Re: Wrexham to London

The Real Doctor wrote:

On 22 Feb, 10:35, Chris Tolley <cj...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Indeed. That said, have you *ever* actually heard an 'h' pronounced in
the middle of it? The spelling I used looks more like what I hear people
saying.

[Small ponder later]

It would never occur to me to pronounce Wrexham other than as Reksam,
and certainly not with an 'h'. Is that a Scottish thing, maybe?

Dunno - it won't be a thing many Scots have to worry about. The -ham
ending is Anglo-Saxon, and even in Dumfries & Galloway, which had
Anglians resident, such place names are rare. I can only find an a
Kirkpatrick Durham and an Edingham, just north of Dalbeattie, Would you
sound the 'h' in that?

But it is interesting. I note that when I say "Brixham", I say the "h",
but not in "Wrecsam". In most other place names the h seems to disappear
as well. Thus Birmingum, Cheltenum, Balum, Cozum etc.
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