Herefordshire

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American here. Was listening to Farming Today podcast this morning and they pronounced Herefordshire "hair-uh-furd-shur", which makes sense, I guess. How do you pronounce the beef breed there? We would say "hur-furd" so I assumed that Herefordshire was the same. Learn something new every day I suppose. Here's a picture just for fun.

 

[Werzle]

Herefordians would pronounce it Herryferd or erryferd . Shire would be pronounced sher.

 

[RushesToo]

English has lots of fun and interesting ways to say words - a few for you-

Worcestershire - woost er sher
Leicester - Less ter
Marlborough - Mall brer
Gloucestershire - glos ter sher
Cholmondeley - chum ley

These are just the English ones - there are magnificent examples from Scots and Welsh too.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Whats a Black Baldy I here so much about

 

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I would not have guessed that last one!

 

[yellowbelly]

There's loads....

Belvoir ..... Beever
Threekingham ...Threckinum
Burgh-le-Marsh.Burrow-le-Marsh

..and that's just a few in ...

Lincolnshire..Linkishear

 

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Whats a Black Baldy I here so much about

That's a cross between a black Angus and a Hereford. You get black hair that the buyers seem to like, and the good traits Herefords offer (temperament, mothering ability, etc). White face and varying white feet, belly, udder, tail switch with black eye patches. Sometimes a white mane. If we could calve out all black bulls and all baldy heifers, we'd be happy!

 

[wrenbird]

Leominster, a market town in the north of the county of Herefordshire, is pronounced ‘Lemster’.
Weobley, a pretty village in the west of the county with a lot of half-timbered black and white houses is pronounced ‘Weblee’.
I live in the southwest of Herefordshire, near the Welsh border, and there is a village near us called Bagwyllydiart, pronounced locally as ‘Bag of idiots’.

 

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Whats a Black Baldy I here so much about

Here's some more examples. The splotchy ones are called brockle-faced.

 

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There's loads....

Belvoir ..... Beever
Threekingham ...Threckinum
Burgh-le-Marsh.Burrow-le-Marsh

..and that's just a few in ...

Lincolnshire..Linkishear

Lincolnshire... not to be confused with Lancashire

 

[Ysgythan]

Hen ffordd

 

[BAF]

Don't even start about Shrewsbury! Shrews Berry. Some folk say Shrows Berry. Then there's the various chavs that barstewardise it into Shoosberry and Shoosbree.

 

[Ysgythan]

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Am ooth ig

 

[Agriimark]

the king of Herefordshire is @Hfd Cattle, but goes by lots of other names. Sir, loin steak. mr thatchers and Hereford bale baron

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Happisburgh, Suffolk.
Pronounced Haze-bro
SS

 

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Don't even start about Shrewsbury! Shrews Berry. Some folk say Shrows Berry. Then there's the various chavs that barstewardise it into Shoosberry and Shoosbree.

So your barsteward must be like our barsteward? Interesting... And what's are chavs?

 

[BAF]

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Am ooth ig

Araf Ysgol!

 

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So your barsteward must be like our barsteward? Interesting... And what's are chavs?

Oh, the forum automatically changes it. I get it.

 

[BAF]

So your barsteward must be like our barsteward? Interesting... And what's are chavs?

 

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Got it.