# Up Yours Bruce Wayne. Wayne Manor ISN'T--

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**Created:** [April 19, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-yours-bruce-wayne-wayne-manor-isnt/1000513 "2024-04-19T18:07:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
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My problem was that I was mentally pronouncing “Whatley” with a short a.

And there’s hardly anything in that article that could rule out any given home being “stately”. They’re from the 16th century, unless they’re newer. They’re in the neo-classical style, unless they’re some other style. The family didn’t actually live there most of the time, unless they did. I guess that a house could fail to be stately by having insufficient grandeur, but Wayne Manor definitely qualifies for that one.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
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My anglophile brother insists that the people who own such residences in the U.K. consistently refer to them as “listed”, and that only vulgar wannabees ever call them “stately”.

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Yeah, but “Listed Wayne Manor” would then have me thinking of a Manor located on a lane where they played Whist, and thet would never do.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-yours-bruce-wayne-wayne-manor-isnt/1000513/24 "2024-04-22T19:16:52Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I don’t recall ever hearing “Stately Wayne Manor”; if I heard it, the phrase didn’t stick.

[Here you go.](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/7c068ba2-9c7f-4c05-9d19-246f318291a6)

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