What's the origin of the word?
And can you please use it in a sentence?
It's a place, and apparently the bloke was named after that place.Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge is a recurring character in P.G. Wodehouse novels.
That is interesting. Must have been quite a character.It's a place, and apparently the bloke was named after that place.
Lee?. How would non-UK readers say "Ely"?
Close. It's (correctly) Ee-lee, but it the local accent it's usually rendered as "ear-lee".Lee?
Oh, how did an 'ear' got into the mix?Close. It's (correctly) Ee-lee, but it the local accent it's usually rendered as "ear-lee".
Buggered if I know!Oh, how did an 'ear' got into the mix?
As a fen dweller Brumbers are you able to confirm whether your kind are prone to deformed noses, or was that another of my Uncle Stan's silly stories?Buggered if I know!
The fen accent is one of those dialects that lengthens and smooths certain vowel sounds.
Hard "e" and "ah" sounds both come out as something close to "ear". So in broad fen words like "beer" & "bear", and "year" and "yeah" are effectively indistinguishable to outsiders.
Never heard that one, to be fair, but I am more than averagely gifted in the probocsis department, so maybe?As a fen dweller Brumbers are you able to confirm whether your kind are prone to deformed noses, or was that another of my Uncle Stan's silly stories?