Ray Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Burgh Castle = Borough or Burr? Who makes the next coffee is at stake here... so it's serious! 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CambridgeCabby Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted October 21, 2021 Author Share Posted October 21, 2021 White, no sugar... many thanks 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 I've always heard it pronounced Burh .. no ruh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lulu Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 I thought it was Burr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydraser Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Buur Caarsll. Remember where you are! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 I have heard both. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairTmiddlin Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 What we as local kids called it. Cannot be entered here as the filters would go loopy, but the second word sounded like Car Sell. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwanR Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Think Edinburgh and copy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshman Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Well said Jean - let too many furriners into Norfolk and we won't know where the hell we are! How on earth could you pronounce "burgh" as "burr" - never was until outsiders got hold of it! Never pronounced Cley either, as those posh foreign people do, always been Clay to me since I was a tiddler up that way! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebell Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Now for the BIG one - the place where Herbert Woods are located… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairTmiddlin Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Local speak Poh er am 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldgregg Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 It's Borough. You'll hear 'Burr' a lot because of the spelling, but that is incorrect. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbx5 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Good one MM, when I get a job around Cley and the owners say Clie always thought it should be as it’s spelt Cley (Clay) John 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 57 minutes ago, oldgregg said: You'll hear 'Burr' a lot because of the spelling, but that is incorrect. Oh, like "Stookey" instead of Stiffkey? or "Windam" instead of Wymondham. or "Haysbruh" instead of Happisburgh? It may be incorrect but it is Norfolk dialect. Doon' tchoo noo narthin? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wussername Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Hautbois anyone? Norfolk folk excluded. Andrew 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeePee1952 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Oo-er I think I've learnt something! Have always referred to it as Burgh (as in Berg) Castle Chris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldgregg Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 44 minutes ago, Vaughan said: It may be incorrect but it is Norfolk dialect. Thass us Naarij blooks wass sayin' it rung, buh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Wussername said: Hautbois anyone? Norfolk folk excluded. Andrew Hobbis? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wussername Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 10 minutes ago, vanessan said: Hobbis? You have won a cigar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairTmiddlin Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 And you always know when you are in Norfolk. When you hear Hint used instead of isn't. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 1 hour ago, FairTmiddlin said: And you always know when you are in Norfolk. When you hear Hint used instead of isn't. Exactly! Norfolk people never drop their aitches. This sets it apart from Essex or Cockney. "Oi hint never hard nothin loik it". This is also an example of the classic Norfolk triple negative! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 3 hours ago, Wussername said: You have won a cigar. 🤢 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Vaughan said: "Oi hint never hard nothin loik it". This is also an example of the classic Norfolk triple negative! I grew up surrounded by broad Suffolk so am nearly bilingual - my favourite is "Well do that don't, that did do!" Said by my dear old grandad when something wasn't where he expected it to be (probably on the shelf in the back'us) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YnysMon Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 2 hours ago, Vaughan said: This is also an example of the classic Norfolk triple negative! Good old Anglo Saxon. In that language more negatives just emphasised the negative'ness. This whole concept of negatives cancelling out each other is just an imposition on English from another language's grammatical rules. I'm not sure why I decided to study Old and Middle English in Uni, but it was fun and turned a lot of 'rules' upside down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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