#85

giggsguggy gigglgg

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#86

Bas Vegas just refers to the festival leisure park IMO

#87

Haha what didn’t she like that first?

#88

Just remembered I tried to popularise G minor for Godalming and G major for Guildford but it never caught on

#89

She was living in someone’s spare room just behind the college in Cardonald and didn’t really get to see much of the city aside from weekends when I came through from Livingston. I think it was my enthusiasm that decided we were moving here (and her being offered a permanent job.)

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#90

Bitchin’ - Hitchin
Thievenage - Stevenage
Any place with ‘Park’ in the name is referred to as 'Bark’
The Swade - Biggleswade

#91

Not mine, but Heywood is commonly know to all as Monkey Town, which I find funny.

#92

Me and my bf have a few based on how my sat nav pronounces them -
Curventre’?
High weir-combe

#93

I’ve heard heywood called a lot of things, but monkeytown ain’t one

#94

You’re moving in uninformed circles then. It’s on the first paragraph of its wikipedia page and everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heywood,_Greater_Manchester you don’t get more official than that.

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#95

:smiley: amazing

#96

I’ve heard posh people IRL say “PONJE” when referring to Penge

#97

The two local train stations have become (courtesy of my GF)

Purley Oaks = Ploaks
Sanderstead = Sandersplatz

#98

:astonished::astonished::astonished:

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#99

recently topped this with Tozza Cozza Rozza. (Tottenham Court Road, obviously.)

#101

Nigel - Tufnell Park
Bum-town - Mudchute
Chi-town - Chingford

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#102

Mordor - North Greenwich

#103

TCR for me Clive, which has the bonus of making me nostalgic for the toys of my childhood.

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#104

Smelly Oak = Selly Oak

#105

Keynsham = K-Town / The Sham
Cardiff = The Diff
Bristol = Brizz
Brislington = Brizz (confusingly)
St Werburghs = Wurly Burgs
Cotham = Cotham City (while singing the song “Gotham Cityyyyy!”)
Newport = The Port
Bedminster = Bedmo

More of these than I thought.