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How do you pronounce Charlton?

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,045
    _MrDick said:

    Every Sarf Lunderner knows it's chowtern

    But as it's in east London it's Charl'un
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    Chull errn
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,723
    edited July 2017
    Chartun
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Charlton as in Bolton, not Charlton as in Carlton.
  • Pringle
    Pringle Posts: 464
    Danny Baker always says "Chowwten". It's annoying.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,691
    Callumcafc said:

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

    I agree that 'Men of Kent' pronounce the 't'. However, I think you'll find that (the superior) 'Kentish men' do not. With Kentish men the T is silent and the 'o' imperceptible. Thus ... the correct pronunciation is actually Charlunnnn.

    (When does the season start?)
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,681
    edited July 2017
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Cheltenham according to some people when they ask who I support.

    This. In a queue for a chair lift at a French ski resort in the mid 90's I had my red bobble hat on with the badge facing backwards (so passing skiers can see it as they approach) and someone asked "who's that you support" & obviously didn't hear me that well, as he replied with "Cheltenham ? - I didn't think they had a team". I couldn't be bothered to try to explain.......
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,978
    edited July 2017
    When I'm asked who my team is, nowadays I start my answer with a sigh.
    It's only having a few Coventry fans in the office that makes it more bearable.
  • AdTheAddicK
    AdTheAddicK Posts: 3,379
    Yep I get Cheltenham a lot too
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    _MrDick said:

    Every Sarf Lunderner knows it's chowtern

    This is the closest to the way I say it I think.....

    Maybe Chowl-ton

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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,311
    Chowl'un
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Maybe not entirely correct but amusing....

    https://youtu.be/vESWENN0oE0

    The first one is fantastic
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    Norf Career
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    you can ask Google and it will tell you, in audio
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,237
    "South London Reds"
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Syd Cup
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,420
    Charl-tun
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    CHARL'UN
  • Wrinkley_Addick_SE9
    Wrinkley_Addick_SE9 Posts: 62
    Lower Blackheath
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,815
    Wrinkley_Addick_SE9 said:

    Lower Blackheath

    That would be Greenwich.

    (Pronounced Griin'ich)

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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,373
    Charl'un.

    Unless I'm talking to someone who doesn't know football and I pronounce it perfectly, with a question mark at the end to see if they've actually heard of them.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,059
    Crusty54 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.
    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.
    I think we should debate, at length, whether Charlton is in Kent or not, doubt that has ever been covered on here.

    Part of that debate should focus on whether or not Kentish Charlton fans are glory hunters as Charlton are significantly more successful than any team from Kent?
  • MountsfieldPark
    MountsfieldPark Posts: 2,074
    edited July 2017
    But none of you has explained how you pronounce the "nil" part of it.
  • Danepak
    Danepak Posts: 1,630
    I've heard a lot of Scandinavians pronouncing it 'Tiarl-Ton'
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,812
    Choal'un Athle'ic.

    Historically part of Kent, now definitely part of London.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,128
    Like Bolton
  • twiggyaddick
    twiggyaddick Posts: 1,565
    North sint truiden
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,586
    SIDDARN
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,961
    Chowl'ern in the Burra of Grinnidge.


    It was always Grinnidge when I was younger in the 60s and 70s - the only people who called it Grenitch were those who'd never lived there.

    Then the recorded train announcements at Charing X station started calling it Grenitch.
    And Grenitch was what the monied newcomers started calling it as the place became gentrified.

    I expect it's only a matter of time before Woolidge becomes Woolitch.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    edited July 2017
    There is no F in Athletic.

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