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geordie
Tol Eressea
May 25 2012, 8:42pm
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- I was listening to a taped interview of his today. He pronounced 'mythology' as my-thology, and 'myth' as 'mithe'. Odd. And of course the plural of dwarf is dwarfs.
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imin
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May 25 2012, 10:04pm
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I posted that just a page ago in the thread? lol/
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kiwifan
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May 25 2012, 10:14pm
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But at least these are legitimate spellings in American English
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and not blatant misuses of language by people who clearly didn't think about, or didn't even know, what the words they've written actually mean. What really pains me, literally, the way being forced to listen to wrong notes makes a musician flinch, is when people in a position of teaching language/literature, commit really heinous crimes of language abuse. I remember reading a really bad one about half a year ago:
'... we were a boat askance in the middle of the Atlantic'.
Ouch, that really hurt. Askance??? I even checked my Oxford Thesaurus of English in case I might be wrong, but no. How could anyone confuse 'askance' with 'adrift'? And a highschool literature teacher at that? I was so tempted to fire off a hasty post but realised it wouldn't be any use as the perpetrator of this outrage was no longer among the living, and therefore desisted. However, I did wonder whether anyone else had noticed it at all!
'Goodness gracious, you really are a messie!' 'Oh no, I'm not, these are all just mathoms...'
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DanielLB
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May 25 2012, 11:12pm
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Askance means to dissaprove doesn't it? How on earth did they mix that up with adrift?! That is very strange 
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DanielLB
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May 25 2012, 11:14pm
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At school I had been taught to say it has "fon". Needless to say, I was quickly ridiculed at university and soon learned to pronounce it as "fern". 
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Starling
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May 25 2012, 11:17pm
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Just do what we do here in NZ and say
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'Nor' Wester'. That's much easier to pronounce. 
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DanielLB
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May 25 2012, 11:20pm
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I've managed to fit that into my literature review ;-)
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Also known as the zonda (South American Andes) and the berg wind (South Africa)!
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Xanaseb
Tol Eressea
May 25 2012, 11:34pm
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me no readz the whole thredz 
Catch it, catch it, catch it! Dropped it... ...
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Starling
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May 26 2012, 12:12am
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"that *%*#@!!! Nor' wester" as my Mum called it. 
Your research sounds fascinating. I would love to read it when it's all done.
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JWPlatt
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May 26 2012, 12:32am
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Only if you speak it with a British or Australian accept and leave off the consonant ('h') sound ("'otel), mate.
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Ataahua
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May 26 2012, 12:53am
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I was just about to post that alternative name. :D
I haven't experienced that wind but going by the comments I've heard about it, I don't think I want to!
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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dernwyn
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May 26 2012, 1:41am
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To pronounce "föhn" properly, you've got to make the shape of "o" with your mouth, but say "ee" through it. That's an umlaut-o, also spelled "oe". And it does have the whisper of an "r" sound, but you're not really pronouncing an "r".
Just say it like you do schön in danke schön. Easy enough, right?
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"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
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DanielLB
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May 26 2012, 6:26am
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If I ever discover anything new or interesting
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I'll be sure to let everyone know! I've only just started it really, long time to go yet 
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DanielLB
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May 26 2012, 6:29am
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You'll have to record it for me
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You have me sitting at my laptop trying to say foehn/föhn several ways!!
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DanielLB
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May 26 2012, 6:29am
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Anybody that says 'otel needs speech lessons ;-) /
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geordie
Tol Eressea
May 26 2012, 7:00am
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- actually, I'm English born and bred, and I don't drop my 'h's. Not many of us English folk do that; no more than Americans call each other 'pardner'.
Mind you, I rarely use the phrase 'an historic event'. and hardly ever 'an hotel'. I think that would seem affected (in the proper sense of the word - that is, not 'effected' ) Such usage is taught in 'posh' schools, not the sort of school I went to.
I think there's an historical reason for this usage. Another one involves the words 'which' and what'. I don't pronounce the 'h' in either of these words, but some educated folk I know do. I think it comes from way back; in Anglo-Saxon we have the word 'Hwaet' for example, in which the 'h' is sounded in front of the 'w'.
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geordie
Tol Eressea
May 26 2012, 7:23am
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I looked askance at that mis-usage
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- it's a Malapropism, isn't it? Named after Mrs Malaprop, a fictitious character famous for using the wrong words in an attempt to sound knowledgable, or well - educated. To give another example; some time ago during a bit of friendly banter on another site someone described me and another member as 'erstwhile members'. Kindly meant, no doubt. I pointed out that 'erstwhile' means 'formerly' - so, the sentence meant that my friend and I were once members of that forum, but no longer. Turns out she'd meant 'esteemed', or possibly 'estimable'.
Another friend on that site; an American philologist studying over here in the UK, said that this piece of mis-usage is fairly common in the US. Seems odd to me; but then, as Tolkien once remarked (in an entirely different context) 'Perhaps the Americans would like them?' [ie, his paintings for TH]
'Odd folk'.
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imin
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May 26 2012, 7:35am
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You need to come to yorkshire then!
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I'm not originally from Yorkshire so i dont drop the h either so it did sound really strange to me that people did. literally all native sheffield folk do from my 6 years spent here. They also say love and duck to everyone which again the first couple of times a mature man says thanks love to you, its a little odd, haha.
But then im from cumbria where people say yan tan tethera for 123, lol.
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DanielLB
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May 26 2012, 8:08am
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I think duck is common across the country. I know people down south (and not born up north) who say duck. Love is problem quite common everywhere as well
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Starling
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May 26 2012, 9:10am
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I am sure it will eventually arrive...
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...precisely when it means to.
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imin
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May 26 2012, 10:12am
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not as common as one might think.
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Im not sure how often they say duck the people down south but its definitely part of the derbyshire dialect which i guess must have spread (had to look it up to make sure it wasnt just what locals have told me!), though i never heard it until i came south to sheffield.
As for love i have heard old women say it etc but its not used in quite the same way as it is in sheffield, which is by literally everyone! Again its just a part of sheffield's own dialect.
Both not a patch on cumbrian obviously, which has different dialects depending on which valley you are in! as in 6 to me is sethera but only a few miles away 6 is teezie! Anyone say inbred? haha (its ok im one of them!)
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sherlock
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May 26 2012, 10:25am
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but as someone who knows the difference between their, there, & they're and all the other common mistakes but,doesn't always use the proper ones in their postings it can also be kind of annoying. No offense to the clever word police out there! My best friend is an editor & she loves this stuff! I also enjoy it and hope it will help me get it right in the future.
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dernwyn
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May 26 2012, 12:07pm
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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geordie
Tol Eressea
May 26 2012, 12:33pm
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DanielLB
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May 26 2012, 1:50pm
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It's probably not *that* common, but heard a couple of people say it
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