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......and I thought it was just for Puffins!!!! (1 Viewer)

CalvinFold said:
Color. Colour.
Aluminum. Aluminium
Etc. |:D|
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...but not Plutonum, unless GWB added it to the healthy stock of Bushisms, one prominent utterance being nucular...;)

Yes I know we have 'Gloster', 'Lester' and here in Norfolk such traps as 'Cossey', but that's just to whet (not actually pronounced 'wet' except by native English speakers who had misguided teachers) your appetite for linguistic oddities...:t:
MJB
PS I'll give you 'color', because deluded purists thought that a French affectation was cool...
 
MJB said:
...but not Plutonum, unless GWB added it to the healthy stock of Bushisms, one prominent utterance being nucular...;)

Yes I know we have 'Gloster', 'Lester' and here in Norfolk such traps as 'Cossey', but that's just to whet (not actually pronounced 'wet' except by native English speakers who had misguided teachers) your appetite for linguistic oddities...:t:
MJB
PS I'll give you 'color', because deluded purists thought that a French affectation was cool...
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There was a thread a while back on the pronunciation of Whooper Swan and it would seem that our fellow inhabitants of this island pronounce it either wooper or hooper and are amazed that some of us can pronounce it correctly.
 
david kelly said:
There was a thread a while back on the pronunciation of Whooper Swan and it would seem that our fellow inhabitants of this island pronounce it either wooper or hooper and are amazed that some of us can pronounce it correctly.
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Aye! Wha's like us? Damn few, an' they're a' deid...o:D
MJB
 
In the German district north of where I live, nature reserves have signs in German and Dutch. On one of them, Common Teal has been translated as "Yellow-billed Teal". You'd think that the Dutch name ("Chilitaling") would have been enough to warn them something was wrong...

In the Moselle Valley, I found a brochure in English which mentioned "Sail Butterflies" (a literal translation of the German name of Scarce Swallowtail).
 
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