> English place names and surnames have wonderful idiosyncracies, if
> Cholmondoley is pronounced Chumley, then why isn't Bottomley pronounced
> Bumley?
There was an MP in the Australian federal parliament when I was a kid
called St John. He pronounced it Sin-j'n. He was involved in some scandal
or another.
Australians seem to call Fremantle Free-mantle. Here in NZ, the
newsreaders call it Fr'mantle.
Dave McL
Auckland New Zealand