Graeme Wall wrote:
In message
Nick Finnigan wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
In message op.tlowp8kgm4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

As a Gog Trog (North Welshman) 'Mount Snowdon', as it's often
referred to in the meeja, always makes my blood boil.


OK, I'll bite, what should it be called? I can't find a Welsh name
for it on the OS map in my guide to North Wales. Unless it is
Eryri, but I thought was the name for the area rather than the
mountain.

Yr Wyddfa on my map.

I've only got the one in the book which is quite old now.

I'd hazard a guess that both the mountain and the language are a tad older
(but I'm willing to be proved wrong). :-)

Graeme Wall wrote:
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Fig wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:10:26 -0000, Graeme Wall
wrote:

In message op.tlowp8kgm4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

As a Gog Trog (North Welshman) 'Mount Snowdon', as it's often
referred to in the meeja, always makes my blood boil.

OK, I'll bite, what should it be called? I can't find a Welsh name
for it on the OS map in my guide to North Wales. Unless it is
Eryri, but I thought was the name for the area rather than the
mountain.

It's the 'mount' bit that annoys the locals. The english name for Yr
Wyddfa is simply 'Snowdon'.

However if you don't call it Mount Snowdon, people might think you
mean some minor royal :-)


More pedantic trivia for you:
How many ropes on a ship?

None, they are either sheets or stays.
...or warps or halyards or painters or springs or etc, etc...

You missed the cable...

But most ships have one rope.


Complete my education.

If I said "Ding" would it help? :-)

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:03:27 -0000, Brimstone
wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
In message op.tlozgnvim4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:10:26 -0000, Graeme Wall
wrote:

In message op.tlowp8kgm4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

More pedantic trivia for you:
How many ropes on a ship?

None, they are either sheets or stays.
...or warps or halyards or painters or springs or etc, etc...

You missed the cable...

But most ships have one rope.


Complete my education.

If I said "Ding" would it help? :-)

I'd rather you said "Ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding" ;-) but
you obviously get my drift. I like the cut of your jib.

--
Fig

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:03:27 -0000, Brimstone
wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
In message op.tlozgnvim4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:10:26 -0000, Graeme Wall
wrote:

In message op.tlowp8kgm4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

As a Gog Trog (North Welshman) 'Mount Snowdon', as it's often
referred to in the meeja, always makes my blood boil.

OK, I'll bite, what should it be called? I can't find a Welsh name
for it on the OS map in my guide to North Wales. Unless it is
Eryri, but I thought was the name for the area rather than the
mountain.

It's the 'mount' bit that annoys the locals. The english name for Yr
Wyddfa is simply 'Snowdon'.

However if you don't call it Mount Snowdon, people might think you
mean some minor royal :-)

But when you do say, "Mount Snowdon", I automatically think it's an order
to do something that will get me into trouble with George Clooney. :-)
--
Fig

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Fig wrote:

I'd rather you said "Ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding" ;-) but you
obviously get my drift. I like the cut of your jib.

Don't go overboard.
--
Chris Johns

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Fig wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:28:09 -0000, Graeme Wall
wrote:

In message
Christopher A.Lee wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:55:50 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Pay attention yourself, sonny. There is no such thing as "Lake
Windermere" in the Lake District, though there are five of them
elsewhere, hence my query.

mere = lake

We have River River in the south (two of them).

As a Gog Trog (North Welshman) 'Mount Snowdon', as it's often referred to in
the meeja, always makes my blood boil.

Is this where we mention Torpenhow Hill?

Am going to try to convince a francophone friend to call it Mont Torpenhow
Hill ...

tom

--
Remember Sammy Jankis.

Chris Johns wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Fig wrote:

I'd rather you said "Ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding" ;-)
but you obviously get my drift. I like the cut of your jib.

Don't go overboard.

If that's eight bells in the second dog it must be time for a pint. :-)

In message
"Brimstone" wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
In message op.tlozgnvim4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:10:26 -0000, Graeme Wall
wrote:

In message op.tlowp8kgm4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

As a Gog Trog (North Welshman) 'Mount Snowdon', as it's often
referred to in the meeja, always makes my blood boil.

OK, I'll bite, what should it be called? I can't find a Welsh name
for it on the OS map in my guide to North Wales. Unless it is
Eryri, but I thought was the name for the area rather than the
mountain.

It's the 'mount' bit that annoys the locals. The english name for Yr
Wyddfa is simply 'Snowdon'.

However if you don't call it Mount Snowdon, people might think you
mean some minor royal :-)


More pedantic trivia for you:
How many ropes on a ship?

None, they are either sheets or stays.
...or warps or halyards or painters or springs or etc, etc...

You missed the cable...

But most ships have one rope.


Complete my education.

If I said "Ding" would it help? :-)



Doh!

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

In message op.tlo1dxhbm4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:03:27 -0000, Brimstone
wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
In message op.tlozgnvim4iaeb@dell
Fig wrote:

[snip]

However if you don't call it Mount Snowdon, people might think you
mean some minor royal :-)

But when you do say, "Mount Snowdon", I automatically think it's an order
to do something that will get me into trouble with George Clooney. :-)

groan

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

In article ,
Ian Jelf wrote:

But I learned long ago that people still want everything right outside
their hotel door, something which is plainly not possible in a
metropolis like London. And when their hotels ate in Westminster,
Tower Hill, next to Saint Pancras station or what ever, they still
complain that they can't walk outside to Selfridge's/the Eye/Covent
Garden/Buckingham Palace, etc.

Well, they could ;-) (see up thread there somewhere !)

Thanks as always for your interesting experiences Ian,

Nick