Co. Name on van "Luga Baruga"

Locals who are posh from the home countries will call it Shrews Bury My Norfolk grandafather kept his car in the Garridge, stress on the first syllable, my snobby grandmother called it a 'garr - arge', stress on the second, as if it were French

I learnt to switch depending on whom I was addressing..

Urquhart= Ercott.

'Y' is a perfectly respectable brythonic vowel.

Ysabel Llynn Gladys.

The name was originally spelt with a 'yogh' (ʒ), not a 'zed', but they look very similar when written, and (as you say about 'y'), was confused with 'g'.

Automotive Engineering.

We have a Garboldisham, pronounced 'Garbulshem'.

Yes. "Mingis" like "Fingun" above. Caused by confusion with the obsolete letter "yogh".

Wikipedia suggests that Foggyloan is a local nickname rather that a universally-accepted pronunciation - rather like Skelmersdale near Wakefield is known locally as "Shat".

"Aberchirder - Foggyloan" is about as bizarre as "Raymond Luxury Yacht (pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove)" :-)

Dorset Street in Dublin is pronounced with the emphasis on the last vowel instead of the first. (Dor-SET) I've heard that old people in the county still pronounce it that way

Loughborough was a damned decent technical college that got turned into a low grade University. same as Hatfield Poly - one of the finest technical educations one could get.

Now Hertford Uni or summat, specialising in applied Marxism and Racism

As in Ye Olde Tea shoppe, where the Y is in fact a Thorn, and was never pronounced as a Y.

"in Old English, a letter called thorn (þ) represented the th sound (as in that) in Modern English. In the Latin alphabet, the Y was the symbol that most closely resembled the character that represented thorn. So, thorn was dropped and Y took its place. "

Indeed. At Hatfield in the early '60's it was a stretch for my brain! At the time, it was rumoured that Chelsea? university was moving out to the country and good lecturers joined Hatfield in anticipation.

I scraped a double OND in electrical engineering/mechanical engineering followed by an HNC electrical. Sadly my company decided I was needed in their new electronics dept. so I had to start over:-(

Indeed. You're absolutely correct. As they say, "The best laid alternative facts of mice and men gang aft agley".

Possibly Imperial College or Battersea Tech (which did move and became Surrey Uni). There was no Chelsea Uni

They were busy putting up new buildings at Imperial in the early 60s so no chance of that moving.

SWMBO was a student there in early 60s. Possible thoughts of moving to the site where the field station was located (near Ascot).

Yes.

Yeah, Silwood Park. Perhaps just her department, though. Silwood would have needed lots more building to accommodate all of Imperial. But the building was going on in South Ken.

Whatever grade it was, it gave me a good engineering education between