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What are three very british words which are written differently to how they're spelt........ Like "chumly"?

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cdwrover123 | 13:40 Sat 18th Sep 2010 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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What are three very british words which are written differently to how they're spelt........ Like "chumly"?
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Mainwaring (Mannering)
Featherstone (Fanshaw)
Slaithwaite (Sla'wit)
Thought it was Featherstonehaugh for Fanshaw
I think you mean 'pronounced' differently. The only two which spring immediately to mind are also names, viz Marjoribanks (Marshbanks) and Featheringhaugh (Fanshawe).
Derby
OOps, should have put Featherstonehaugh...sorry

What kind of words ?
If we're going into place names, there are loads......
Bucket Bouquet
My mother knew a Mrs Sidebottom who insisted on being called Mrs Siddy b'tome if that counts!
Place names: Belvoir (Beever) and Rievaulx (Reevely)
Culross (Cooross)

Kilconqhar (Kinnuchar)

Strathaven (Straven)

Hawick (Hoik)
Marylebone (marlybone)
Althorp (pronounced Althrupp)
Bloke I used to work with who insisted his surname was O'Nions, and another one called De'Ath
What exactly are you looking for, cdwrover? Cholmondleigh (Chumly) is a name not a word in the British language, we could get a bit pedantic about this! ;-) - bouquet (for instance) comes from the French but is in common use in English.
You could say that most words in the English language of foreign derivation are pronounced otherwise than they are spelt, given the abundance of silent letters which would have been pronounced in the original language.

On a lighter note, the most extreme example has to be the hoarding outside the Victoria Palace theatre in London some years back which read, "The Black and White Minstrel Show". "Pronounced success!"
Cholmondeley - Chumley. Mid Cheshire. Pronounced Chumley or Chumly.

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