Loogahgbaroogah
 

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[original thread on uk.railway]

On Jun 27, 12:34 am, Josie wrote:
Can I have a ticket to Loogahgbaroogah?

http://notalwaysright.com/theyll-nev...ive-welsh/5582

I year or two ago on a busy Sunday afternoon I came across two Polish
guys at the bottom of the escalators in Camden Town tube station
quizzing two puzzled looking LU employees as to how they could get to
"Ladbroke Junction" - no such place they were saying, there's Ladbroke
Grove but not Ladbroke Junction, but the Poles insisted there *was* a
Ladbroke Junction station because they lived there! Having overheard
this whilst deciphering from the displays which platform I should head
for (those au fait with Camden Town will understand), I scratched my
head to try and work out where they were going - they continued to
protest that Ladbroke Junction was very real, whilst the LU chaps
remained politely adamant that there was no such place.

Eventually I clocked it - they wanted Loughborough Junction! Evidently
no-one had told them, and they hadn't picked up on, the correct way to
pronounce the name of the place they lived in - one thing I would
certainly recommend be on the agenda when moving to a new area, even
temporarily! Given the uncertainty over whether or not the Thameslink
service was running, we deemed to direct them to Elephant & Castle
from which they could easily get a bus were there no trains.

But I'm not entirely sure that we adequately impressed on them how to
pronounce it properly, and I'm not entirely convinced they didn't just
think that for these two transport employees and this further
interested gent, this "Ladbroke Junction" simply wasn't really on
their radar.

True story.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On 27 June, 07:51, Mizter T wrote:
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[original thread on uk.railway]

On Jun 27, 12:34 am, Josie wrote:

Can I have a ticket to Loogahgbaroogah?

http://notalwaysright.com/theyll-nev...ive-welsh/5582

I year or two ago on a busy Sunday afternoon I came across two Polish
guys at the bottom of the escalators in Camden Town tube station
quizzing two puzzled looking LU employees as to how they could get to
"Ladbroke Junction" - no such place they were saying, there's Ladbroke
Grove but not Ladbroke Junction, but the Poles insisted there *was* a
Ladbroke Junction station because they lived there! Having overheard
this whilst deciphering from the displays which platform I should head
for (those au fait with Camden Town will understand), I scratched my
head to try and work out where they were going - they continued to
protest that Ladbroke Junction was very real, whilst the LU chaps
remained politely adamant that there was no such place.

Eventually I clocked it - they wanted Loughborough Junction! Evidently
no-one had told them, and they hadn't picked up on, the correct way to
pronounce the name of the place they lived in - one thing I would
certainly recommend be on the agenda when moving to a new area, even
temporarily! Given the uncertainty over whether or not the Thameslink
service was running, we deemed to direct them to Elephant & Castle
from which they could easily get a bus were there no trains.

But I'm not entirely sure that we adequately impressed on them how to
pronounce it properly, and I'm not entirely convinced they didn't just
think that for these two transport employees and this further
interested gent, this "Ladbroke Junction" simply wasn't really on
their radar.

True story.

Overgeneralisation can also be a problem. Having learned about
Greenwich and feeling clever, somone wanting to go a bit further east
did ask for "Grinnith". This was long before a certain shopping
metropolis had opened there.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

MIG wrote:

Overgeneralisation can also be a problem.

Indeed. It's illegal in Scrabble.
--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309759.html
(66 410 at Winwick, 10 Mar 2005)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On 27/06/2010 08:13, MIG wrote:
On 27 June, 07:51, Mizter wrote:
[x-posted to uk.transport.london]
[original thread on uk.railway]

On Jun 27, 12:34 am, wrote:

Can I have a ticket to Loogahgbaroogah?

http://notalwaysright.com/theyll-nev...ive-welsh/5582

I year or two ago on a busy Sunday afternoon I came across two Polish
guys at the bottom of the escalators in Camden Town tube station
quizzing two puzzled looking LU employees as to how they could get to
"Ladbroke Junction" - no such place they were saying, there's Ladbroke
Grove but not Ladbroke Junction, but the Poles insisted there *was* a
Ladbroke Junction station because they lived there! Having overheard
this whilst deciphering from the displays which platform I should head
for (those au fait with Camden Town will understand), I scratched my
head to try and work out where they were going - they continued to
protest that Ladbroke Junction was very real, whilst the LU chaps
remained politely adamant that there was no such place.

Eventually I clocked it - they wanted Loughborough Junction! Evidently
no-one had told them, and they hadn't picked up on, the correct way to
pronounce the name of the place they lived in - one thing I would
certainly recommend be on the agenda when moving to a new area, even
temporarily! Given the uncertainty over whether or not the Thameslink
service was running, we deemed to direct them to Elephant& Castle
from which they could easily get a bus were there no trains.

But I'm not entirely sure that we adequately impressed on them how to
pronounce it properly, and I'm not entirely convinced they didn't just
think that for these two transport employees and this further
interested gent, this "Ladbroke Junction" simply wasn't really on
their radar.

True story.

Overgeneralisation can also be a problem. Having learned about
Greenwich and feeling clever, somone wanting to go a bit further east
did ask for "Grinnith".

This is known as "hypercorrection".

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On 27 June, 12:44, Chris Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:
MIG wrote:
Overgeneralisation can also be a problem.

Indeed. It's illegal in Scrabble.
--http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309759.html
(66 410 at Winwick, 10 Mar 2005)

Well, it's too long for the Collins Scrabble Checker, which accepts
both overgeneralise and generalisation. I am not sure what to make of
the length limit. Does it imply a rule, or is it just the limits of
the checker? Not rejected anyway; just can't be entered.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

"MIG" wrote in message
...
On 27 June, 12:44, Chris Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:
MIG wrote:
Overgeneralisation can also be a problem.

Indeed. It's illegal in Scrabble.
--http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309759.html
(66 410 at Winwick, 10 Mar 2005)

Well, it's too long for the Collins Scrabble Checker, which accepts
both overgeneralise and generalisation. I am not sure what to make of
the length limit. Does it imply a rule, or is it just the limits of
the checker? Not rejected anyway; just can't be entered.

If it's more than 15 letters it can't be entered on the board anyway.
Overgeneralisation is 18 letters. Unless you are playing Super Scrabble, I
have checked and it is invalid.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On 27 June, 19:44, "Steve" wrote:
"MIG" wrote in message

...

On 27 June, 12:44, Chris *Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:
MIG wrote:
Overgeneralisation can also be a problem.

Indeed. It's illegal in Scrabble.
--http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309759.html
(66 410 at Winwick, 10 Mar 2005)

Well, it's too long for the Collins Scrabble Checker, which accepts
both overgeneralise and generalisation. *I am not sure what to make of
the length limit. *Does it imply a rule, or is it just the limits of
the checker? *Not rejected anyway; just can't be entered.

If it's more than 15 letters it can't be entered on the board anyway.
Overgeneralisation is 18 letters. Unless you are playing Super Scrabble, I
have checked and it is invalid.

Duh. As a last resort, consider the bleedin obvious.

Meantime, I am sure I already mentioned the pronunciation reported to
me by someone I believe, by a tourist wanting to go to Inga-testony.
(The implausible bit is that someone wanted to go there.)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On Jun 27, 8:13*am, MIG wrote:

Overgeneralisation can also be a problem. *Having learned about
Greenwich and feeling clever, somone wanting to go a bit further east
did ask for "Grinnith". *This was long before a certain shopping
metropolis had opened there.

Indeed. Can I have a return from Blox'ich via Ips'ich to Nor-wich,
please?

Loogahgbaroogah
 

"MIG" wrote

Meantime, I am sure I already mentioned the pronunciation reported to
me by someone I believe, by a tourist wanting to go to Inga-testony.

Bill Hayles, formerly of this parish, recounted the time when he was booking
office clerk at St John's and tried to sell a ticket to Yeovil to someone
who wanted to go to Oval.

Peter

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On 27/06/2010 21:06, Ian Jelf wrote:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

--
Josie
Reverse 'liar' to e-mail me.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

Josie writes:

On 27/06/2010 21:06, Ian Jelf wrote:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In message , at 21:06:26 on Sun,
27 Jun 2010, Ian Jelf remarked:

War - sester (Worcester)

And War-Wick.

Changing industries for a moment, I find myself increasingly surrounded
by Americans who use the Inner-net (and not as a contraction of
Intranet).
--
Roland Perry

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In article ,
says...

Josie writes:

On 27/06/2010 21:06, Ian Jelf wrote:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

American customers used to refer to the place in Sarf Essex as 'Bay-
zill-don' from the way they pronounce the herb 'basil'.

Maybe Bay-zill Jet knows this.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In message
MIG wrote:

On 27 June, 12:44, Chris Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:
MIG wrote:
Overgeneralisation can also be a problem.

Indeed. It's illegal in Scrabble.
--http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309759.html
(66 410 at Winwick, 10 Mar 2005)

Well, it's too long for the Collins Scrabble Checker, which accepts
both overgeneralise and generalisation. I am not sure what to make of
the length limit. Does it imply a rule, or is it just the limits of
the checker? Not rejected anyway; just can't be entered.

Will it fit on the board?

--
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/

Loogahgbaroogah
 

"The Gardener" wrote in message
...
On Jun 27, 8:13 am, MIG wrote:

Overgeneralisation can also be a problem. Having learned about
Greenwich and feeling clever, somone wanting to go a bit further
east
did ask for "Grinnith". This was long before a certain shopping
metropolis had opened there.

Indeed. Can I have a return from Blox'ich via Ips'ich to Nor-wich,
please?

Is that Norrich or Naarridge?

Loogahgbaroogah
 

MIG wrote:

On 27 June, 12:44, Chris Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:
MIG wrote:
Overgeneralisation can also be a problem.

Indeed. It's illegal in Scrabble.
--http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309759.html
(66 410 at Winwick, 10 Mar 2005)

Well, it's too long for the Collins Scrabble Checker, which accepts
both overgeneralise and generalisation. I am not sure what to make of
the length limit. Does it imply a rule, or is it just the limits of
the checker? Not rejected anyway; just can't be entered.

The board is only 15x15, and words can't go round corners.
--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9683652.html
(Class 108 51916 at Kettering - last day of the Corby service, 1990)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:06:26 +0100, Ian Jelf
wrote:

snipped

Real ones (ie to me, in 18+ years in tourism), complete with the reasons
"tourists" might want to go to sometimes unlikely places):

Neck-ells (Nechells area of Birmingham. To get to the "Star City"
complex))

Sluff (Slough, as they;d been told to get a bus from Heathrow with that
destination, in order to reach an hotel)

Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North
Americans)

War - sester (Worcester)

Lie - ces - ter (Leicester)

Bury Street in Edmunds (Bury St Edmunds)

Not quite a place name but an American lady living in Britain on a tour
of mine once said she caused amusement among her new British friends by
always calling Sainsbury's "Sains - berry"; apparently they ended up
calling it that, too!

sure there have been more.

Tourists and natives alike are asked in this country to pronounce the
new name for Abbey as San-tan-daire. I asked the staff whether they
would look at the cal-en-daire on the wall, and whether I could
ten-daire a 5 pound note. Sensible answers were prohibited by
management.

Guy Gorton

Loogahgbaroogah
 

"Graham Murray" wrote in message
...
Josie writes:

On 27/06/2010 21:06, Ian Jelf wrote:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North
Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

Nothing. It's an easily understood mistake

tim

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In message , at 06:52:40 on Mon,
28 Jun 2010, Graham Murray remarked:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

Poughkeepsie. (or should that be: Mornington Crescent).
--
Roland Perry

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In message , at 08:02:20
on Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Jim
remarked:
American customers used to refer to the place in Sarf Essex as 'Bay-
zill-don' from the way they pronounce the herb 'basil'.

Oh-ray-gan-oh / Orry-gah-no (Tomayto/tomartoe)
--
Roland Perry

Loogahgbaroogah
 

Ian Jelf wrote:

Meantime, I am sure I already mentioned the pronunciation reported to
me by someone I believe, by a tourist wanting to go to Inga-testony.
(The implausible bit is that someone wanted to go there.)

Real ones (ie to me, in 18+ years in tourism), complete with the reasons
"tourists" might want to go to sometimes unlikely places):

Neck-ells (Nechells area of Birmingham. To get to the "Star City"
complex))

Sluff (Slough, as they;d been told to get a bus from Heathrow with that
destination, in order to reach an hotel)

Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North
Americans)

Not quite a place name but an American lady living in Britain on a tour
of mine once said she caused amusement among her new British friends by
always calling Sainsbury's "Sains - berry"; apparently they ended up
calling it that, too!

sure there have been more.

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"

--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309741.html
(43 015 at Wolverhampton, 4 Oct 1987)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On 28 June, 08:05, Graeme wrote:
In message
* * * * * MIG wrote:

On 27 June, 12:44, Chris *Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:
MIG wrote:
Overgeneralisation can also be a problem.

Indeed. It's illegal in Scrabble.
--http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309759.html
(66 410 at Winwick, 10 Mar 2005)

Well, it's too long for the Collins Scrabble Checker, which accepts
both overgeneralise and generalisation. *I am not sure what to make of
the length limit. *Does it imply a rule, or is it just the limits of
the checker? *Not rejected anyway; just can't be entered.

Will it fit on the board?

No, as has been pointed out.

Didn't realise it was so small, but it's been a long time.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 21:06:26 on Sun,
27 Jun 2010, Ian Jelf remarked:

War - sester (Worcester)

And War-Wick.

Changing industries for a moment, I find myself increasingly surrounded by
Americans who use the Inner-net (and not as a contraction of Intranet).
--
Roland Perry


And yet Berwick in Sussex is supposed to be pronounced Ber-wick, although it
seldom is.

--

Regards

John

Loogahgbaroogah
 

"Peter Masson" wrote in message
...


"MIG" wrote

Meantime, I am sure I already mentioned the pronunciation reported to
me by someone I believe, by a tourist wanting to go to Inga-testony.

Bill Hayles, formerly of this parish, recounted the time when he was
booking office clerk at St John's and tried to sell a ticket to Yeovil to
someone who wanted to go to Oval.

Peter


Oban or Holborn?

--

Regards

John

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris Tolley wrote:

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"

Why do I think of the Ying-Tong song? :)

--
Alex

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In message
Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

MIG wrote:

On 27 June, 12:44, Chris Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:
MIG wrote:
Overgeneralisation can also be a problem.

Indeed. It's illegal in Scrabble.
--http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309759.html
(66 410 at Winwick, 10 Mar 2005)

Well, it's too long for the Collins Scrabble Checker, which accepts
both overgeneralise and generalisation. I am not sure what to make of
the length limit. Does it imply a rule, or is it just the limits of
the checker? Not rejected anyway; just can't be entered.

The board is only 15x15, and words can't go round corners.

A bit like Harley-Davidsons...

--
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/

Loogahgbaroogah
 

Alex Potter wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris Tolley wrote:

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"

Why do I think of the Ying-Tong song? :)

I'm sorry, being of tender years, the reference is lost on me.
--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9632834.html
(33 017 at London Waterloo, 14 Mar 1981)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In message
Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Alex Potter wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris Tolley wrote:

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"

Why do I think of the Ying-Tong song? :)

I'm sorry, being of tender years, the reference is lost on me.

Radio 7, Thursday Mornings at 0800 might give you a clue.

--
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/

Loogahgbaroogah
 

Graeme wrote:

In message
Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Alex Potter wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris Tolley wrote:

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"

Why do I think of the Ying-Tong song? :)

I'm sorry, being of tender years, the reference is lost on me.

Radio 7, Thursday Mornings at 0800 might give you a clue.

I'll clarify. I know of the Ying Tong song. I even looked it up to see
if there is some reference in the Lyrics to the names of main roads in
London, but couldn't see one.

NB The "Key Apsiddy" mentioned above was uttered with what seemed at the
time a fairly reasonable Cockney accent, so it wasn't a case of him
being a stranger in Town.
--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309756.html
(47 455 at Helsby, 5 Jun 1985)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In message
Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Graeme wrote:

In message
Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Alex Potter wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris Tolley wrote:

Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to St
Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's the one
just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"

Why do I think of the Ying-Tong song? :)

I'm sorry, being of tender years, the reference is lost on me.

Radio 7, Thursday Mornings at 0800 might give you a clue.

I'll clarify. I know of the Ying Tong song. I even looked it up to see
if there is some reference in the Lyrics to the names of main roads in
London, but couldn't see one.

NB The "Key Apsiddy" mentioned above was uttered with what seemed at the
time a fairly reasonable Cockney accent, so it wasn't a case of him
being a stranger in Town.

Despite coming from a London family, I've still not decoded that one.

sounds of brain cogs whirring, albeit somewhat squeakily


Doh! OK someone was extracting the urine, obviously.

--
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/

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:24:46 +0100, Zhang Dawei
wrote:

You say Car-mee-na, I say Car-my-na ... mee-na, my-na ... Let's call
the whole thing Orff"

Zucchini/Courgette (haven't got the hang of this, have I!)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:54:43 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

Changing industries for a moment, I find myself increasingly surrounded
by Americans who use the Inner-net (and not as a contraction of
Intranet).

oop North we use tin-ter-net.

Loogahgbaroogah
 

Ivor The Engine wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:24:46 +0100, Zhang Dawei
wrote:

You say Car-mee-na, I say Car-my-na ... mee-na, my-na ... Let's call
the whole thing Orff"

Zucchini/Courgette (haven't got the hang of this, have I!)

I have always wondered why I've never seen a courge.

Mind you, it's fair to acknowledge that Majors rarely look how one might
imagine fully-grown Majorettes to look.
--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9628984.html
(13336 (ex 08 266) at Haworth, 15 Jan 2000)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

On Jun 28, 4:34*pm, Graeme wrote:

Chris *Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Graeme wrote:

Chris *Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Alex Potter wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:21:32 +0100, Chris *Tolley wrote:
Was in London decades ago and got in a taxi wantong to go to
St Mary-le-Bow Church in the City. Taxi driver responded, "that's
the one just off Key Apsiddy, innit?"

Why do I think of the Ying-Tong song? :)

I'm sorry, being of tender years, the reference is lost on me.

Radio 7, Thursday Mornings at 0800 might give you a clue.

I'll clarify. I know of the Ying Tong song. I even looked it up to see
if there is some reference in the Lyrics to the names of main roads
in London, but couldn't see one.

NB The "Key Apsiddy" mentioned above was uttered with what seemed at the
time a fairly reasonable Cockney accent, so it wasn't a case of him
being a stranger in Town.

Despite coming from a London family, I've still not decoded that one.

sounds of brain cogs whirring, albeit somewhat squeakily

Doh! *OK someone was extracting the urine, obviously.

Indeed! (Keep up at the back!)

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In article ,
Josie wrote:

On 27/06/2010 21:06, Ian Jelf wrote:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

Dunno - I'm not sure there are many people from Edinburg either.

There is a Peterborough (Peter-burr-OH) in Ontario.

Sam

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In article ,
Graham Murray wrote:

Josie writes:

On 27/06/2010 21:06, Ian Jelf wrote:
Edin - burrow (Edinburgh, as almost *always* pronounced by North Americans)

Are any of them from Pitsburrow?

The Americans are no better, with Kansas and Arkansas. I wonder what the
reaction would be if a Brit were refer to Ar-Can-Zus while in the USA.

If they were talking about the river that flows through Colorado or
Kansas, they'd be right, though the pronounciation changes when you get
downstream, apparently.

Sam

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In article ,
Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Jim
writes

American customers used to refer to the place in Sarf Essex as 'Bay-
zill-don' from the way they pronounce the herb 'basil'.

Maybe Bay-zill Jet knows this.

Oh, I'd forgotten this story! I once had a US client who amused me
somewhat by referring to Basil (the herb!) As "Bay - zil". Indeed, I
was *so* taken with this, I actually asked her "Does that mean you say
'Bay - zil' Brush, too?"

Unsurprisingly, she had no idea of what I was on about!

Cecil the Seasick Seaserpent doesn't work in British English, either.

Sam

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In article ,
Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Ivor The Engine wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:24:46 +0100, Zhang Dawei
wrote:

You say Car-mee-na, I say Car-my-na ... mee-na, my-na ... Let's call
the whole thing Orff"

Zucchini/Courgette (haven't got the hang of this, have I!)

I have always wondered why I've never seen a courge.

Or a zuccho? Used to be quite common when I were a lad.

Mind you, it's fair to acknowledge that Majors rarely look how one might
imagine fully-grown Majorettes to look.

:-) I'm trying to think of a joke about a small former Prime Minister
and failing.

Sam

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In article ,
Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Roland Perry
writes
In message , at 21:06:26 on
Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Ian Jelf remarked:

War - sester (Worcester)

And War-Wick.

D'oh! Slaps forehead. I work there - and thus get that - **ALL**
the time!

Dionne has a lot to answer for.

Sam

Loogahgbaroogah
 

In article ,
Sam Wilson wrote:

In article ,
Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

I have always wondered why I've never seen a courge.

Or a zuccho? Used to be quite common when I were a lad.

"zucco" of course.

Sam