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Start each word and then decide it's not worth the effort and trail off
See also English place names.
"Scrumbwickshireford has been continuously inhabited since the reign of Æthelred the Unready, and people could not be arsed at a rate of one letter per generation. Hence its modern pronunciation: Sheffield."
That can't be the original name. Scrumb wick shire ford? What's a Scrumbwick? Why both -shire and -ford endings? How did both get removed, and now it's a -field ending?
That makes no sense at all, surely?
Why not Scrumford? Or Wickford? Might as well change the name to Stavanger for all the sense Sheffield makes.
Correct, it's bullshit.
But it's illustrative of merely contrarian nonsense like Rampisham being "Ransom" or Southwark being "Suthik."
Are you saying contractions are contrarian nonsense?
You are bringing some weird takes to a gag thread in a gag community.
"Eh you got the gist, let's move on to the next word"