• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      See also English place names.

      “Scrumbwickshireford has been continuously inhabited since the reign of Æthelred the Unready, and people could not be arsed at a rate of one letter per generation. Hence its modern pronunciation: Sheffield.”