Pedants' Paradise

[Serial_Apologist]

In London, land of Cockney and Estuary English, it would be pronounced "Ver Tai' ".

Speaking as one, no it wouldn't!

(A Bristolian once told me I should say "wah-ah" for that H2O stuff )

[Bryn]

London being as wonderfully cosmopolitan as it is, there's no telling how "The Tate" might be pronounced.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

London being as wonderfully cosmopolitan as it is, there's no telling how "The Tate" might be pronounced.

Is anyone bovvered?

[french frank]

(A Bristolian once told me I should say "wah-ah" for that H2O stuff )

WAHAHAHA :-)

Working during my holiday in my uncle's battery-making (accumulator) factory, I had the Monday morning job of taking the newly laundered overalls down to the machine room. Handing over a bib-and-brace to the foreman, I apologised for it having seen better days by saying, 'Sorry its a bit holey.' He looked puzzled, and said: Jew mean holy or hawley? I said I meant hawley (full of hawls).

[Serial_Apologist]

WAHAHAHA :-)

Working during my holiday in my uncle's battery-making (accumulator) factory, I had the Monday morning job of taking the newly laundered overalls down to the machine room. Handing over a bib-and-brace to the foreman, I apologised for it having seen better days by saying, 'Sorry its a bit holey.' He looked puzzled, and said: Jew mean holy or hawley? I said I meant hawley (full of hawls).

Water would be pronounced "waw-er" in cockney, or "waw-ah" in some fairly recent manifestations. And edge cutters is for cuttin' edges, not 'edges, right?

Tate would be more like "tight", like some people are.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

London being as wonderfully cosmopolitan as it is, there's no telling how "The Tate" might be pronounced.

Using that argument we might expect 7,825,200 pronunciations of "The Tate" from London.

[MrGongGong]

Working during my holiday in my uncle's battery-making (accumulator) factory, .

was that uncle Wilhelm by any chance ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhWArBhPWu0

[french frank]

was that uncle Wilhelm by any chance ?

No, car batteries (and he was Uncle John).

[jean]

Peregrine falcons put on a show at Tate Modern

A pair of peregrine falcons have ruffled a few feathers in the art world with regular appearances at the Tate Modern.

Misty and Houdini nest in the City of London but often spend their days on the roof of the Tate where they have a bird’s eye view of the capital...

..Tim Web, the [RSPB's] London spokesman said: “We regularly offer people the chance to use the telescopes down by the Tate Modern and it has proved very popular."

Take your pick!

[french frank]

Take your pick!

Newspapers usually have a House Style rather than Take Your Pick Style.

On which subject, the last newspaper I worked on - not 20 years ago! - the house style was Rumania, rather than Romania. No one seemed to know why or to suggest Romania was the spelling generally used nowadays.

[jean]

Maybe, but here they're using three different versions of the institution's name in the same article!

[french frank]

Maybe, but here they're using three different versions of the institution's name in the same article!

That's what I meant with the first sentence (given that it was written in the Evening Standard)!

[jean]

Sorry, I was being dense!

[french frank]

Sorry, I was being dense!

No, I left a red herring with the second sentence. In my mind it wasn't a non sequitur, although reading it again ...

[Serial_Apologist]

No, I left a red herring with the second sentence. In my mind it wasn't a non sequitur, although reading it again ...

I believe Peregrine Worsthornes like red herrings. I mean Peregrine Falcons.