Channel 4 presenter George Clarke slammed over pronunciation of Yorkshire town

Channel 4 presenter George Clarke slammed over pronunciation of Yorkshire town

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Yorkshire residents were furious after a Channel 4 presenter repeatedly mispronounced the name of an East Yorkshire town in his renovation show last night.

George Clarke featured a property in Hessle, near Hull, on his show George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations yesterday, that had hit a number of misfortunes because of the pandemic and a break-up.

The renovation, which concerned a run-down stable block at Thorncliffe House, had been bought by 70-year-old Bernie from Bristol for £125,000 in April 2019.

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From his home 200 miles away, the retired solicitor had tasked his son-in-law Andrew with managing the project, which he originally wanted completed in seven months on a £150,000 budget.

However, Channel 4 viewers were more focused on how George Clarke pronounced Hessle and kept mentioning ‘Humberside’.

George, who was born in the North East, has since responded to viewers' complaints.

As HullLive reports, George was presenting one of the more dramatic episodes of his Remarkable Renovations that included a love split and a global pandemic but it was his pronunciation and region names that caught the attention of more than one viewer in East Yorkshire.

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One Twitter user said: “I don’t wish to be pedantic but George Clarke simply must stop pronouncing it ‘Hessssl’ and saying Humberside.”

Another said: “Can someone please teach George Clarke how to pronounce Hessle properly.”

The presenter responded with sympathy referencing the fact he gets called a Geordie when he’s actually from the Sunderland area.

The episode itself has enough drama despite its serene beginnings.

The stables were built at the turn of the 20th century to serve Thorncliffe House, a large villa owned by a wealthy fruit importer, which were in a state and earmarked for demolition.

Bernie’s daughter Jess and her family had a home in the grounds which was his reason for moving away from his Bristol home, to be closer to family.

Bernie persuaded the owner to sell him the property, he said: ‘When we spoke and I said “I just love it as it is, I don’t even want to extend it, I want to keep it as it is”, I think that made it possible."

During his first visit to the site, presenter George Clarke said: “It’s fantastic, all in its original position, you’ve got all the little details and features everywhere, it’s a brilliant space, it really is.”

The two-storey stable had a basic structure with the ground floor dominated by the stable room and the saddle room and a small working area in between with a hearth. The second storey loft was one big open space.

Bernie converted the ground floor into a living area and kitchen, master bedroom and en-suite bathroom and then turned the second storey into three rooms - a guest bedroom, a shower room, and a living room.

Complicating the major project was the fact that Bernie lived around 200-miles away in Bristol so his son-in-law Andrew acted as project manager. In addition, Bernie split from his partner Jenni during the project.

The building work ended up taking around two-and-a-half years to complete as Bernie refused to budge from his vision of upcycling old materials including Edwardian toilets and cisterns in the horse stalls.

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Henry or ‘On-ri’: Internet divided over the RIGHT way to pronounce Hurricane Henri

Hurricane Henri is expected to pose a big risk to parts of New York and New England. But even as this dangerous hurricane approaches landfall, people online are debating how it’s pronounced.

“The weather channel is pronouncing the hurricane ‘Onri’. It’s Henri. Hen … Ree,” read one tweet. Another tweet read, “this news channel gotta be joking pronouncing hurricane henri as ‘onri’.” Another person said, “Hurricane Henri is a good band name. Pronounced Oricane Onri.”

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The weather channel is pronouncing the hurricane “Onri”

It’s Henri. Hen … Ree — Ross (@hubbs76) August 21, 2021

this news channel gotta be joking pronouncing hurricane henri as “onri” — shub (@CallHimBruce) August 21, 2021

Hurricane 🌀 Henri is a good band name. Pronounced Oricane Onri. — Roberto 📘 (@writeroberto) August 21, 2021

Despite the fact that to English-speakers, this pronunciation sounds weird, it’s not a wrong one. The name is derived from the Old French name Henri or Henry, which is itself derived from the Old Frankish name Heimeric, and from the Common Germanic name Haimariks.

This pronunciation is also pretty famous. The name of French professional football coach and former player, Thierry Henry, considered one of the greatest strikers of all time and one of the greatest players in the history of the Premier League, is pronounced as “on-ree”, or “awn-ree”. Both Germans and French use this pronunciation, as opposed to “hen-ree”.

As per a CNN report, Hurricane Henri will be dangerous enough to bring damaging winds and storm surges that threaten to bring down trees and power lines and cause major flooding. As of early Sunday morning, Henri was about 135 miles south-southeast of Montauk Point, New York, with 75 mph sustained winds, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. It was moving north at about 21 mph. “The combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline,” NHC forecasters said.

#BREAKING: Hurricane Henri causes severe flash flooding in parts of New York Citypic.twitter.com/8OP0pyeMqB — I.E.N. (@BreakingIEN) August 22, 2021

A hurricane landfall in the region is reportedly rare. Long Island has not had a direct hurricane hit since Gloria in 1985. New England last saw a hurricane landfall with Hurricane Bob in 1991. Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey in 2012,

“Henri is a much more compact storm than Sandy was when it made landfall,” CNN weather producer Robert Shackelford said. More than 50 million people in the Northeast are currently under tropical weather alerts, including more than 12 million people under a storm surge warning, and over five million people under a hurricane warning.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, Sullivan, Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Broome, Chenango, Otsego, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Saratoga, and contiguous counties on Sunday. Cuomo requested President Joe Biden to declare a pre-landfall emergency declaration. This federal declaration authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance to New Yorkers, in the aftermath of Henri and its impacts.

“New Yorkers are no strangers to the damage that is possible after dealing with a hurricane - we experienced it with Superstorm Sandy and Henri is set to be that level of storm,” Cuomo said. “We were given less notice to prepare for Henri because of shifting models, and while there is still time for the storm to shift again, I encourage New Yorkers to take this seriously. Plan for power outages, stock up on necessary supplies, and avoid flooding areas. The state is deploying resources and we will do everything we can to ensure damage is minimal and the people of this state stay safe.”

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