EEPhil
Number 28
As Alan Davies once pointed out on QI: before you eat it it's a scone (rhymes with stone) and when you've eaten it it's a scone (rhymes with its gone).Scones, scones
As Alan Davies once pointed out on QI: before you eat it it's a scone (rhymes with stone) and when you've eaten it it's a scone (rhymes with its gone).Scones, scones
I left a link for anyone interested in following it, and anyone not interested can't be educated anyway. It would be like sending back a letter with corrections to correct in-thread, unless clarification is needed. But it is also good to nudge people in the right direction.But you have a point, the original "offender" might not see the post.
Don't you mean "when you've eaten it it'scone"?when you've eaten it it's a scone
Of course I did. Think my fingers were working independently of my brain!Don't you mean "when you've eaten it it'scone"?
I was listening to a bit of banter between a couple of radio presenters recently, where one pronounced it "scone, spelt like phone", to which the other came back "but it is scone, spelt like gone" ...Scones, scones
Pronounce places like wot they are written. Leicester, Loughborough, Reading...
Previously in this thread was the Cholmondely-Marjoribanks pronunciation fiasco. https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/assume-v-presume.1453/post-125629I can follow most British place names, but how
Featherstonhaugh = Fanshaw
has always eluded my understanding.
There are many people who have problems pronouncing "th". Most of them use "f" or "v" as a substitute - which annoys me! Especially when said by BBC and ITV announcers. But "t", and moving the "r" about. He's not even saying all the right letters never mind in the right order. What a wazzerk!Diana's idiot brother insists Althorp is "Altrop"
Wazzak!What a wazzerk!
Oh ! And I looked it up first! Can't find my spelling now. Perhaps I need a rest in a darkened (padded?) room.Wazzak!
I believe he has succumbed to 'the inevitable' some time ago after people kept 'mispronouncing' it after Dianas death.Diana's idiot brother insists Althorp is "Altrop",
I tried that once with an American whilst in the pub. Never got an answer.Still, the Americans are as bad, try asking them why they don't rhyme Arkansas with Kansas,
Buggered if I know.and insist on pronouncing 'solder' as sodder' ...
And "aluminum" as a-loo-min-um. I don't know why they can't cope with the second i.the Americans are as bad, try asking them why they don't rhyme Arkansas with Kansas, and insist on pronouncing 'solder' as sodder' ...
What second i?And "aluminum" as a-loo-min-um. I don't know why they can't cope with the second i.