Buckingham Palace

[nq:1]Is it true that American pronounce the 'h' in 'Buckingham' and Brits don't?[/nq]
Dear Prune,
Some do, some don't.
Thanks for writing.

Michael West

[nq:1]Is it true that American pronounce the 'h' in 'Buckingham' and Brits don't?[/nq]
Most definitely.
I've never heard a fellow brit pronounce the 'h'.
It would probably sound american if they did.
I used to live in Buckinghamshire, near the little town of Buckingham; that was the same.

[nq:2]Is it true that American pronounce the 'h' in 'Buckingham' and Brits don't?[/nq]
[nq:1]Most definitely. I've never heard a fellow brit pronounce the 'h'. It would probably sound american if they did. I used to live in Buckinghamshire, near the little town of Buckingham;that was the same.[/nq]
This must be how polls and surveys come up with such deceptive results. It was a two-part qu

[nq:1]Is it true that American pronounce the 'h' in 'Buckingham' and Brits don't?[/nq]
I think the main difference and the one which is lampooned in the UK has less to do with pronouncing the "h" than it does with the relative stress/clarity given to the final syllable.

I can imagine a BrE dialect which retained a hint of "h" in "Buckingham", but not one in which the "ham" syllable so

I can just about imagine someone with an ultra-arch sub-Miss Jean Brodie Aird'nbra eccairnt pronouncing the "h", but "-ham" is a very common placename suffix, to be found in most parts of Britain from Wrexham (Wales) and Dagenham (Essex) , via Nottingham (East Midlands) and Oldham (North West) to Durham (North East) and in all of them I've only heard it pronounced (@m).
Incidentally, I

[nq:1]On 21 May 2004, prune wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Is it true that American pronounce the 'h' in 'Buckingham' and Brits don't?[/nq]
[nq:1]I think the main difference and the one which is lampooned in the UK has less to do ... a hint of "h" in "Buckingham", but not one in which the "ham" syllable sounded like a chunk of pork.[/nq]
I don't know if the porky pronunciation is a regional thing, b

[nq:1]I can just about imagine someone with an ultra-arch sub-Miss Jean Brodie Aird'nbra eccairnt pronouncing the "h", but "-ham" is ... and Oldham (North West) to Durham (North East) and in all of them I've only heard it pronounced (@m).[/nq]
My stepfather's name was "Durham", and it was
not at all unusual to hear clerks and tradespeople (in Illinois) pronounce the second syllable

[nq:1]Is it true that American pronounce the 'h' in 'Buckingham' and Brits don't?[/nq]
This Americanism derives from the way we USAns pronounce our own version of Buck House:
"wHite House"

Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.home.comcast.net/

[nq:1]Incidentally, I can't remember ever having heard an American pronounce Hillary Clinton's maiden name is it generally ('rA.dh&m) or ('rA.d@m)?[/nq]
"RODum," for this ASCII-impaired American. She still uses it, by the way, so it's not just her maiden name: http://clinton.senate.gov

[nq:2]I can just about imagine someone with an ultra-arch sub-Miss ... in all of them I've only heard it pronounced (@m).[/nq]
[nq:1]My stepfather's name was "Durham", and it was not at all unusual to hear clerks and tradespeople (in Illinois) pronounce ... education than "class"). They're pronouncing it the way it's spelled because they've never learned about the exceptions to the "rul