UK Supercharger pronunciation guide?

[Medved_77]

I read somewhere that Tess-la is the Serbian pronunciation, which seems to be confirmed by Wikipedia.

Correct. Tess-La is the correct pronunciation for Nikola Tesla. I asked when I visited his home in Belgrade.

As an aside, my Slovak in-laws have owned Tesla electronics for well over 30 years. Musk's legal team were in talks with the (now) Czech electronics company in the early days and came to a 'coexistence' agreement about joint use of the name.

Tesla (Czechoslovak company) - Wikipedia.

 

[Mr H]

Its Why-Bos-Ton. Its about 5 mins down the road from me. I didnt know this existed until i saw this thread.

You didn't know Wyboston existed, you need to get out more

 

[TJ63]

I read somewhere that Tess-la is the Serbian pronunciation, which seems to be confirmed by Wikipedia.

It's also how Americans pronounce it, and most of them seem to get quite annoyed with Tezz-la. Elon uses Tezz-la.

Interestingly, Americans also pronounce Nissan as Neeessan....

 

[LongRanger]

I’m looking forward to the Eglwyswrw supercharger coming online just up the road from me.

Egg-uls-oo-roo

Or they could put it a Mynachlog-ddu

Min-ack-log-thee

 

[MrBadger]

I read somewhere that Tess-la is the Serbian pronunciation, which seems to be confirmed by Wikipedia.

Good, thats how I pronounce it.

I've been self conscious on pronouncing things ever since mis-pronouncing in a class the Latin of the white stemmed bramble exactly as I had been learning the spelling and not the correct pronunciation "I must pronounce this correctly, I must pronounce this correctly, 'rubus *************', oh *sugar*, did I really just say that out loud to the whole class"

 

[Neilman]

Doesn't entirely matter how the locals pronounce their place-names, unless you're already close and asking a local resident, what really matters is what Americanised pronunciation is required to get the Tesla destination voice recognition to correctly identify the charger you desperately need to get to

 

[Fraank]

You might find these links handy:

How to pronounce Wyboston. I understand that Tesla are planning Superchargers at Builth Wells and Aberystwyth this year too.

Tesla chickened out from installing at somewhere a little more Welsh I see.

-beep- "Navigate to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"

 

[HKP_Tom]

I was originally from Maidstone, locals call it ‘Mate-sun’ or ‘Maid-stn’, I’m now in Chelmsford which locals seem to call ‘Chelmps-fud’...

 

[LongRanger]

Albaroney. One for American pub fans ?

 

[Chrisgillett]

Gordano.
Sounds like it should be Italian (gor-DAH-no) but could be GOR-dano? Gor-day-no?

No one actually answered! It’s gore-day-no, for the locals at least.

 

[cezdoc]

Now the Wyboston, UK Supercharger is officially open, can I ask how it's pronounced? I'm not local and don't have any references to compare it with but as a native Brit I am wary enough to know that it could be anything from "Why-BOS-ton" to "WIB-stun" via "WIB-uzzun"...

Most of the UK site names are straight forward but while I'm here, can I check a couple more?:
Michaelwood - "MIKKLE-wood" (a bit like Michaelmas)?
Amesbury - "AHHms-burrie" (rather than AIMs-burrie)?

The other possible gotcha's that will be familiar to Brits but might catch out visitors:
Edinburgh, North Greenwich, Warwick

Any others?

Thanks for the informative answers (and entertaining chat), now I have

Wyboston - "Why-Bos-Ton"
Michaelwood - "MIKKLE-wood"
Amesbury - "AIMs-burrie" (could be live within days?)
Gordano - "Gore-Day-No" (I don't know if I've ever said it out loud but I had this wrong in my head!)

Plus this one which was familiar to me, a bit like not emphasising "ham" for somewhere like "Wokingham":
Maidstone - "Maid-stn"

I'm going to add Reading to the gotcha list for visitors:
Edinburgh, North Greenwich, Reading, Warwick

So I can set off on my travels confident I won't be committing a faux pas ("forks pass"?) should I engage in socially distanced conversation. All I need now is the CCS retrofit to make some of the above appear on my car's Nav map!

 

[Neilio]

Thanks for the informative answers (and entertaining chat), now I have

Wyboston - "Why-Bos-Ton"
Michaelwood - "MIKKLE-wood"
Amesbury - "AIMs-burrie" (could be live within days?)
Gordano - "Gore-Day-No" (I don't know if I've ever said it out loud but I had this wrong in my head!)

Plus this one which was familiar to me, a bit like not emphasising "ham" for somewhere like "Wokingham":
Maidstone - "Maid-stn"

I'm going to add Reading to the gotcha list for visitors:
Edinburgh, North Greenwich, Reading, Warwick

So I can set off on my travels confident I won't be committing a faux pas ("forks pass"?) should I engage in socially distanced conversation. All I need now is the CCS retrofit to make some of the above appear on my car's Nav map!

Just wait until (if?) Lie-sez-starr Forest east goes live.

 

[Chrisgillett]

I heard Leigh delamere called “ley de la mare” the other day. I’ve always said “lee dah lah mere”.

 

[Dilly]

Norfolk is pronounced I-am-lost
If plural; we-are-lost)

 

[Neilio]

Apparently there's a supercharge in Cribbs Causeway that is the "Brizzle" supercharger.

 

[Adopado]

Its Why-Bos-Ton. Its about 5 mins down the road from me. I didnt know this existed until i saw this thread.

I'm guessing "wye-bos-ton" might be a more accurate pronunciation description... some areas of the country will pronounce "why" differently to "wye" ... and you don't want a stray "h" sound to creep in where it's not wanted!

 

[Glan gluaisne]

Apparently there's a supercharge in Cribbs Causeway that is the "Brizzle" supercharger.

There's several there now, at the Bristol SC, rather than at the Cribbs Causeway showroom. Last time I was there (more fixes under warranty, broken ball joints this time) there was a chap fixing one that had (apparently) "blown a fuse".

 

[andrewm86]

Trentham - Trent-um. Emphasise the Trent, pretend the H isn't there. Nothing like Grantham.

 

[Neilio]

I heard Leigh delamere called “ley de la mare” the other day. I’ve always said “lee dah lah mere”.

I always thought it was Lee del ah mere?

Wildly OTT but is anyone watching the sky Atlantic drama "you honor"? There is a lawyer in it called Lee Delamere. Obviously inspired by M4 service stations.

 

[Chuq]

I'm not a local and I learned how to pronounce all your places names quite easily after watching this easy guide: