Let’s face it, Monty Python’s Upper Class Twit ot the Year sketch was spot on.
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Feel free to disregard those guys, the rest of us are trying our best to.
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In a thread about spelling and pronunciation, of all places, it may help some readers to know that the crew verbally known as Fanshawe-Chumleigh actually spell it Featherstonehaugh-Cholmondely. No word of a lie.
(I’m sure you probably assumed most readers would be aware of this, so I’m only posting this as a public service aid to any who may not, just in case.)
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I don’t believe there’s any thinking involved.
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Doesn’t sound at all Welsh to me, more like those guys that recite old English, though choosing the Shakespeare may have contributed to that (and yes, I know Bill is way after old English, but the dramatic source is not so far away from the stuff those old English guys get to read).
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“It’s spelled ‘Luxuy-Yacht,’ but pronounced ‘Throat-Warbler-Mangrove.’”
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