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Old August 26th 08, 10:46 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default Who names new roads?

In message . uk, at
09:30:00 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Colin Rosenstiel
remarked:
There's a Docwra's Close next to Shepreth Station. Pronounce that!


No harder than "Gwydir".


I can have a stab at "Gwydir" (perhaps to rhyme with "why-dear", or is
it "wider"), but "Docwra" seems superficially unpronounceable as there's
a middle vowel missing; "Doc-wer-ah" maybe, or is it "doe-cur-uh"
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Roland Perry