> The UK one is pronounced Nor-fork or Nor-f@k depending on how rhotic
>the speaker is; I suspect that's the cause of the above. :-)

No. I refuse to believe that anyone pronounces it "norfatk".

Speaking of which, there's a visiting student from the north of England in one of my classes at UMaine this semester. She's great. Has that full-dress Professor Brian Cox accent, the kind where words like "thing" have a distinctly audible second syllable. I keep wanting to try and engineer a situation in class discussion where she'll have to say "geyser" so I can find out if she pronounces it "geezer". I bet she does. :)

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