The Daily Mail in disguise .......actually, isn't the Evening sub-Standard owned by the Daily Malice?
Not any more - they sold a controlling stake in it to Alexander Lebedev, but they retain something like a 25% stake and the paper is still published from their offices and printed on their presses at Harmswoth Quay.
Speaking of their property section and their lack of a grip on reality an ex-uni friend of mine and his wife were interviewed about the problems they had finding somewhere suitable to live in south-west London. Both were doctors with a combined net income at the time of well into six figures. The poor loves couldn't find the right house in the £500k bracket in Wimbledon.
The correct local pronunciation is 'Grinidge', which is how most of us there said it in the 60s & 70s. 'Grenidge gradually crept in as the area gentrified
The correct local pronunciation is 'Grinidge', which is how most of us there said it in the 60s & 70s. 'Grenidge gradually crept in as the area gentrified
Don't get me started - irritates me when Greenwich is pronounced as 'Grinich' as opposed to 'Grenich' .
You're just posh.
Yes, you're right, being bought up on the Cherry Orchard Estate in the 1950s does elevate one's position in Society! Mind you we weren't as posh as our neighbours who had the Corona man deliver. I do say scon as opposed to scown, not sure what the correct SE7 pronunciation is on that tasty food stuff?
Don't get me started - irritates me when Greenwich is pronounced as 'Grinich' as opposed to 'Grenich' .
You're just posh.
Yes, you're right, being bought up on the Cherry Orchard Estate in the 1950s does elevate one's position in Society! Mind you we weren't as posh as our neighbours who had the Corona man deliver. I do say scon as opposed to scown, not sure what the correct SE7 pronunciation is on that tasty food stuff?
Scone pronounced 'scon' rhyming with 'gone' is the correct way of saying it. Not sure what the typical SE7 pronounciation would be - probably 'cake'.
The correct local pronunciation is 'Grinidge', which is how most of us there said it in the 60s & 70s. 'Grenidge gradually crept in as the area gentrified
Spot on.
'Grinidge' (and 'Woolidge') is how it was always pronounced by the locals when I lived there and nearby. All the elderly folks who'd lived there all their lives, always pronounced it 'Grinidge'.
It was always pronounced 'Grinidge' by train announcers, until the then new recorded train announcements were introduced at Charing Cross station in the early 70s. As RedLaneRed says, the 'Grenitch' thing only came about as outsiders with money moved in, on the gentrification bandwagon.
It's a relatively recent thing, aping Greenwich (Grenitch) Village in New York.
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It's a rubbish rag and would agree the property part is a joke but it's free so you take your choice
Not your average Londoner. Infuriating.
How very middle-class sc.
I was in London this week and saw that same article, I thought it was some kind of spoof at first but soon realized it was not.
The ES seems targeted solely at Tarquin and Jemima rather than the real world.
Not any more - they sold a controlling stake in it to Alexander Lebedev, but they retain something like a 25% stake and the paper is still published from their offices and printed on their presses at Harmswoth Quay.
Speaking of their property section and their lack of a grip on reality an ex-uni friend of mine and his wife were interviewed about the problems they had finding somewhere suitable to live in south-west London. Both were doctors with a combined net income at the time of well into six figures. The poor loves couldn't find the right house in the £500k bracket in Wimbledon.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hoax-bingo-hall-bomb-threat-leads-to-jail-for-drunk-man-claiming-to-be-islam-a3270486.html
It's like calling Battersea, Batt-Ar_sea-ah!
and chowl-un
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Ell-um
Wool-itch
'Grinidge' (and 'Woolidge') is how it was always pronounced by the locals when I lived there and nearby.
All the elderly folks who'd lived there all their lives, always pronounced it 'Grinidge'.
It was always pronounced 'Grinidge' by train announcers, until the then new recorded train announcements were introduced at Charing Cross station in the early 70s.
As RedLaneRed says, the 'Grenitch' thing only came about as outsiders with money moved in, on the gentrification bandwagon.
It's a relatively recent thing, aping Greenwich (Grenitch) Village in New York.
And Wool-idge.
Okay. I shouldn't bite ....... lol