Our anthem at Evensong yesterday was announced as 'Hake Dees'.
(I didn't enquire how Dee likes hers cooked.)
(I didn't enquire how Dee likes hers cooked.)
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Thanks for the factual correction Alain!
As for:
Even if it does, I'd be hard pushed to find one on my computer.I must check if Île still requires its circumflexe
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... I find copying and pasting from a text that has the necessary accents is the easiest and peasiestOriginally posted by ardcarp View Post
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Yesterday, I visited Teignmouth for the first time. The River Teign is pronounced "Teen", but the town itself is is super-crushed to "Tinmuth". In more northerly places, the same verbal erosion takes place, though Tynemouth is pronounced as written.
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Not as bad as Mildenhall (the one in Wiltshire)! Place-names have their own rules.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Possibly a new low on BBC Radio London's news last night.
Damien Hinds MP pronounced Hinds as in winds that blow.
Twice.
Presumably it wasn't a ten year old with a low IQ.
Time to bring back parrot fashion to fully stimulate the thinking processes.Comment
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Links below to a couple of fascinating sites with recordings of now almost extinct rural dialects and accents, recorded back in the 1920s and 1950s. You might want to download or bookmark these.
The first illustrates a Sussex accent. The first thing about it which struck me was an overall similarity with speech patterns still to be found in parts of Dorset, Somerset and north Gloucestershire. I then noted similarities with East Anglian speech: "agoo" for "ago" for instance, but, more unexpectedly, proximities with certain diphthonged vowel pronunciations typical of Ulster and the Tyne/NE area: "peeaper" for "paper'; "steeashun" for "station".
The second link offers a range of rural speakers from across the country - this one has attracted a lot of disagreements in the commentaries for inaccuracy, non-comprehensiveness and oversimplification, as well as a few US and Canadian contributers. Many of the clips are too short to discern common distinguishing features or difficult to make out, but nevertheless are all of interest.
The next link to a lecture on different accents and speech patterns across the country to recently arrived migrants, one presumes, will raise smiles, though I would expect those here of a West Country disposition to be disappointed that the lecturer avoids any of these, though I would not have thought Bristolian to present too many difficulties.
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I do remember an audience member on Any Questions in the 1960s, announcing her name before asking the question. The Presenter (pre-Jonathan Dimbleby) then corrected her pronunciation of her own name. What bare-faced cheek!Originally posted by Lat-Literal View PostComment
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Our old friend yer anus turned up just before 8.00 a.m. (3Breakfast, or whatever it's called). I didn't wish to upset the young lady by pointing this out to her - perhaps she's required to read this thread as part of her ongoing training....
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Nothing wrong with that - it was only changed out of squeamishness.Originally posted by LMcD View PostComment
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Like Tom Bowling? (Ish)Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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(I had to check that, but) Yes. As in boats, not arguments.Comment
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I've recently finished writing a biography of George Butterworth - that's George Sainton Kaye Butterworth - whose second name is invariably pronounced to rhyme with Paignton (R3 and CfM quite often give his name in full). But it was a French name (named for the widow of Prosper Sainton) and pronounced as such. How do I know? Because George has a 1st cousin still living! Clearly they never met, but The cousin knew George's father well, and is very clear that the name was pronounced in the French manner.Originally posted by jean View Post
I wonder what that means for Philip Sainton, the composer-grandson of Prosper and Charlotte?Comment
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