whitmerule:

gallusrostromegalus:

thingsareswinging:

gallusrostromegalus:

thingsareswinging:

My favourite linguistic trap:

Gloucester and Cirencester do not rhyme.

See, now I’m suspicious about how BOTH of these are pronounced.

Cirencester is actually basically phonetic- soft Cs

Gloucester, on the other hand, goes the Featherstonehaugh* route- ‘ignore as many letters and syllables as you can get away with’- and is pronounced Gloss-ter

#*pronounced Fanshaw

…I’ve been trying to come up with a proper reaction to this for six minutes now and can’t come up with more than >:/

I know how Cirencester is pronounced but my brain can’t help eliding it anyway and pronouncing it ‘sister’.