Guess how you say Kirkcambeck. 😵💫
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Jeff · 2d
Bedworth has no w. I was told off for using all the letters.
Chris Green · 2d
You're getting dangerously close to my neck of the woods, where nothing is pronounced as it's spelled!
Jymbob · 2d
I'm gonna go with "Kir-Beck" in classic English "the rest of those letters are just there for the tourists" tradition
KayeMac04 · 2d
Kick-um-back?
anlomedad · 2d
Don't say it tho. ... Please, really don't. Shout Brampton instead. Cool bikes.
Rob Spence · 2d
Is it Chumley?
Dr Joseph Graly · 2d
Having lived in Northern England seven years now, I would actually just pronounce that as written. It doesn't have any the usual glottlised medial consents, and Kirk preserves the r-sound usually. But I live to be surprised.
Sky Bloo 🏴 · 2d
Combeck?
Sophie Mac · 2d
This is going to be wrong now, but my guesses would have been Kirk-um-beck or Kirk-um-beak or Kirk-um-beach
N C Irving · 2d
Keck?
Peter Griffith · 2d
No idea
@jasonroberts3114.bsky.social · 2d
Is it similar to Loughborough, which is definitely *not* pronounced “Looga-borooga”?
Dave Garbutt · 2d
Kir-camby?
Paul Bittlestone · 2d
Brendan Keyport · 2d
"Throatwarbler Mangrove"
David Ho · 2d
I was told by a local that it’s pronounced cam-eck. 🤯
Theano · 2d
Badly?
Delia Kulukundis · 2d
Now I want to know how Kershopefoot is pronounced as well.