Talk:Bicester

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Cwrwgar in topic IPA vs audio

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I am not sure that I would describe Witney as being "near" to Bicester.

Also the Kraft food factory is in Banbury not Bicester!

Mervyn, the old page is outdated. If is something that you want to keep from that version please feel free to add it to the new one. Thank you.

Miss Dannatt edit

From the fine article Miss G. H. Dannatt found 45 variants in wills of the 17th and 18th centuries. I'm curious now, who is Miss Dannatt? GyroMagician (talk) 08:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Miss Dannatt was a local school teacher who undertook post graduate research at Oxford University on Bicester wills of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . It was published in 'Oxoniensia' vols XXVI/XXVII (1961/2). RP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.76.79.100 (talk) 20:51, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Miss D sounds like an excellent source, but the way the article currently reads, it sounds as if she is important, rather than the work she did. Wouldn't she be better placed as a reference? GyroMagician (talk) 21:02, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Miss Dannatt was the Deputy Head of Bicester Grammer School and taught History. She was a lovely lady and her nickname, at least in the 60s, was 'Fan Dan' . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.146.20 (talk) 12:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Community section - proposed deletion of sentence edit

The fact the town celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 is surely unremarkable when countless towns in Britain and the Commonwealth had their own celebrations. Unless there was something distinctive from other celebrations I propose nominating the sentence for deletion.Cloptonson (talk) 20:12, 14 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Introduction edit

Could anybody correct the below sentence, as I am not sure I fully understand the meaning. It looks like the sentence has been edited from a different iteration.

It has its own town council, approximately a one quarter of the population hence ward contribution to the District Council and further representation as to different local governmental matters on the County Council.

Frogfisher (talk) 13:15, 17 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

IPA vs audio edit

The pronunciation of 'Bicester' is shown in phonetic alphabet characters as /bɪstər/, but the audio file says /bɪstə/ - the standard RP pronunciation in which the final 'r' is silent. If no one objects, I'll change the IPA to match the audio. In the near future. Cwrwgar (talk) 07:25, 17 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Apologies, I wasn't aware of MOS:RHOTIC or Help:IPA/English. If them's the rules...Cwrwgar (talk) 09:29, 15 March 2020 (UTC)Reply