Pronunciation watch

[vinteuil]

And then of course there's one of the best things I've ever tasted....

... far too early to be drinking a 2010 ch talbot

I hope at the very least you had it decanted...

[Nick Armstrong]

... far too early to be drinking a 2010 ch talbot

I hope at the very least you had it decanted...

I had the 1980 I think ... some years ago... Couldn't find a pic (I knew someone would pick me up on it!)

[vinteuil]

Wasn't it something to do with Goldsmith's Now! magazine?

... ah yes, thank you.

Wiki confirms :

"Sir James Goldsmith's short-lived magazine Now! was renamed [in Private Eye] Talbot! (with the exclamation mark) after a range of cars that were launched at around the same time."

[french frank]

Indeed, as in Henry Fox Talbot, who hailed from the same family as those who built the port.

Not quite, since Fox Talbot was an Englishman. I put 'in Welsh' deliberately in quotes since in one sense an English name is an English name. It was only another quibble on my part - I would expect some (certainly not all - but some) Welsh speakers to pronounce it as they would pronounce Welsh 'tal'. In the way that a French speaker might say Talboe!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Similarly Halfords was pronounced Hollfords until the ITV advertisers changed it to sound like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 computer.

[Pabmusic]

Similarly Halfords was pronounced Hollfords until the ITV advertisers changed it to sound like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 computer.

And I still say "Holfords" - if I ever would now, come to think of it.

[vinteuil]

Similarly Halfords was pronounced Hollfords until the ITV advertisers changed it to sound like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 computer.

... or even, round these parts, 'Hawlfords'

[ahinton]

... or even, round these parts, 'Hawlfords'

Mon Dieu! Around which parts might those be?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mon Dieu! Around which parts might those be?

Hawlifax.

[vinteuil]

Mon Dieu! Around which parts might those be?

.

https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/is-there-a-north-south-divide-and-where-is-it/

[Nick Armstrong]

Mon Dieu! Around which parts might those be?

Tawffton Pauncefote-cum-Wittering

[vinteuil]

... ah, Nottingham!

They never quite know whether they're northerners or southerners.

However, we know...

[Nick Armstrong]

... ah, Nottingham!

Jewel o't' Midlands, mi duck!

[french frank]

... ah, Nottingham!

Or Snotengaham as it was known to the Saxons. And incidentally, Halifax was recorded as Haylyffax and Hollifax in the 16th c.

[Nick Armstrong]

Or Snotengaham as it was known to the Saxons.

Ah yes - the hangout of Snot and his crew. That discovery caused some hilarity and not a little pride among the pre-adolescent successors of Snot, self included