Witham
From Hull AWE
The place-name Witham is pronounced in different ways, as the name of different places.
- A town in Essex is pronounced 'WIT-em', IPA: /ˈwɪt əm/. This is derived from the Old English ham, ~ village, and marks the settlement as the property of a man called Witta, or of a wita (~ 'councillor') Ekwall; Mills, 1991 derives it as from 'a homestead near a [river] bend'
- A river in Lincolnshire is pronounced 'WITH-em', /ˈwɪð əm/. Two villages lying on it, North Witham and South Witham, are pronounced the same way. This Witham is pre-Roman
- The street in Hull (part of the A165, connecting North Bridge to Holderness Road) is also pronounced 'WITH-em', /ˈwɪð əm/.
