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Weaver

#1650
January 11, 2019, 05:25:10 PM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on January 11, 2019, 04:50:08 PM
Yay!!  ;D

I should have known, though....it's like "slough."   :banghead: :lol:   :thumbsup:

Yeah, 'ough' seems to be from an ancient Britonian root meaning "make any damn sound you like at this point"...
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

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 - Indiana Jones

TheChronicOne

#1651
January 11, 2019, 05:28:59 PM
 ;D ;D ;D :thumbsup:
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Rick Lowe

#1652
January 11, 2019, 08:12:58 PM
Referencing P'Terry again, the story I heard was that the Aboriginal for "I don't know" is how the Kangaroo got it's name...
and are there actually any places that are the Native for "Your Finger, You Fool"??  ;D

"I'll take 'Colonial Powers That Never Bothered To Learn The Local Language' for $400, please, Alex."

jcf

#1653
January 11, 2019, 08:36:57 PM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on January 11, 2019, 08:09:11 AM

We have it BAD here in Oklahoma. There are TONS of names of places around here that are American Indian... lots of places named for Natives; everything from shops, stores, road names, actual rezzes, towns and cities, you name it and you can always tell when a new news reporter from out of state moves in.

Ditto up here in the PNW/BC lots of Coast Salish derived names, as you go north up the BC coast towards
Alaska you get into Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) and Tlingit names, BTW neither of those are pronounced
as they're spelt.
;D

KiwiZac

#1654
January 11, 2019, 09:34:17 PM
I haven't found as much Revell news and discussion as I was expecting!

And come on. Worcestershire's pronunciation is ridiculous. But try living in a country with two very different official languages, with place names about evenly distributed between the two lingos!
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Rick Lowe

#1655
January 11, 2019, 11:33:45 PM
Quote from: KiwiZac on January 11, 2019, 09:34:17 PM
I haven't found as much Revell news and discussion as I was expecting!

And come on. Worcestershire's pronunciation is ridiculous. But try living in a country with two very different official languages, with place names about evenly distributed between the two lingos!

And regional pronunciation as well, despite what the 'Official Line' says... :banghead:

zenrat

#1656
January 12, 2019, 12:27:30 AM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on January 11, 2019, 04:50:08 PM
Yay!!  ;D

I should have known, though....it's like "slough."   :banghead: :lol:   :thumbsup:

Because it amuses me to do so I always have and always will pronounce that place Sluf.

The "rule" for Australian place names is pronounce them as they are spelt (more or less).
And never assume that because an Australian place has the same name as somewhere in the UK that name is pronounced the same.
Launceston in Tasmania is not pronounced Lorn-stn and Eltham in Victoria is not El-tm.

Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

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kitbasher

#1657
January 12, 2019, 12:42:37 AM
 Ot quite a pronunciation thing but the BC/Alaska name reference reminded me of Cape Breton NS.  Road signs will always carry English but I recall that being backed up with all manner of combinations of French, Gaelic and Mi'kmaq (local First Nations people).
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zenrat

#1658
January 12, 2019, 01:28:41 AM
I always used to get angry driving in Wales at the amount of money wasted on bilingual road signs.  If the places they refer to are in Wales then why not just put them in Welsh and be done with it.
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

Hobbes

#1659
January 12, 2019, 02:20:55 AM
Because lots of people refer to Welsh towns by their English names? Welsh is pretty much impossible to decode for outsiders, "Abertawe" has nothing in common with "Swansea".

I took a holiday in Wales once. The roads signs are bewildering, and I was very glad to have a satnav with me.

NARSES2

#1660
January 12, 2019, 02:31:26 AM
Quote from: zenrat on January 12, 2019, 01:28:41 AM
I always used to get angry driving in Wales at the amount of money wasted on bilingual road signs.  If the places they refer to are in Wales then why not just put them in Welsh and be done with it.

I swear in parts of the country near the English border that they have had to make them up. That was definately the case around the BS Shotton works which was really part of Cheshire with a lot of the work force coming from Merseyside and sounding like it  ;) I have never seen a town where so much of the population walked around wearing England football shirts  :angel:

If it keeps on going this way perhaps I should start a petition to have London place names signed in English and Cockney ?  ;)
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

zenrat

#1661
January 12, 2019, 02:32:15 AM
Oh everyone would get used to the Welsh names after a few hundred years or so...
;D
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

NARSES2

#1662
January 12, 2019, 02:49:49 AM
Quote from: zenrat on January 12, 2019, 02:32:15 AM
Oh everyone would get used to the Welsh names after a few hundred years or so...
;D

Yea  :banghead: Croydon was still referred to as Croydene and before that Crogdene until a hundred and fifty years or so ago. Both derived from the Anglo Saxon. Flippin Victorian's changed everything  ;D
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Weaver

#1663
January 12, 2019, 03:17:29 AM
Quote from: zenrat on January 12, 2019, 02:32:15 AM
Oh everyone would get used to the Welsh names after a few hundred years or so...
;D

I wouldn't normally recommend a Buzzfeed video, but this one is genuinely amusing:

Americans Pronounce Welsh Town Names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZPhPf-0pYM

"This looks like a game of hangman that I lost"  ;D :wacko:
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Ifor

#1664
January 12, 2019, 03:41:39 AM
I need to have a lay down in a dark room. It's made me realise my work isn't done.
As they say at home,
See those two houses on that hill? Wel,l the middle one is mine.
Whose coat is this jacket hanging on the floor!
Wales, 400 hundred miles of coastline, all facing the sea!!!!!!

Ifor(that's pronounced Ivor. One f in Welsh has a v sound, two a f sound)
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