threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Over The Hill said:
I suppose there's no such thing as nuggat anymore either...
Canute - is it the new Uranus?
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I suppose there's no such thing as nuggat anymore either...
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
rich p said:
The Alps?
Maizie
Guru
- Location
- NE Hertfordshire
I have told my husband that if we ever had a son, we simply MUST name him C n u t (which the censor won't let me have all joined up), in the good old fashioned spelling.
One of the many reasons we're not intending to have children, I suppose
One of the many reasons we're not intending to have children, I suppose
OP
OP
NickM
Veteran
- Location
- Darwin's birthplace
Cnut
Takes skill, innit?
Takes skill, innit?
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
How about with a K?
****.
No...
I suggest we just stick to Canute. Everyone knows who is meant, and anyone who prefers to refer to **** can just feel historically superior...
Although the one thing most peole get wrong is the whole point of the Canute story. He didn't ever think he could stop the tide - his courtiers were flattering him about his power, and he did it to prove his human falibility and God's ominpotence. But people seem to have got the idea that Canute was a vain man who thought he could hold back the waves..
Much like those people who ignore the signs and park in the tidal zone at Bosham...
****.
No...
I suggest we just stick to Canute. Everyone knows who is meant, and anyone who prefers to refer to **** can just feel historically superior...
Although the one thing most peole get wrong is the whole point of the Canute story. He didn't ever think he could stop the tide - his courtiers were flattering him about his power, and he did it to prove his human falibility and God's ominpotence. But people seem to have got the idea that Canute was a vain man who thought he could hold back the waves..
Much like those people who ignore the signs and park in the tidal zone at Bosham...
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Tell you what Fnaar, by the time you get to the bottom of the page you realise she means it, but unfortunately no canute can tell wtf the she's on about. How did you find that gem? Was it by typing "utter bollocks" into a search engine?Fnaar said:I know, it doesn't workBut it was meant to mildly outrage and amuse
Not as daft as you might think. The original word is the Greek 'Ouranos', which was always pronounced with the stress on the first syllable and a short 'a'.NickM said:
Unlike many European languages, English doesn't like stressing the first syllable of words, and moving the stress to the second syllable naturally makes people pronounce it with a long 'a', maybe making the false derivation with anus.
Another example is homosexual. People assume it's from the Latin, homo, as in Homo Sapiens, so it is pronounced with two long 'os'. In fact although it's a fabricated word, the first part was from the Greek 'homoio' [=same], as in homogeneous, i.e with both 'os' short.
So there.
Just remembered something else. Six-man crew of the Kon-Tiki expedition (cracking adventure book: required teenage reading). They were:
Thor Heyerdahl, Erik Hesselberg, Bengt Danielsson, **** Haugland, Torstein Raaby, Herman Watzinger.
**** is the only survivor of the six (aged 92).
(*hits 'preview'*)
Damn!
Thor Heyerdahl, Erik Hesselberg, Bengt Danielsson, **** Haugland, Torstein Raaby, Herman Watzinger.
**** is the only survivor of the six (aged 92).
(*hits 'preview'*)
Damn!
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Cubist said:Tell you what Fnaar, by the time you get to the bottom of the page you realise she means it, but unfortunately no canute can tell wtf the she's on about. How did you find that gem? Was it by typing "utter bollocks" into a search engine?
I was answering 661-Pete's point, and typed "moving into Scorpio" into google, and that came up
Asking for a slice of 'gatox' in a cake shop I was told the correct pronunciation was in fact 'gat-O'.
I thought she was speaking utter bollo.
When did Boadicea become Boudicca?
Is it Bo-de-see-ah, Boo-di-ka or, as I heard on the radio a while back,Boo-deek-ah?
Come on Arch spill the beans, this should be right up your neck of the avenue.
I thought she was speaking utter bollo.
When did Boadicea become Boudicca?
Is it Bo-de-see-ah, Boo-di-ka or, as I heard on the radio a while back,Boo-deek-ah?
Come on Arch spill the beans, this should be right up your neck of the avenue.
Funny, the book never mentioned that.rich p said:His NickMname was Minge Haugland
It does relate his heroic actions in diving into the stormy waves to rescue a shipmate (raftmate) who'd fallen overboard.
But I suppose the book must have left some things out. Maybe in the translation from the øriginål Nørwegiån....?
