Are we the most misspelt area in the country

Jedi boro

Jedi boro

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Be that tee side or the dreaded middles borough ( don’t want to type the words in full as don’t want them in my phone vocabulary) as you never see

Tineside or the tames

Why are we so miss spelt and I include central govt in this as well it’s not just tabloid media.
 
Middles BORO
Miggulsburra
Teas hide
Teside
Its mixing up the name of the town with the nickname of the team.
Should teach geography properly in schools and thrash them to within an inch of their lives if they get it wrong!
 
Watched “Tipping point” last week and the question was “On what river does Gateshead stand on”? The girl said “The Thames”! The bloke said something like I always get mixed up between Gateshead and Middlesbrough. “I think it could be the Humber”!
 
sambaDTR said:
Watched “Tipping point” last week and the question was “On what river does Gateshead stand on”? The girl said “The Thames”! The bloke said something like I always get mixed up between Gateshead and Middlesbrough. “I think it could be the Humber.
Surely its the Esk?
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I always remember that awful tv drama back in the day, think it was called 'Steel River Blues' or something. There was this opening scene and a bloke was hitch hiking and his sign read 'Middlesborough'!!!

Now, you'd think that setting a programme on Teesside, the makers would at least know how to spell the major town!!
 
You could excuse ITV presenters from misspelling the name of the town or area of course but the BBC -- where you need every dong in the book to get a job there -- there's no excuse-- unless that is they do it on purpose.
 
Or Llanddewi Brefi!

Not sure if it's a real town but every time I saw it on Little Britain, it always reminded me of the above!
 
What I find unreal is someone could be selling a Middlesbrough scarf, spelt correctly then when describing it they spell Middlesbrough wrong, how's that, just look at the scarf
Saying that people from Hartlepool can't even pronounce it correctly, they say it as if it has 2 o's in the name
 
Michael_Vronsky said:
I always remember that awful tv drama back in the day, think it was called 'Steel River Blues' or something. There was this opening scene and a bloke was hitch hiking and his sign read 'Middlesborough'!!!

Now, you'd think that setting a programme on Teesside, the makers would at least know how to spell the major town!!
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Or it might have been an ironic acknowledgement of the very subject being discussed here.
 
WoodallServices said:
I thought it was called Middlesbrough because they spelt it wrong when they submitted the name in the first place!
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I don't think it is true. The town charter was granted in 1853. There are documents with the brough spelling that predate that, census records and the like. I've also found some incorrect spellings from the 19th century but these tend to be non local documents. So people have been spelling the name wrong for 200 odd years.

The one that is wrong is guisborough, which used to be Gisborough. Don't know where the u comes from.

Come to think of it maybes they're trying to be less french. Napoleon and all that. French stuff in 1820. Not cool.
 
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