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?
My mum would have said it's Charlton with a 't'. Tbh, I join in with the chants and feel a bit awkward dropping the 't'. I blame my mum.
Perhaps it should be 'Charl'on Ath-u-letic' a la Jimmy Seed?
As an exiled Northerner I find it damn high impossible to drop the other t. No problems with other letters but I do struggle with this London thing of putting so many vowels in a row. Char ( as in a cup of) - ton really is the best I can do. Can I get speech therapy on the NHS?
trying to pronounce the way I say this by slowly saying it to myself. Which of course is what most people on this thread have been trying to do. Problem is I'm on a packed train coming into Victoria.
If someone's just asked me who I support: "Charlton Athletic, we're in League One...?" (code switch to posh-ish accent) (include qualification of league so someone can excuse themselves for not having heard of us)
If I'm talking about the Club to someone who knows who we are: "Chawhl-nn." (Chawhl, as if saying Charl Schwartzel, sort of, with no real 'r' sound). Then there's no t or o - straight to the N sound. SE London accent also becomes more pronounced, as I am proud of my roots.
As above, but when not in London: "Chwln" (SE London accent so pronounced it sounds like parody, but I do it as a subconscious defence and pride in where I'm from)
If I'm talking to my CEO: "Chaah-lton" (so I sound even posher)
If I'm speaking to someone I'm going to a game with: "the footie"
If I'm mocking the regime: "De Kloob/The Belgians/Those wankers in charge"
If we've just scored: "YOU REDS!", as in "GWAAANNNN YOU REDS!" (also: Top Lads, the boys, etc)
If we've just conceded: "You bunch of/you f'in c's/" and a variety of other words I won't repeat here in full before the watershed
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?
My mum would have said it's Charlton with a 't'. Tbh, I join in with the chants and feel a bit awkward dropping the 't'. I blame my mum.
Perhaps it should be 'Charl'on Ath-u-letic' a la Jimmy Seed?
Love that film clip, has a touch of the Captain Mainwaring about it, somehow in its delivery. I half expected him to say, " Remember chaps, particularly you Jones, this right wing fellow doesn't like it up him!"
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Affletic.
Perhaps it should be 'Charl'on Ath-u-letic' a la Jimmy Seed?
Ahh Fuck em I'm CHARL ERN!
If I'm talking about the Club to someone who knows who we are: "Chawhl-nn." (Chawhl, as if saying Charl Schwartzel, sort of, with no real 'r' sound). Then there's no t or o - straight to the N sound. SE London accent also becomes more pronounced, as I am proud of my roots.
As above, but when not in London: "Chwln" (SE London accent so pronounced it sounds like parody, but I do it as a subconscious defence and pride in where I'm from)
If I'm talking to my CEO: "Chaah-lton" (so I sound even posher)
If I'm speaking to someone I'm going to a game with: "the footie"
If I'm mocking the regime: "De Kloob/The Belgians/Those wankers in charge"
If we've just scored: "YOU REDS!", as in "GWAAANNNN YOU REDS!" (also: Top Lads, the boys, etc)
If we've just conceded: "You bunch of/you f'in c's/" and a variety of other words I won't repeat here in full before the watershed