Speaking of pronunciation

[Conor Dary]

(he really did say Notnim.)

I believe it....part of it might be Nottingham was first known as Snot's Ham....it could be a local dialect that never evolved much on place names..... if you look in the OED of English Place Names a lot of weird pronunciations correspond well with old spellings from centuries ago.

By the way did you ever get to the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem near Nottingham Castle...supposedly the oldest pub in England from 1189...great place..

[jc203]

When I started 5th grade eons ago, a new kid named Leo announced that he was from a place back east that baffled the rest of us.
He version of the city's name was "Woos-tah"

[Atticus]

By the way did you ever get to the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem near Nottingham Castle...supposedly the oldest pub in England from 1189...great place..

No, but made me look it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Trip_to_Jerusalem

I did seek this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tabard

not realizing it was long gone, except for this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ta...Tabard_Inn.jpg

[user4]

I always wondered where the average crusader would have gone to freshen the palate with a balmy stale pint of ale after returning from Byzantium !

[Atticus]

Nottingham was first known as Snot's Ham...

Thought you were kidding! Not so much.

Old English as ‘homestead (ham) of Snot’s people’.

Must have been running folks . . . [rimshot].

[KevinR]

We drove there in 2007, just to see Sherwood Forest (almost all gone), stopped in a local gas (sorry . . . petrol) station, asked the attendant about it and

He said, 'Go back towards Notnim.'
I said, 'Nottingham?"
He looked at me funny, nodded and said, 'Notnim.'
That is my entire experience with the name in the UK. That may have been just his way of saying it, but that is indeed what he said.

Not unlike going to Edinburgh and having all the natives calling it,

Ed'n'bura

Where'd the 'g' go?!

My guess is that the "g" went to the same place that we get the "a" from in Louisville (Louavul).

[Conor Dary]

Thought you were kidding! Not so much..

Ye of little faith...

[Big Tusk]

What I've heard there is neither of those two, but a combination of them: NAW-lins.

my ear picks up nawlins (no emphasis)

I've never heard a fellow resident of New Orleans pronounce it like either of those, nor have I heard New Or-leens.

It's either New Oar-lenz (last syllable similar to lens, as in optics) or New Oa-lee-unz (first syllable like "oar" as in a type of tool used to propel a boat, the "r" is frequently dropped). The latter is more common among the upper class who have been in the city for generations.

[Atticus]

My guess is that the "g" went to the same place that we get the "a" from in Louisville (Louavul).

I visited Pittsbura in Pennsylvania once.

[gm]

How would one pronounce Raymond Luxury Yacht?