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Title: How do you pronounce Pishill?
Post by: jpendle on October 24, 2024, 07:55:27 PM
Just read an article in the Grauniad about this village in Oxfordshire.

Suggestions please.

John P
Title: Re: How do you pronounce Pishill?
Post by: crewearpley40 on October 24, 2024, 08:06:59 PM
Quote from: jpendle on October 24, 2024, 07:55:27 PMJust read an article in the Grauniad about this village in Oxfordshire.

Suggestions please.

John P
Apparently if you type in google theres a note and a short clip sounds like official with the P replacing O and about the nicest way of saying it
Title: Re: How do you pronounce Pishill?
Post by: chrism on October 24, 2024, 08:11:47 PM
According to the phonetic guide on Wikipedia, it's Pishle.

The parish council website says that the name comes from the old English 'peose-hyll', the hill where peas grow.