# What is it with you Yanks?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-you-yanks/54870
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 17, 2001, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-you-yanks/54870 "2001-02-17T11:19:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-you-yanks/54870/81 "2001-02-20T18:31:59Z")
Hey Nimue! I understand all you explanations so far but why do the Brits pronounce “Featheringstonhaugh” as “Fanshaw”
I’ve kinda been wondereing that since reading it in one of the books…
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### Author:  [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-you-yanks/54870/82 "2001-02-20T19:18:41Z")
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> \*Originally posted by xploder \*
> **why do the Brits pronounce “Featheringstonhaugh” as "Fanshaw"**
Christ! I haven’t even heard of that one, **xploder**. Just off the top of my head I would offer that perhaps in order to shorten such a cumbersome name they blend the sounds together. But never having heard of the place, I don’t know anything about how its name is used in speech. E.g. is it consistently said this way or only informally as a nickname; does everyone say it like this or only the locals, etc.?
There are some Britons reading the thread, perhaps one of them will know.
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