Beauchamp is frequently pronounced Beecham over here.
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Originally posted by Stumpy Pepys View PostWell, he's claiming Sweet Marie and Amarillo are pretty. My Texan acquaintance claimed otherwise.
Neil Sedaka happily admitted he'd never been to Amarillo; he just went through the road atlas until he found a town that rhymed with 'pillow'.
Sha la la la la la
Sha la la la la la
Sha la la la la la
When the day is dawning
On a Texas Sunday morning
How I long to be there
With Marie who's waiting for me there
Every lonely city where I hang my hat
Ain't as half as pretty as where my baby's at
Is this the way to Amarillo?
Every night I've been hugging my pillow
Dreaming dreams of Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me
Show me the way to Amarillo
Ive been weeping like a willow
Crying over Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la
Sha la la la la la
And Marie who waits for me
There's a church bell ringing
Hear the song of joy that it's singing
For the sweet Maria
And the guy who's coming to see her
Just beyond the highway
There's an open plane and it keeps me going
Through the wind and rain
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Joey Beauchamp, Oxford United legend and bloke who was a bit of an arse in maths lessons when he sat next to me, also pronounced his name Beecham.
And I've come unstuck many, many times on US pronunciation of French names - for some reason Spanish names are rendered closer to reasonable. Des Moines, Boise, Coeur D'Alenes, New Orleans even. And I'm still not sure about how Americans pronounce Terre Haute.
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Over here even English names get mucked up. Lorn-sess-ton for Tasmania’s version of the Cornish county town.
As for French words, while it’s not a place name the various pronunciations of the word “lingerie” grate on me so much. Not that it’s a word at the forefront of my mind, clearly. I’m assuming the correct pronunciation is lan-jhur-ee with a lovely rolled “r”? Francophones please correct me, as I’ve never heard it spoken by one. But even if I’m wrong I must be closer to the most common Aussie attempt lon-jhur-ay? I’m using “jh” but maybe “zh” is closer, as in courgette.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostIn the 60s, the New York Jets and the then-Boston Patriots of the then-American Football League featured this guy as a quarterback
He pronounced his last name "Tolliver", and his real first name was Myron.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostOh, and are people correct when they pronounce São Paulo “San Paulo”? Surely not.Last edited by Sporting; 13-07-2019, 05:22.
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Originally posted by Sporting View PostWhat is the generally agreed pronunciation - I believe there is some disagreement here - of Pinochet?
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/003900.html
It's a Breton name apparently.
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But we don't have a Llannelli over here.
The Welsh Quaker emigrants who created what would come to be called the Main Line on the edge of Philadelphia seemed to take difficulty of pronunciation into account when choosing place names, My brother and his wife are both graduates of Haverford College, while my sister in law went to Bryn Mawr.
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The best I can do:
I hear a bird, Londonderry bird,
It well may be he's bringing me a cheering word.
I hear a breeze, a River Shanon breeze,
It well may be it's followed me across the seas.
Then tell me please
How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that little brook still leaping there?
Does it still run down to Donny cove?
Through Killybegs, Kilkerry and Kildare?
How are things in Glocca Mora?
Is that willow tree still weeping there?
Does that lassie with the twinklin' eye
Come smilin' by and does she walk away,
Sad and dreamy there not to see me there?
So I ask each weepin' willow and each brook along the way,
And each lass that comes a-sighin' too ra lay
How are things in Glocca Morra this fine day?
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"And the deceptive Hawarden"
Ha, that one was news to me. Glad to learn that before I get stuck into the biography of Gladstone that I have on my reading list
[Edit: For some reason I suddenly got a thing about biographies of British PMs. But I'm not reading them in chronological order, more in order of how interesting or appealing the subjects are. So I'm kicking off with Macmillan (a hugely engaging character with a fascinating life story), second pick will probably be Wilson, and I'll probably read a biog of the witty and charismatic (albeit rather unprincipled) Disraeli before I get on to the pompous and pious WEG. ]Last edited by Evariste Euler Gauss; 13-07-2019, 21:19.
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