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How do you pronounce Charlton?

Chizz
Chizz Posts: 28,342
in General Charlton
Prompted by some interesting posts by - among others - @Baldybonce and @iainment on @AFKABartram 's "Amazing Grace" thread, I wondered if anyone could produce the definitive pronunciation of "Charlton" in type.

Lots of people - northerners, usually - make an effort to pronounce it, but get it horribly wrong. I wince every time I hear "Charton" or worse still "Chorlton".

It's obviously not "Charlton", because, frankly, why would anyone ever bother with the "t"? And the ending isn't "...on", it's more "...ern", isn't it?

For me, there are two ways:

- The two-syllable version, which is "Chow'ern" (where "chow" is a bit like the word "foal").
- And the three-syllable pronunciation "Chee-ow'ern".

Anyone got any better means of expressing it, in type?
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,844
    Charl earn
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,808
    In Kent we say it proper. That includes pronouncing the t.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,059
    "Chawl-(t)un" is the correct South London pronunciation, anything else is just heretic
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,876
    Charl-lun
  • addickson
    addickson Posts: 891
    Callumcafc said:

    In Kent we say it proper. That includes pronouncing the t.

    Well "i" wouldn't make sense :wink:
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,342
    se9addick said:

    Callumcafc said:

    In Kent we say it proper. That includes pronouncing the t.

    Irrelevant, Charlton isn't in Kent, you might as well tell us how they pronounce it in Botswana.
    Might have to get the CL "this place is/isn't in Kent/London" correspondent, @Henry Irving to adjudicate on this.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,876
    Or Charton if you heard me once in the Athur Waite aged about 16 starting up the Give us a C chant and being so paranoid about forgetting to do the deeper sounding T that I left out L all together.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,371
    edited July 2017
    I say it without a T and with a bit of a W and finish it of with an UN, my son pronounces it correctly.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,252
    Chizz said:

    se9addick said:

    Callumcafc said:

    In Kent we say it proper. That includes pronouncing the t.

    Irrelevant, Charlton isn't in Kent, you might as well tell us how they pronounce it in Botswana.
    Might have to get the CL "this place is/isn't in Kent/London" correspondent, @Henry Irving to adjudicate on this.
    Brum-lee or Brom-lee

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  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,900
    MrOneLung said:

    Or Charton if you heard me once in the Athur Waite aged about 16 starting up the Give us a C chant and being so paranoid about forgetting to do the deeper sounding T that I left out L all together.

    Was that you?
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,222
    edited July 2017
    Recently, sh-it
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,052
    Charlton. Charlton. No, not Cheltenham. C-H-A... Nevermind who do you support? Liverpool? Ever been? Oh your dad has. Now kindly sod off
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,113
    edited July 2017
    Every Sarf Lunderner knows it's chowtern
  • RugbyAddick
    RugbyAddick Posts: 2,083
    This thread is the perfect example as to why the season needs to start!
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,258
    edited July 2017
    Someone bump the bonded resin drive thread please
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,584
    Cheltenham according to some people when they ask who I support.
  • Nicholas
    Nicholas Posts: 7,633
    Ffs @Nicholas what possessed you to open this thread you bloody idiot.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,371
    About 30 years ago in Thailand a local asked me what team I supported. I tried hard to make him understand Charlton but he kept saying Chelsea. Probably the worst pronunciation I've ever heard but understandable considering my accent.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,697
    Roland or cnut.

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  • SOTF
    SOTF Posts: 1,149
    Doesn't matter how I pronounce Charlton, everyone seems to think I support Chelsea.
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,866
    SurvivaloftheFittest said:

    Doesn't matter how I pronounce Charlton, everyone seems to think I support Chelsea.

    Stop going around whistling Blue is the Colour then.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,815
    Not really possible to write it down perfectly.

    Come on Charl-un where the - is not a T but your face makes the shape is would more or less of you were going to sound it, makes it a bit like a w but not really.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,654
    Chultun

    and there's no such place as Victoria way. It's Vicky way.
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,237
    Chowt-on
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,318
    Chaww ernnnn
  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,235
    edited July 2017
    se9addick said:

    Callumcafc said:

    In Kent we say it proper. That includes pronouncing the t.

    Irrelevant, Charlton isn't in Kent, you might as well tell us how they pronounce it in Botswana.
    it used to be (why Kent CCC used to play at the The Rectory Field). My parents were married at St. John's Church, Blackheath in the County of Kent.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,654
    J BLOCK said:

    Chaww ernnnn

    only if you're halfway through having a wisdom tooth removed.
  • Mr. Happy
    Mr. Happy Posts: 653
    Ciao'n
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,169
    For me, it all depends on the state of play.

    For instance, if we've just conceded a goal, I normally pronounce it, Wan Kers.

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