Idle question
Jun. 24th, 2009 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Can anyone think of an English place name (English, as in located in England, not America, Scotland, Wales, Ireland or Alpha Centauri) that consists of a single word with two syllables, in which the stress is on the second syllable, not the first. It came up in conversation (idle attempt to come up with an Isle of Wight version of "First we'll take Manhattan, then we'll take Berlin." It made sense at the time, honest. It grew naturally out of discussion of gleaming hidden lairs, doomsday machines and garlic) and we can't think of any at all. Scottish ones, yes, two word English ones - e.g. St Ives - yes, but that's all. Mind you, as soon as we started thinking, we could hardly think of any English place names at all, let alone ones that fitted the criteria, so that's not saying much.
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Date: 2009-06-26 08:30 am (UTC)