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One more time...

This would be classified as a long shot, but I had an email read out on Mark and Lard’s Radio 1 show on 29th September 1998 and I didn’t hear it. I only knew it was read out when I saw this usenet post:

https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.radio.radcliffe/c/qxQN8J-EFs4/m/WjJRWfXLH3gJ

I know some people have archive recordings of radio shows, so...

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Elections 2019

Gary McEwan posted:
Alex Plain-Later posted:
It's one of those infuriating "inbred posh people" things. (Let's ignore what sounds certain letters of the English language are actually supposed to make, and pronounce this name in a way that is at odds with the letters that are actually sodding well there) Rolling Eyes Thumbs down

It's a bit like when "St. John" is pronounced "Sin-Jun" (as if having a middle name that is prefixed with "St." isn't bizarre enough anyway, regardless of pronunciation!) "Sin-Jun's Ambulance", anyone?

I might start insisting that "David" is pronounced "Sebastian", or something...


It's not posh at all...it's just a Scottish thing.


And it was previously spelt Menȝies, it’s just that “ȝ” (the letter yogh) doesn’t exist in English (or Scots) any more and has been replaced by “z” in spelling.