[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Speaking 'properly'

[Ladi lyndi]

I, for one, have more than one reason to anticipate July  - first Book 6 and then Accio.  I'm just wondering how many calls I'll get from hubby saying he's about to strangle our daughter.  I said it's a good thing I won't be too far from home in case I have run back to save her - or him.  LOL
 
Having lived in New England,  I don't find most of the pronunciations too strange - after all, England is where most of the names came from.  I still get startled to see the names on the map when we're driving and it throws me when they aren't next to the same town or in the same direction as they are in New England. I've even gotten used to Hertfordshire.  The one name that still cracks me up is Beaconsfield.  I was told very quickly that it is not pronounced Bee-cons-feeld but rather Beck-ons-fell or Beck-on-vell, depending on the person's accent.  LOL
 
I wonder, though, if some of the spellings today are translations from Olde English where the translators couldn't really read the writing?
 
Lynn
 
 
 
Ali <Ali at zymurgy.org> wrote:
But then I also live in a town 
called "Reading" which is pronounced as "Redding" - apparently after 
people with Red hair invaded the area centuries and centuries ago. The 
current spelling makes no sense at all - unless you want to use it as 
a play on words with the verb "to read".

Ali

Summoning everyone to Accio in Reading, Berkshire, UK in July 2005 
http://www.accio.org.uk

 

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