Pronunciations

[Fiona1986]

An Anglicised version of the Chateau Trotte Vieille? Google tends to throw up mostly Blyton results for Trotteville, can’t see any other people with the name yet.

[Moonraker]

My 7 year-old granddaughter is now reading the complete series with her mother at bedtime. She thinks I am crazy to pronounce it Trotterville.

[pete9012S]

She thinks I am crazy..

No!
No! - I won't have that - there's a crazy grandfather near Eastbourne!!

(sorry Eddie!)

[Eddie Muir]

For me, the correct pronunciation of Fatty's surname is TROT-VILL.

[Barnard]

I’m sure you are right, Eddie, that Fatty’s surname has two syllables. eg, how many syllables have the towns of Folkestone and Bournemouth.

[pete9012S]

Anyone tried listening to the google translate English pronunciation?
Quite surprising!

[Boatbuilder]

I’m sure you are right, Eddie, that Fatty’s surname has two syllables. eg, how many syllables have the towns of Folkestone and Bournemouth.

Then again, the town near where I live - Lowestoft - is pronounced 'Low-er-stoft' not 'Lowe-stoft', although those who speak with a strong local dialect may sometimes pronounce it as the latter.

[Barnard]

Of course, the clearest indication we get, that Fatty’s surname is pronounced with two syllables, is Twit’s note, warning him that he would get burgled. He may not have known how to spell Trotteville but he knew how to pronounce it which is why he left out the middle ‘e’.

[Daisy]

Of course, the clearest indication we get, that Fatty’s surname is pronounced with two syllables, is Twit’s note, warning him that he would get burgled. He may not have known how to spell Trotteville but he knew how to pronounce it which is why he left out the middle ‘e’.

To me that is proof that Enid meant it to be pronounced "Trot-vill".

[pete9012S]

Sounds good to me!

[Anita Bensoussane]

Of course, the clearest indication we get, that Fatty’s surname is pronounced with two syllables, is Twit’s note, warning him that he would get burgled. He may not have known how to spell Trotteville but he knew how to pronounce it which is why he left out the middle ‘e’.

I've always seen that as a deliberate touch of comedy, with the incorrect spelling reflecting the incorrect pronunciation of the name by Twit.

My 7 year-old granddaughter is now reading the complete series with her mother at bedtime. She thinks I am crazy to pronounce it Trotterville.

Ah, but has she yet encountered Mandeville, vaudeville or Bonneville?

[John Pickup]

For me, the correct pronunciation of Fatty's surname is TROT-VILL.

That's good enough for me. Eddie is the Oracle.

[pete9012S]

[dsr]

That's good enough for me. Eddie is the Oracle.

Pronounced "or-cle"

[Eddie Muir]

For me, the correct pronunciation of Fatty's surname is TROT-VILL.

That's good enough for me. Eddie is the Oracle.