So tell me then why it is okay to mispronounce Greenwich as gren-itch?
because Gren-itch is the correct pronunciation, it's not a mis-pronunciation.
Green-itch is a mispronunciation. (I'm speaking of courser of Greenwich in England - if there is a Greenwich in American that may be different).
It's like those who call a little town not far from here "Oswald-twistle" The town is called Oswaldtwistle - the correct pronunciation is "Ozzletwistle"
Slaithwaite in Yorkshire - the correct pronunciation is "Slouw it" and whilst we're on that, the correct pronunciation of "Slough" doesn't have a "g" sound in it at all, These are correct pronunciations, not mispronunciations. What about Mr. Cholmondley and Mr. Featherstonehaugh? I have a friend called Dalziel - how you going to pronounce that one if you don't already know that it isn't pronounced anything like it's spelt?
Which of course all leads to the old joke about the frenchman trying to master the vaguaries of English pronunciation - he saw a sign outside a theatre which read "Hamlet's pronounced success", gave up and went home.
All the best,
Lawrence
All the best,
Lawrence
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