_Spelling._ _Pronunciation._
Wednesbury (near Birmingham) Wedgbury
Smethwick (near Birmingham) Smerrick
Cirencester Cisiter
Bothal (Northumberland) Botal
Merstham (Surrey) Maestrum
Carshalton (Surrey) Casehorton
Shepton (Somersetshire) Shepun
Ratlinghope (Salop) Ratchup
Chantlingbury (Sussex) Shankbury
Hove (Sussex) Hoove
Wavertree (near Liverpool) Wartree
St. Neots St. Nouts
Beauchamp Beechem
Belvoir Beever
Saubridgeworth Sapsworth or Sapsey
Some of your correspondents may send Scotch, Irish, and Welsh specimens;
I would suggest such be kept separate from the English. My own
experience bids me carefully abstain from sending Welsh ones. When on a
walking tour in Wales three years ago, I asked a peasant "if that road
led to _Aberga'ny_" (with conscious pride in my pronunciation); "Nay,
nay, sir, _that_ road takes to Abergavenny."