Ah, Nipper!

[tomparryharry]

Ah Nipper, 'tis Radio 4 on the 'Ome service....

 

Readers (listeners) will doubtless know about the locality of Ambridge, and conurbations such as Felpersham & Borchester.

 

Borchester? Hmm....

 

Now then , my lovelies, we're not a million miles from Worcester, which is pronounced 'Wooster'.  if that's the case, 'ow come Borchester  'asn't bin' shortened to 'Boshter?

 

Jimmy from Clitheroe.

[The Johnster]

Wouldn’t it be ‘Booster’, Jimmy?

[Steamport Southport]

Jimmy Clitheroe? 

 

Might have been alright on stage and on the wireless.

 

But I always thought he was a bit creepy in film footage as he was far too old and looked it.

 

 

[eastwestdivide]

Wouldn't it need to be Borcester (withouth the -h-) to have the pronuncation like that?

 

 - speaking as an ex-inhabitant of Rochester, pronounced with a -ch-, unlike Toaster and Roaster (Towcester and Rocester)

 

Still there's no R in Bath, and no F in logic when it comes to English place names.

[Steamport Southport]

 

More pointing out the name pronunciation than anything else.

Edited October 13, 2022 by Steamport Southport

[The Johnster]

11 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

Jimmy Clitheroe? 

 

Might have been alright on stage and on the wireless.

 

But I always thought he was a bit creepy in film footage as he was far too old and looked it.

 

 

Apparently a nasty piece of work if you crossed him, and like many showbiz types of that era, that came out of the music hall tradition, an inveterate miser.