Sat Nav

aardvaak

I dont know who programs satnav's and if they are illiterate the other day mine was trying to take me to Bury Street Edmunds in Suffolk (should be Bury St.Edmunds) today it was trying to take me to Nor Wich in Norfolk

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Sounds like the person using the sat-nav failed to input the correct address.

Write a stern letter to the person's maker pointing out the malfunction.

The_Rainmaker

Where is Edmunds and Nor Wich?  
Just put in the postcode of your destination and then you're sorted!

aardvaak

blueskinnedbeast said:

Sounds like the person using the sat-nav failed to input the correct address.

Write a stern letter to the person's maker pointing out the malfunction.

After putting in the correct postcode it comes up in its route "Bury Street Edmunds" &  Nor Wich

aardvaak

The_Rainmaker said:

Where is Edmunds and Nor Wich?  
Just put in the postcode of your destination and then you're sorted!

Who knows but where I was going was in Suffolk & Norfolk

Mercdriver

My old E Class used to pronounce Slough as Sluff.  Still tickles me now.  Placenames in Welsh are also hilarious.  Welsh for Swansea is Abertawe.  The E Class woman used to pronounce it as About a wee.

NBLondon

aardvaak said:

I dont know who programs satnav's and if they are illiterate the other day mine was trying to take me to Bury Street Edmunds in Suffolk (should be Bury St.Edmunds) today it was trying to take me to Nor Wich in Norfolk

Useless - Nor Wich is in Connecticut for a start..

They are probably descended from the voiceover artists who did cinema ads for local businesses in the 70s.  As a youngster we found the mangling of local names hilarious.

AdrianC

aardvaak said:

I dont know who programs satnav's and if they are illiterate the other day mine was trying to take me to Bury Street Edmunds in Suffolk (should be Bury St.Edmunds) today it was trying to take me to Nor Wich in Norfolk

"St" is a common abbreviation for both Saint and Street - it's probably most common as the latter.

The voices are auto-generated, text-to-speech, so there's no surprise that there's pronunciation issues occasionally.

(BTW, I assume that the greengrocer's apostrophe is deliberate irony in such close proximity to accusations of illiteracy? Especially given the other punctuation issues.)

Jack_Cork

Yes I believe as part of a 'get people to work' scheme the government are employing  illiterate people to write sat nav software programs.
Actually I think its more likely that as nobody wants to go to Suffolk they dont spend too much time on getting it correct as it wont get used very often. To be honest I'd be more worried that the sat nav was trying to take me to Bury St.Edmunds

NBLondon

There's nothing wrong with BStE (as opposed to BSE) - a pretty church, some nice scenery and excellent beer.

Jack_Cork

NBLondon said:

There's nothing wrong with BStE (as opposed to BSE) - a pretty church, some nice scenery and excellent beer.

Served by a man with 6 fingers, assisted by his sister, who's also his wife 

(small edit due to my poor English spelling)