If an S and an I and an O and a U With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, Pray what is a speller to do?
Then, if also an S and an I and a G And an HED spell side, There’s nothing much left for a speller to do But to go and commit siouxeyesighed.
— Charles Follen Adams
October 15, 2021, 22:35
BobHale
The ones that always perplex me are the ways that posh people pronounce their names.
Its all very well for someone to decide that St John should be pronounced Sinjin - I can at a stretch imagine how that could be but what are we to make of Featherstonehaugh being pronounced "Fanshaw" or Cholmondeley being "Chumley". What about Beauchamp becoming "Beecham"or Belvoir being Beever? Dalziel is Deal? Really.
Lampooned in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances where the lead insists that her surname "Bucket" should properly be pronounced "Bouquet".
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 16, 2021, 06:17
Geoff
I've known instances wherein seeing a beaver was a belle voir.
October 18, 2021, 18:06
haberdasher
Hough oughten oughsetting it is tough knough tough much...
(cf. bough, cough, hiccough, through, though, tough)This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,