The Smoke Goes Up Just The Same...............

[Shaglene]

Why do some people say 'chimley' when the word is 'chimney'.....I await your comments.................

[Voltage]

i'll ask sooty later

[fiction-factory]

I think chimley sounds quite nice. Is it something children say as it's easier than chimney and then the word stays with them).
I know a few people who say refuge when they mean refuse (as in refuse collectors)

[jno]

is this a joke? Well, because the transition from M to N is hard for some people to get their tongues round. L to N can also be tricky, so if you're called Milne you may hear people pronounce it Millen.

[Shaglene]

Sweep could help as well............

[albaqwerty]

I like the word chimley.

[Voltage]

oh yes he'll have a hand in it lol

[vulcan42]

I have a friend who pronounces everything quite normally except for empty, he always says empy.

[Stephen_G]

A kid I went to School with pronounced it Chimbley

[Ken4155]

While in the throes of passion, my ex wife often got her 'K's and 'B's mixed up. "Oh, Ben, yes" she'd often murmur. Weird innit?

[marval]

My sweep said my chimney was too blocked for him, so he flue away.

[zebo]

Chimbley was quite common in the NW when I was growing up, my late Dad was also say 'ashphalt' for asphalt and 'prestinct' for precinct, would never be told he was wrong.

[sapelesam]

jno, I don't believe anybody is having a go at people with speech impediments.

[sapelesam]

I once worked with a lady who would say she'd been to the hospital for an Xer'ay.

[mazie]

It's a Lum up here... I'm having the Lum man round to sweep mine soon :o)

[sapelesam]

Lang may it reek.

[mazie]

I hope so Sam xx

[jennyjoan]

My friend could not say turnip just turmit - no matter how she tried - bless her.

[Old_Geezer]

Because that's how the locals pronounce it ?