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« Reply #315 on: June 28, 2009, 22:45:54 » |
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Sorry I wasn't very clear - announcement was on the platform at Newbury not on train
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« Reply #316 on: June 28, 2009, 22:47:04 » |
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Looks like you made a slight error there Mr Devon_Metro...   Classic! Re: mispronunciations - both Digital Doris and Celia Drummond make gross mispronunciations! I even believe Phil does on occasions... (but far less of course!  ) Who does the Up platform at Newbury? |
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« Reply #317 on: June 28, 2009, 23:17:26 » |
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train manager contact the guard?
can he not talk to himself without an announcement?
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« Reply #318 on: June 29, 2009, 00:45:32 » |
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Not half as irritating as the estuary English of ATW▸ announcements. Why they couldn't have hired an announcer who can pronounce Welsh placenames I don't know. The Welsh language versions aren't read by a Scotsman.  |
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« Reply #319 on: June 29, 2009, 09:59:05 » |
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How about the fact that EVERYONE pronounces Colwall wrong!
Irritates the inhabitants no end.
It should be pronounced Co-el
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« Reply #320 on: June 29, 2009, 11:04:00 » |
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One thing I always appreciate when travelling to Cornwall is hearing the stops pronounced properly by a native speaker, particularly Liskeard, St Austell, Truro, Redruth, St Erth and Penzance.
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« Reply #321 on: June 29, 2009, 14:25:44 » |
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Sorry I wasn't very clear - announcement was on the platform at Newbury not on train
The auto-announcer at Newbury is the same as the one that used to be at Oxford. She was rubbish - she didn't know how to say some stations at all. During Evergreen, when Chiltern were running from Oxford, there was just a long pause for stations to Snow Hill and an 'and' in there just before the final stop which was also silent! She also pronounces some stations as if she's going to say somewhere else after even if it's the final station... Aberdeen for example. |
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« Reply #322 on: June 29, 2009, 14:32:05 » |
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Keynsham - the old Wessex voice calls it "Keen-shum", when as everyone knows (especially if you used to listen to Radio Luxembourg, although that's rather before my time), it should be pronounced "Cane-shum". The other announcers (including the inexplicably-reviled Celia Drummond) get it right though.
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« Reply #323 on: June 29, 2009, 16:08:02 » |
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For those that didn't "get" the last post............... "Keynsham was not spelt as it was pronounced, leaving Mr Batchelor afraid that his army of fans might deluge the Royal Mail with post destined for a non-existent Canesham."http://www.gertlushonline.co.uk/horace-batchelor.html |
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« Reply #324 on: June 29, 2009, 23:16:59 » |
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How about the fact that EVERYONE pronounces Colwall wrong!
Irritates the inhabitants no end.
It should be pronounced Co-el
I'm not sure using dialect pronunciations is a terribly good way to go. For example, in dialect, Slough-it (best approximation I can come up with) is a small town with a station on the national rail network - and it's not west of London. Give up? The station in question is Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield. Broad dialect uses the pronunciation above, while the 'posh' local pronunciation is Slathwaite (the first i is silent) but it's not unusual for BBC» newsreaders in Leeds, not exactly a million miles away and still in Yorkshire, to mispronounce it as Slaythwaite - to the derision of Hudddersfield folk. |
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« Reply #325 on: June 29, 2009, 23:37:17 » |
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Fair point, willc - but announcers using the local pronunciation occasionally can be rather amusing: see http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=4296.msg35800#msg35800  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #326 on: June 29, 2009, 23:49:24 » |
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I assume a similar argument applies to the use of "SWINDON (WILTS)" and "NEWPORT S.WALES" as destinations on tickets. I guess Swindon and Swinton could be easily confused, but there isn't another Newport with an open railway station and I can name at least one other in South Wales that isn't the stop between Cardiff Central and Severn TUnnel Junction...
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« Reply #327 on: June 30, 2009, 00:32:35 » |
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Amusing maybe Chris, but not a lot of use if you don't know the area and such local quirks...
The Swindon (Wilts) is probably more to do with the existence of Swindon (Glos) not all that far away in Cheltenham - and with two other towns of some size called Newport it's surely just common sense, even if the others lack trains nowadays.
In these parts we do occasionally hear about planespotters arriving at Lyneham in west Oxfordshire, who don't realise the RAF▸ base is in the Wiltshire village of the same name.
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« Reply #328 on: June 30, 2009, 00:41:22 » |
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Fair enough, willc!  Hopefully RAF▸ pilots know the difference, though! |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #329 on: June 30, 2009, 03:11:34 » |
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I assume a similar argument applies to the use of "SWINDON (WILTS)" and "NEWPORT S.WALES" as destinations on tickets. I guess Swindon and Swinton could be easily confused, but there isn't another Newport with an open railway station and I can name at least one other in South Wales that isn't the stop between Cardiff Central and Severn TUnnel Junction...
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