Re: [GZG] Full Thrust Lite

[Doug Evans <devans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want a rant about English place names, start with Leicester, or
Worcestershire...

As for Slough, I thought I'd already covered that with 'ghoti'.

The_Beast

Oerjan wrote on 04/21/2008 03:54:40 AM:

> Michael Llaneza wrote:
>
> > >I find Welsh place names *much* easier to pronounce starting from the
> > >spelling than English place names are... the Welsh are decent enough
to
> > >actually adhere to their pronounciation/spelling rules; the English
> > >generally aren't :-p
> >
> >Actually, for a language derived from the attempts of French speaking
> >soldiers to pick up German speaking barmaids, we have remarkably regular
> >rules for pronunciation; it's just that far too many of them come from
> >French.
>
> Although "Slough", though... :-p
>
> (Hint: the placename above does *not* rhyme with the other two words :-/
)
>
> /Oerjan
> orjan.ariander1@xxxxxxxxx
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry
>
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