The Vent and Rant Thread

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

In the UK lough is pronounced similarly to loch.

People's surnames can be a nightmare.
I recently read 'Miss Marjoribanks' by Margaret Oliphant and pronounced the name as written.
There was a radio adaptation on over the weekend and they pronounced Marchbanks.

First names too, like Hermione in the Harry Potter books. I got through 2 and half books pronouncing it as "her me own"

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

ooh !! oooh !! what do i win ??? must be something GREAT, right ?

A pony.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Fledchen

Oh, right, this is what I was originally going to post before I got sidetracked:

Today, I discovered that SD cards do not like being run over by cars

I got tangled up in my headphone cord while crossing the street, and my MP3 player hit the ground with enough force to eject the SD card. I was able to retrieve the MP3 player before the next car came, but had to wait for 5 cars to run over the SD card before I could retrieve it. It looks just fine, but nothing will recognize it. I have other cards, and I can replace the content that was on the card, but it will take me hours to get it organized the way it was! I have backups of the files but not of the way in which they were organized on the card.

The only file for which I do not have a backup was an audiobook in which I had about 45 minutes remaining. The suspense is killing me!

oh no ! that would drive me completely MAD. i hope you manage to finish your book soon, and that it doesn't take you too long to get your files organised again... (i guess from now on you'll make a backup of the file structure too, then ? )

Originally Posted by pshrynk

A pony.

here we go again...

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Yep, but the U.S. can be just as bad - I spent the first twenty years of my life pronouncing Arkansas the way it is written.

you're not half wrong, residents of Kansas call the river the "our Kansas" river instead of the Arkansas

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

sounds like perfect Pennsylvania Dutch to me!

Throw papa down the stairs his tie.

I find myself unconsciously using constructs like that, and not even noticing. I come from next door to the PA Dutch area.

Throw me out the window my keys. Thanks!

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

it baffles me how you get that from "happisburgh" but okay. Wymondham is worse than Worcestshire ! (i used to know a really good one but i forgot it. written down it was something like 6 syllables, but only 2 were pronounced. )

how is the english city of warwick pronounced ? warrick ?

Maybe the long one you are thinking of is a surname; Featherstonehaugh

Spoiler:

Fanshaw

Or one that caught me out is a place name in Scotland; Milngavie

Spoiler:

Mul-guy

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

If you want your name pronounced a certain way, for goodness sake spell it a certain way!!

My last name can be pronounced phonetically, and people still get it wrong. Here, let me help you:

H-off-elder

Why the bleep can't people figure it out?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

My last name can be pronounced phonetically, and people still get it wrong. Here, let me help you:

H-off-elder

Why the bleep can't people figure it out?

i sympathise with you (nobody can pronounce my name, and even fewer people can spell it, although it's really very simple ), but your name seems like it should be really easy. i can't actually think of an alternate (wrong) pronunciation. how do people pronounce it ?

[happy_terd]

just compiled the last 600 posts for the 4 word story update thread and somehow accidently lost it before I could cut and paste.

BAH

[pshrynk]

My last name (Proctor) is a good old English name. There is a branch of the family that settled in the Ohio River Valley a long time ago. One of the sons of that group was a store keeper with a partner named Gamble. They had a really good flaked soap that they sold and decided to go into the distribution business. When the labels came back from the printer, it was misspelled (Procter). Being cheap, they decided to just change his name (Easier to do back in those days). So, now, everyone in the world, when I tell them my name, I have to spell for them Proct OH r. Sheesh.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

just compiled the last 600 posts for the 4 word story update thread and somehow accidently lost it before I could cut and paste.

BAH

aarrgg !! how annoying !

Originally Posted by pshrynk

My last name (Proctor) is a good old English name. There is a branch of the family that settled in the Ohio River Valley a long time ago. One of the sons of that group was a store keeper with a partner named Gamble. They had a really good flaked soap that they sold and decided to go into the distribution business. When the labels came back from the printer, it was misspelled (Procter). Being cheap, they decided to just change his name (Easier to do back in those days). So, now, everyone in the world, when I tell them my name, I have to spell for them Proct OH r. Sheesh.

sheesh. you'd think that with the fortune they were going to make on that soap they could have had those bloody labels reprinted, so as to avoid this sort of pain and heartache for all future generations of ProctOrs...

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

My last name (Proctor) is a good old English name. There is a branch of the family that settled in the Ohio River Valley a long time ago. One of the sons of that group was a store keeper with a partner named Gamble. They had a really good flaked soap that they sold and decided to go into the distribution business. When the labels came back from the printer, it was misspelled (Procter). Being cheap, they decided to just change his name (Easier to do back in those days). So, now, everyone in the world, when I tell them my name, I have to spell for them Proct OH r. Sheesh.

My surname also gets misspelled (or perhaps misheard) a lot. Its 'Frankish' and I am fed up of being asked 'how do you spell that?' - how else could you spell it?!?

If pshyrnk's going to drop Procter & Gamble on us then I'll name drop as well The sharp eyed amongst you may have noticed that my avatar is a map of the Frankish Empire. The most famous leader of that empire was Charlemagne, to whom, presumably, I trace my ancestry back to.

Those of you who read Dan Brown will also, no doubt, recall that the Merovingians were also part of the Frankish clan and that it was these who Dan Brown 'proved' were the continuation of Jesus' bloodline.

So, pshrynk, you keep P&G, I'm related to the son of God

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

My last name (Proctor) is a good old English name. There is a branch of the family that settled in the Ohio River Valley a long time ago. One of the sons of that group was a store keeper with a partner named Gamble. They had a really good flaked soap that they sold and decided to go into the distribution business. When the labels came back from the printer, it was misspelled (Procter). Being cheap, they decided to just change his name (Easier to do back in those days). So, now, everyone in the world, when I tell them my name, I have to spell for them Proct OH r. Sheesh.

And did you advise them to use that (so-called) "satanist" logo?
There was such a fuss about it in the 1980s, mostly made by fundamentalists.

[TGS]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

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how is the english city of warwick pronounced ? warrick ?

Yes, Warwich = Warwick
Worcestershire = Woostershere
Slaithwaite = Slough-it
Mousehole = Mouzel

But thankfully, Barnsley, which is God's own country, is just Barnsley!!

[Patricia]

Leicester= Lester
Gloucester=Gloster
Mainwaring=Mannering
and Slough rhymes with cow.