Comments on: Two squibs in reply to other blogs

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:59:09 +0000

Tarry – how I put a tilde on top of an n is to press Alt+0241 on the number pad: Muñoz

By: Tarry

Tarry — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:18:47 +0000

Hi my teachers name is Munoz and has one of these ~ on top. How can i make it go directly on top of the letter? Please i need your help thank you.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:41:34 +0000

John – True, but it occurs in England as well (e.g. the Art Gallery in Newcastle on Tyne)

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:21:05 +0000

Laing is surely a Scots form rather than an English one, corresponding to Long.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:15:57 +0000

I should have been more surprised if John HAD read “Word for Word” – it is intended for non-native learners, and not principally to do with pronunciation.

By: John Wells

John Wells — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:26:05 +0000

OK, I hold my hands up.

By: tomwootton

tomwootton — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:50:54 +0000

Your mention of Shrewsbury reminds me of an article by John Betjeman lightly bemoaning the loss of local pronunciations of places, due to station announcers not knowing how to say them, he then produced a small table of local pronunciations, such as:

Froom (Frome)
Weston-Super-Marry (Weston-Super-Mare)
Daintry (Daventry)

He also noted Hilaire Belloc’s attempt to preserve the local pronunciation of Horsham – Horse-ham.

Not really all that relevant, but mildly diverting I hope.