Squibs / Pronunciations of lots of words

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...> wrote:
 
> > Catlady:
> 
> > My recollection of happy old days on the mail list is that 
> > different people (presumably from different parts of Britain) 
> > had different sign-offs:
> 
> > Just my 2p worth
> > just my tuppence worth
> > just my two-penn'orth
> 
> Goddlefrood:
> 
> I did a quick search of main and it seems the latter was used by 
> self, but no other poster, a total of 6 times in slightly differing 
> variants. The other two usages would also be valid. It depends 
> where in the benighted isles one is from. The first one is the 
> decimalised format, for what it's worth.


> > Catlady:
>  
> > Otherwise, in which country did it start and then spread to the 
> > other? And what did it mean? I don't know how to research my 
> > theory that it started as price of a postage stamp, referring 
> > to someone writing a letter to say their tuppence worth, because 
> > in-person, by letter, or publishing printed matter, were the only 
> > means to have one's say.

Geoff:
It's case of the spelling we use.....

I've checked my personal archive of everything I've posted since I joined 
the group in July 2003 and I've used the word "twopennyworth" a total 
of 12 times during that period.

On this question of different spellings and pronunciation, 'herb' and 
'aluminium' came up a few days ago. By chance, I was browsing at 
www.danradcliffe.com last night and watched a few video clips, which 
I don't do very often.

In a very recent interview with Jay Leno on "TheTonight Show", Dan was 
actually asked inter alia about 'herb' and 'aluminium' and 'Jaguar'. I 
wondered whether that is where the impetus to raise them on this 
group came from...