Pow-KEEP-see.

We've always said Puh-KIP-see. When I was an undergraduate at mostly
male Yale, Poughkeepsie, the location of all-female Vassar College,
was of great interest.


I'll bow to your better knowledge. I was going by a pronunciation guide
from several articles in a couple of railroad magazines.


--
Roger Traviss

Photos of the late GER: -
http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra/

For more photos not in the above album and kitbashes etc..:-
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...Great_Eastern/

On 28/06/2010 22:34, Neil Williams wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:18:47 +0100, Jeremy Double
wrote:

OTOH, in English we don't pronounce Paris as "Paree", many people
pronounce Bologne as "Bolloin", we've changed the name of München to
Munich, Köln to Cologne, ???????to Moscow, etc... so as far as I can see,
we can pronounce Santander any way we like in England.

In that case, it's OK for the Aussies to call it "Loogerberoogah". One
can't be OK and the other not.

Neil

And so do some of the locals - I used to work with a woman who
originated from there and she was know to say it that way.

G

On 29/06/2010 18:28, Roger Traviss wrote:
Why do americans insist on calling britain "england"?

Is that North Americans or South Americans?

In this case, "Americans". Those of the U.S.A.

And yes, Americans do constantly call anything from the UK "English".
Canadians aren't so bad.



I was accused of being Australian in the USA...

G

In message , at
19:01:49 on Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
Maybe for the same reason Brits insist on calling the Netherlands
"Holland"?

But so do the Dutch (and more so than the British these days, I
suspect).

We must move in different circles - I never meet people from Holland,
always "the Netherlands".
--
Roland Perry

On 28 June, 23:20, Arthur Figgis wrote:

Anyone mentioned Bombardier yet? (being from Quebec, the train and plane
manufacturer is not pronounced like the beer)

French canadian: Bom-bah-dzay
Anglo canadian: Bom-bar-dee-yay (with a strong USian/Candian "R" in
bar)
Beer: Bomb-ber-deer (unless I'm drinking with certain railway
enthusiastic friends, in which case we deliberately mispronounce it to
match the railway supplier)

Robin

In message , at
19:13:34 on Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
People from (say) Kenya don't seem to worry that someone might think
they are from South Africa or the Central African Republic if people
describe them as African.

The Kenyans I meet are fairly keen to be classed as "East African".
--
Roland Perry

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:47:47 -0700, bob wrote:

On 28 June, 23:20, Arthur Figgis wrote:

Anyone mentioned Bombardier yet? (being from Quebec, the train and
plane manufacturer is not pronounced like the beer)

French canadian: Bom-bah-dzay
Anglo canadian: Bom-bar-dee-yay (with a strong USian/Candian "R" in bar)
Beer: Bomb-ber-deer (unless I'm drinking with certain railway
enthusiastic friends, in which case we deliberately mispronounce it to
match the railway supplier)

I once heard someone pronounce the beer as if it was the adjective
between "bombardy" and "bombardiest".

In message
"Gavin.Hamilton" wrote:

On 29/06/2010 18:28, Roger Traviss wrote:
Why do americans insist on calling britain "england"?

Is that North Americans or South Americans?

In this case, "Americans". Those of the U.S.A.

And yes, Americans do constantly call anything from the UK "English".
Canadians aren't so bad.



I was accused of being Australian in the USA...


I was accused of being Australian in Ilford!

--
Graeme Wall

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Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail
Photo galleries at http://graeme-wall.fotopic.net/

In article ,
Chris Lonsbrough wrote:


Ditto Peugeot calling themselves "Perr-jo".


I would think that's about right ... but how
many Citroëns are actually yellow in England ?

My wife's was - NBV 37 T

Sam

Roger Traviss wrote:

Even the "illegals" are generally only there for the work.

They're more likely to be there for the money they get from the work.
--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p15036424.html
(43 151 at Reading, Jun 1987)