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T11:09:43","slug":"some-troublesome-place-names","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=307","title":{"rendered":"Some troublesome place-names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of some UK places whose names are certainly not predictable from their spelling. They can all take the suffix <em>shire<\/em>, pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283\u0259<\/span>, to give the name of the relevant county.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cambridge =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8ke\u026ambr\u026ad\u0292<\/span><br \/>\nDerby = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8d\u0251\u02d0bi<\/span><br \/>\nGloucester = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8\u0261l\u0252st\u0259<\/span><br \/>\nLincoln =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8l\u026a\u014bk\u0259n<\/span><br \/>\nHereford = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8her\u026af\u0259d<\/span><br \/>\nHertford =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8h\u0251\u02d0(t)f\u0259d<\/span><br \/>\nWarwick = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8w\u0252r\u026ak<\/span><br \/>\nWorcester =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8w\u028ast\u0259<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Graham Pointon for pointing out that the ending <em>-shire<\/em> is usually pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283a\u026a\u0259r<\/span> in Scotland.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Updated 2014_04_25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of some UK places whose names are certainly not predictable from their spelling. They can all take the suffix shire, pronounced \u0283\u0259, to give the name of the relevant county. Cambridge = \u02c8ke\u026ambr\u026ad\u0292 Derby = \u02c8d\u0251\u02d0bi Gloucester = \u02c8\u0261l\u0252st\u0259 Lincoln = \u02c8l\u026a\u014bk\u0259n Hereford = \u02c8her\u026af\u0259d Hertford = \u02c8h\u0251\u02d0(t)f\u0259d Warwick = \u02c8w\u0252r\u026ak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions\/2033"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}