There’s no ‘T’ in Charlton

aliwibble

AFKABartram said:

So reading this thread I’m really not sure what I say but it’s either 

Charl-un
Chawl-un
Charl-hun 

I'm more Charw'un I think. Definitely no t, but difficult to describe what's going on with the L.

Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch

The 'Cheltenham?' response is a double-whammy... 1. It reconfirms I've got a lousy accent 2. The football conversation that's about to happen will be lousy, exit asap.

SoundAsa£

queensland_addick said:

I pronounce it "Crapton", "Crapton Pathetic" or at least I have over the past 19 years!

Zzzzzzzz!

IanJRO

Strange thread this, it’s pronounced Charlton

SoundAsa£

seth plum said:

Practice your diction folks.

The wicked cricket critic’s gig whip snapped.
Irish wristwatch, Irish wristwatch, Irish wristwatch.
The twenty to two train to Tooting tootled tunefully as it tore through the tunnel. 

Choose stew Tuesday, Tuesday is stew day.
….and differentiate ‘foul’ ‘fail’ ‘foal’ ‘feel’ ‘Sal’ ‘sail’ ‘soul’ ‘mail’ ‘mall’ ‘mole’.

Who slit the sheets, the sheets are slit.
Whoever slit the sheets is a good sheet sliter.

To be repeated several times as fast as possible. 😁

eastterrace6168

Jim Davison called us Charl'on Nil...🤷‍♂️

jimmymelrose

Here are all the two syllable words beginning with ’ch’:

 chairman challenge chamber changing channel chapter charger charlie charlotte charter cherry chicken childhood children chile china chosen chronic

Seeing as the closest to Charlton in the English language is ’Charlotte’ maybe we should be asking if we should be pronouncing the ’ch’ in a French manner too. 😉

Joking aside, there a very tenuous link between spelling and pronunciation in English. Regarding place names I think it’s fair to say that the ’correct’ pronunciation is how the locals pronounce it.

After all, the West Ham in East London is not pronounced the same as the West Ham in East Sussex. Neither are all the copies of English place names in other parts of the world. 

If the majority of people in Charlton pronounce the ’T’ either softly or silently then that is the ’correct’ pronunciation. 

seth plum

Back in the day we were all aware of the star of The Ten Commandments and two footballing World Cup winners.
We didn’t say Chown Heston, or Bobby and Jackie Chown.

Steven81

I pronounce it more Chulton ,Charlun depending on how pissed I am at the game.

Steven81

seth plum said:

Back in the day we were all aware of the star of The Ten Commandments and two footballing World Cup winners.
We didn’t say Chown Heston, or Bobby and Jackie Chown.

He Was good in meals on wheels.

ME14addick

I pronounce it as Charlt'n, I do say the 't'.