Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Bryn]

Join the Canute school of pronunciation ?

I'll carry on pronouncing it as you do, but , you know, there is much else to concern ourselves with.

Incidentally, I didn't know till recently that Bognor and Southampton both claim the famous tide incident.

Well, they Cnut both be right, that's true.

[vinteuil]

Join the Canute school of pronunciation ?

I'll carry on pronouncing it as you do, but , you know, there is much else to concern ourselves with.

Incidentally, I didn't know till recently that Bognor and Southampton both claim the famous tide incident.

wiki has doubts as to the historicity -

"The contemporary Encomium Emmae has no mention of the episode, which has been taken as indicating its ahistoricity, as it would seem that so pious a dedication might have been recorded there since the same source gives an "eye-witness account of his lavish gifts to the monasteries and poor of St Omer when on the way to Rome, and of the tears and breast-beating which accompanied them".
Goscelin, writing later in the 11th century, instead has Canute place his crown on a crucifix at Winchester one Easter with no mention of the sea and "with the explanation that the king of kings was more worthy of it than he". Nevertheless, there may be a "basis of fact, in a planned act of piety" behind this story. On the other hand, Malcolm Godden says the story is simply "a 12th Century legend... and those 12th Century historians were always making up stories about kings from Anglo-Saxon times".
The site of the episode is often identified as Thorney Island (now known as Westminster), where Canute set up a royal palace during his reign over London. Conflictingly, a sign on Southampton city centre's Canute Road reads, "Near this spot AD 1028 Canute reproved his courtiers". Bosham in West Sussex also claims to be the site of this episode, as does Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. As Gainsborough is inland, if the story is true then Canute would have been trying to turn back the tidal bore known as the aegir. Another tradition places this episode on the north coast of the Wirral, which at the time was part of Mercia."

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, they Cnut both be right, that's true.

... He said dismissively, with the hand of a wave...

[teamsaint]

... He said dismissively, with the hand of a wave...

It’s high tide the thread moved on.

[Serial_Apologist]

It’s high tide the thread moved on.

We won't cross that bridge when we reach it..

[french frank]

It’s high tide the thread moved on.

I'm shore it is. NOW!

[cloughie]

I'm shore it is. NOW!

But the sand gets everywhere!

[johncorrigan]

But the sand gets everywhere!

Life's a beach!

[cloughie]

Life's a beach!

...and then you dry!

[Sir Velo]

Incidentally, I didn't know till recently that Bognor and Southampton both claim the famous tide incident.

That's probably because, certainly in the case of Bognor Regis, it never has been claimed. There was recently a Canute "re-enactment" held in the town but as everyone born or bred in Sussex knows it occurred nowhere else than in Bosham.

[teamsaint]

That's probably because, certainly in the case of Bognor Regis, it never has been claimed. There was recently a Canute "re-enactment" held in the town but as everyone born or bred in Sussex knows it occurred nowhere else than in Bosham.

Oh yes, slight memory fail.

No matter, it was doubtless in Southampton anyway.

[cloughie]

Oh yes, slight memory fail.

No matter, it was doubtless in Southampton anyway.

I bet you’re Itchen to Test that theory!

[Serial_Apologist]

I bet you’re Itchen to Test that theory!

Don't be so inSolent!

[cloughie]

Don't be so inSolent!

Is a punk rocker from Southampton a Spithead?

[Serial_Apologist]

Is a punk rocker from Southampton a Spithead?

They come from just across the waters and tend to leave Needles lying around, but they're really all Wight.