On 30/06/2010 09:46, Roland Perry wrote:
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've never knowingly met you, so I guess so!

- I never meet people from Holland, always "the Netherlands".

What about when you are in southern Lincolnshire?


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

In message , at
17:56:45 on Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
- I never meet people from Holland, always "the Netherlands".

What about when you are in southern Lincolnshire?

I am rarely in southern Lincolnshire, other than waiting at Grantham
station for a train.
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Roland Perry

On 29 June, 20:27, John Levine wrote:

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've heard other people pronounce it closer to pickup-see.

I've heard of Vassar, but knew nothing about it, not even that it is
in Poughkeepsie. I've just looked at their website; it's a very
impressive looking college.

The day I went to Poughkeepsie it was pouring with rain, so I didn't
stay there long. The station building is interesting, and there's a
display outside it about the old roundhouse, or was it a half-
roundhouse, steam depot. In good weather a walk across the old
railway bridge, recently re-opened to pedestrians, should be worth
doing, and the journey from New York City is a very pleasant ride
along the East bank of the Hudson from Grand Central Terminal on the
Metro North Hudson Line.

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:48:09 +0100, "Gavin.Hamilton"
wrote:

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.

I'm guessing that's more of a deliberate mispronunciation as a
nickname, like "Sluff" perhaps, rather than someone who didn't know
how to pronounce it properly.

Neil
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Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK
To reply put my first name before the at.

In message
Arthur Figgis wrote:

On 30/06/2010 09:46, Roland Perry wrote:
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've never knowingly met you, so I guess so!

- I never meet people from Holland, always "the Netherlands".

What about when you are in southern Lincolnshire?


Or Bracknell...

--
Graeme Wall

This address not read, substitute trains for rail
Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail
Photo galleries at http://graeme-wall.fotopic.net/

In message
wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:40:58 +0100, "tim...."
wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 16:30:13 on Tue, 29
Jun 2010, Graeme remarked:
Why do americans insist on calling britain "england"?

Is that North Americans or South Americans?


Maybe for the same reason Brits insist on calling the Netherlands
"Holland"?

In the latter case it doesn't help that the Dutch tourist office refers to
the country as Holland.

http://www.enjoyengland.com/

WTP

The English, Scottish and Welsh Tourist boards are independent entities

tim


Am I right in remembering a TV advert campaign decades ago which
promoted "Great English Cheeses"? One of them was Caerphilly which
even allowing for the fact that most was probably made in England
seemed a bit of a cheek.


At the time it was almost certainly made in England, Caerphilly cheese has
only recently been made in its home town again.

Some years ago I was working in Cardiff and took time out to visit Caerphilly
Castle. While there I thought I'd get some local cheese to bring home. The
local grocers not only didn't have any, not even the foriegn version, they
didn't remember when it was last produced.

--
Graeme Wall

This address not read, substitute trains for rail
Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail
Photo galleries at http://graeme-wall.fotopic.net/

Stephen Furley wrote:

On 29 June, 20:27, John Levine wrote:

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've heard other people pronounce it closer to pickup-see.

Not necessarily indicative. Pronunciations like that could just be pet
names rather than poor attempts to pronounce the name properly.

e.g. Brummagem.
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http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9633000.html
(An unidentified Virgin HST at Bescot, 25 Apr 1999)

Graeme wrote:

In message
Arthur Figgis wrote:

On 30/06/2010 09:46, Roland Perry wrote:
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've never knowingly met you, so I guess so!

- I never meet people from Holland, always "the Netherlands".

What about when you are in southern Lincolnshire?


Or Bracknell...

That's more the nether world, though.

--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9683634.html
(101 680 at Manchester Piccadilly, 7 Sep 2001)

In article ,
(Zhang Dawei) wrote:

In article , says...

In message ,
at 17:56:45 on Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
- I never meet people from Holland, always "the Netherlands".

What about when you are in southern Lincolnshire?

I am rarely in southern Lincolnshire, other than waiting at
Grantham station for a train.

Grantham was never in the part of Lincolnshire called "Holland": it
was in Kesteven, the other part (if we omit Lincoln itself), in the
north of the county, being Lindsey. If you have ever been to
Boston, then that was the largest town in the part of Lincolnshire
called "Holland". (Sometimes, the parts of Lincolnshire seemed also
to be called "counties" when I lived there, back in the 60s as well.)

The Parts of Lincolnshire each had their own separate County Council
before 1974.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, wrote:

In article ,
lid (Arthur Figgis) wrote:

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

I always call the beer by the canadian pronunciation.

'Labatt's'?

tom

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