Crowd of daft berks - can't even pronounce the langwidge.
Not too sure about the Bishop - but then, he was Irish so anything's
possible.
The confusion goes back to the Great Vowel Shift.
God knows what you'd do with a place name like Leicester!
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 29/04/2007, at 1:43 PM, Moose wrote:
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> Yeah, and I'll bet you don't even pronounce it properly!
>> (That's 'Bark-shuh')
>>
> No "bark" in Berkeley, Calif., either.
>
> Although there was a pro basketball player nearby who pronounces his
> name like the Bishop, but spells it like it sounds, Barkley.
>
> Moose
>
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