"How fast can we build a railway station?"

eightonedee

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« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2019, 22:02:04 »

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Quote from: eightonedee on February 08, 2019, 10:52:37 pm
Cholsey
Just wondering, because I'm never sure, how do you say this?

The "o" is long - like the "o" in "old"


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« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2019, 22:46:30 »

Thanks! I was wrong about that and it wasn't even the bit I was wondering about. Is the Ch soft like church or hard like chemistry?


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« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2019, 22:45:24 »

..soft like "church"!


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« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2019, 06:44:49 »

Quote from: eightonedee on February 19, 2019, 22:45:24

..soft like "church"!

But named after an island (ey, eye, eyot, øy, å) belonging to Old King Cole (Ceol), who was - as we all know - a merry old soul ...


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« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2019, 09:30:07 »

Quote from: Oxonhutch on February 20, 2019, 06:44:49

Quote from: eightonedee on February 19, 2019, 22:45:24

..soft like "church"!

But named after an island (ey, eye, eyot, øy, å) belonging to Old King Cole (Ceol), who was - as we all know - a merry old soul ...

... but not, I think, a Greek one (soul or island).

Are there any names, or words, of English origin that have a hard ch? Apart from a few from other languages, pronounced as found on arrival, they do all seem to be from Greek. Even chemistry, which arrived from Arabic, was Greek before it had "al-" agglutinated to it.


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Bmblbzzz

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« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2019, 11:22:59 »

Quote from: Oxonhutch on February 20, 2019, 06:44:49

Quote from: eightonedee on February 19, 2019, 22:45:24

..soft like "church"!

But named after an island (ey, eye, eyot, øy, å) belonging to Old King Cole (Ceol), who was - as we all know - a merry old soul ...

Thank you, that's very interesting.

And the non-Greek hard ch is worth a think too.


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« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2019, 16:10:14 »

Quote from: eightonedee on February 08, 2019, 22:52:37

At the other end of the spectrum - does anyone know why it is taking so long to complete the extension of the platforms between Tilehurst and Cholsey to accommodate 8 coach trains? Nothing seems to have happened for ages, but most seem nearly finished.

Perhaps no-one has worked out how to switch off the announcements on Electrostars that only doors in coaches 1-7 will open at these stations?

A couple of my friends have been caught out by doors on coach 8 not opening. One had her earphones on and didn't hear the announcements but managed to scoot up into Coach 7 and get off. Another failed to emerge from the train and when I phoned her I got a certain amount of invective: there were no warnings she claimed (which I doubt), "no one on the train" to ask, and she didn't know where it was going. For once in my life I was masterful: "Don't worry, dear. In two minutes' time the train will stop at Pangbourne and there'll be one back to Tilehurst in 20 minutes. Or I'll even come and collect you from Pangbourne" - which I did.

The platform extensions remain unfinished.

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