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Road pronunciation - Rugby Road?

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  • 27-01-2019 1:21pm
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    bazermc
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    Rugby Road in Ranelagh!

    Is it pronounced Rugby like the game or like Ruby?


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    VeryTerry
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    bazermc wrote: »
    Rugby Road in Ranelagh!

    Is it pronounced Rugby like the game or like Ruby?

    Knowing the Ranelagh natives they are prounouncing it wrong anyway.


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    Marcusm
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    Is this a Cowper/Cooper thing?


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    spurious
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    Renlah.


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    Victor
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    bazermc wrote: »
    Rugby Road in Ranelagh!

    Is it pronounced Rugby like the game or like Ruby?
    Like the town Rugby, for which the football game is named.

    Some other names used in the former Rathmines & Rathgar Township:
    Dartmouth
    Richmond
    Oxford
    Cambridge
    York
    Leicester
    Kenilworth
    Grosvenor
    Chelmsford
    Windsor
    Brighton
    Orwell


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