Talk:Chester (placename element)

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In my summary for a recent edit, per this diff, I said I'd deleted the "orphan" tag - sorry, I meant to say the "unreferenced" tag. Cheers. Nortonius (talk) 13:19, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation
This might be slightly off toppic, but I'd like to challenge the last couple of statements made in the first paragraph:
 * Names ending in "-cester" are nearly always reduced to "-ster" when spoken, the exception being "Cirencester", which is pronounced in full. The pronunciation of names ending in -chester or -caster is regular.

According to List of places in England with counterintuitive pronunciations: A–L Cirencester usually is pronounced in full, but also has the traditional /'sɪsɨtər/, and, according to Cirencester, even /'sɪstər/. There is also an exception to the second rule, for Godmanchester, which, according to the same source, is pronounced /'gʌmstər/. This information is not provided in the Godmanchester article, though.--AEwaldz (talk) 12:27, 25 May 2016 (UTC)