Silversea Water Cooler: Welcome! Part Five

[Tothesunset]

Oh, and while we're at it. Why are Leicester, Worcester and Bicester respectively pronounced Lesster, Wusster and Bisster yet Cirencester is fully enunciated? 

 

And isn't it about time we loaned the Welsh some vowels? 

[lincslady]

Lovely webcam view of the Moon.  I admit I started by looking in the sky for the original moon!  And hopefully another nice day before evening  rain and maybe storms.

 

Tts - I really needed to know the locals pronounce Des Moines - is this how they say it? Surely not.

 

Lola

[Tothesunset]

3 minutes ago, lincslady said:

Lovely webcam view of the Moon.  I admit I started by looking in the sky for the original moon!  And hopefully another nice day before evening  rain and maybe storms.

 

Tts - I really needed to know the locals pronounce Des Moines - is this how they say it? Surely not.

 

Lola

I'm no authority on Iowan dialect but it seems Dez Moynz is their pronunciatory preference. I know! 

[Tothesunset]

My personal, favourite strange pronunciation is a town in West Yorkshire:

 

Skelmanthorpe = Shat

 

Yeah, me neither. 

[lincslady]

Welsh is a completely different language, and probably kept so difficult deliberately to fox those who do not speak or understand it.  (I say this as a 50% Welsh person  though I was not born there, and only understand one or two rude phrases).

 

Lola

[Tothesunset]

8 minutes ago, lincslady said:

Welsh is a completely different language, and probably kept so difficult deliberately to fox those who do not speak or understand it.  (I say this as a 50% Welsh person  though I was not born there, and only understand one or two rude phrases).

 

Lola

Diolch an fawr! 

[jpalbny]

2 hours ago, lincslady said:

Tts - I really needed to know the locals pronounce Des Moines - is this how they say it? Surely not.

 

Lola

 

I always learned De-Moyn

[lincslady]

Yes, that is I what I thought.  We Brits can hardly complain, as we call Beaulieu  Bewley!

 

Lola

[Tothesunset]

46 minutes ago, jpalbny said:

 

I always learned De-Moyn

Phew! Happy to be corrected. Now I'm wondering how many Iowans laughed inwardly at my poor attempt at pronouncing that fine city's name. 

[jpalbny]

TTS, I'm from New York so who knows; I may be saying it wrong too.

[dawntrdr]

DH was born and raised there.  They say  D'Moyn.

[lincslady]

Thanks, good to get it from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

 

Lola

[scottjeanne]

Years ago I was in Falmouth and went to a town called Mousehole-moose el.  Too funny

[Tothesunset]

It's not just silly names that's fun but local accents too. We Ulster folk have the peculiar knack of making many one syllable words into two syllables, then, just to be contrary, turn some duosyllabic words into monosyllables.  Some examples:

 

Face becomes fee-ass

Eight becomes ee-at

Film becomes fill-um

 

Yet Northern Ireland becomes Norn Iron

 

I no longer have my abrasive Shankill Road accent and in almost all respects use accepted English pronunciation. The one strong exception is the word eight. While mostly I pronounce it as 'ate' I have to concentrate. 8,888 still takes some getting out. 

[spinnaker2]

I went to school in Lexington Kentucky, and totally mispronounced just about everything, and was called a damn yankee, but one of the biggest guffaws from my peers came the time I pronounced the town of Versailles with my knowledge of the place in France.  I was told I was so wrong, the name is 

just that, VER SALES, with a southern drawl.

 

Edited May 19, 2022 by spinnaker2

[Tothesunset]

1 hour ago, lincslady said:

Thanks, good to get it from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

 

Lola

Better than the horse's ass who thought it was dez moynz! 

[spinnaker2]

Time for some food porn.

 

 

[Fletcher]

I remember Bill Bryson started one of his books, maybe his first, by saying, 'I come from Des Moines.  Well, somebody had to.'

Edited May 19, 2022 by Fletcher

[silkismom]

Of course there is Norfolk NE but Norfuck, VA.

[highplanesdrifters]

43 minutes ago, Fletcher said:

I remember Bill Bryson started one of his books, maybe his first, by saying, 'I come from Des Moines.  Well, somebody had to.'

Love Bill Bryson. In a Sunburned Country might be one of my favorite travel books.

[Tothesunset]

Bill Bryson plays words like Yehudi Menhin played the violin. 

 

An absolute master of his craft. 

[SteveH2508]

Why is the place name Sevenoaks pronounced as it is spelled, but the same surname is pronounced Snooks?

[dusababy]

3 hours ago, jpalbny said:

TTS, I'm from New York so who knows; I may be saying it wrong too.

You're right jp -- I'm a midwesterner.

[mchell810]

2 hours ago, spinnaker2 said:

Time for some food porn.

 

 

 

Oh that is lovely!  Both the view and the plates!  

[TrulyBlonde]

4 hours ago, dusababy said:

You're right jp -- I'm a midwesterner.

I am a MW too 🙂. Miracle Whip or Mayo? Tennis shoes or Sneakers? LOL