By-uh, Bay-Uh or By-Oh

[ardcarp]

Great to hear that the tapestry (actually an embroidery, I am told) is coming to visit the UK, where it was probably made. I commonly hear two different pronunciations Bay-Uh, and By-Uh, but I think Eddie Mair surpassed himself on PM today with By-Oh.

Eau dear.

Those who have seen it in Caen (don't try that one please, Eddie) may have been, like me, surprised at its small height...though it is impressively long.

[pastoralguy]

Those who have seen it... surprised at its small height...

Just like The White House, Tom Cruise and Her Majesty...

[Triforium]

Not to make a long story short....

[eighthobstruction]

Just like The White House, Tom Cruise and Her Majesty...

....and Trumps small hands....

....the Mississippi isn't as long as you think but it does have a lot of s's....

[Petrushka]

Found myself in Bayeux a few years ago and had a pleasant wander round but failed to see the tapestry. There's a good D-Day museum there though.

[Richard Tarleton]

Some cracking suggestions as to what we might lend them (not all of them practical) - HMS Victory; the skeleton of Marengo, Napoleon's horse (captured at Waterloo, lived out its days in England)....

[johncorrigan]

I commonly hear two different pronunciations Bay-Uh, and By-Uh, but I think Eddie Mair surpassed himself on PM today with By-Oh.

You can take the boy oot o' Dundee, but you cannae take Dundee oot o' the boy!

[Richard Tarleton]

And then there's Roy Orbison

[Serial_Apologist]

In the 1930s my antique dealing grandfather condicted a heated debate with an expert on the Bayeux Tapestry through the pages of The Times, in which he insisted that the tapestry had been made in Glemsford, a village on the Essex/Suffolk border. He got the country right, at least!

[french frank]

The thread title is interesting because all three suggestions are wrong. The syllabification in French is Ba-yeux and if you pronounce the two syllable separately [roughly Bah-yö] you will get the correct pronunciation.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The thread title is interesting because all three suggestions are wrong. The syllabification in French is Ba-yeux and if you pronounce the two syllable separately [roughly Bah-yö] you will get the correct pronunciation.

So, it's a buyer's market?

[french frank]

So, it's a buyer's market?

Is it? I'm just pondering that I think there might be a tinge of difference …

Just realised: buyer is stressed on the first syllable, Bayeux on the second

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is it? I'm just pondering that I think there might be a tinge of difference …
Just realised: buyer is stressed on the first syllable, Bayeux on the second

- I didn't know that.