YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011

[ranunculus]

Please follow this link and be amazed ...

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

[Peter Maguire]

Wonderful landscapes and flora. Now we know why Frazer is so enthuastiastic about the place.
It's such a shame that it's in such a politcally unstable area - part of Yemen yet close to Somalia. 

[Anthony Darby]

Those dragon trees (Dracaena cinnabari) are amazing, but of quite an age. D. draco from Tenerife is grown in abundance in Auckland. I have grown small Adenium obesum back in Scotland, but these must also be years old? Dendrosicyos socotrana must be the weirdest though?

[Paddy Tobin]

DRAWRINGS!

Referring back to the discussion on pronunciation  previously, I am presently watching the lunchtime BBC News where there was an article about an exhibition of works by Leonaro daVinci with several presenters/reporters mentioning his DRAW RINGS. I'm sure these really are his drawings.

This is a pronunciation which irritates  me.

Paddy

[ranunculus]

DRAWRINGS!

Referring back to the discussion on pronunciation  previously, I am presently watching the lunchtime BBC News where there was an article about an exhibition of works by Leonaro daVinci with several presenters/reporters mentioning his DRAW RINGS. I'm sure these really are his drawings.

This is a pronunciation which irritates  me.

Paddy

It's not as if he designed the Olympic flag is it, Paddy?   

[Paddy Tobin]

But, is "draw rings" the common pronunciation?

And, if so, why?

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

Oh, I  liked the photographs in the link above, by the way. V. interesting trees.

Paddy

[Darren]

Have given up on the above link - sounds interesting but browser doesn't like it. Will try from the Mac later.

My equivalent of 'draw-rings' is the mis-spelling 'light-e-ning'. Used in reference to the meteorological phenomenon - not Michael Jackson's skin care products.

When my workplace was based in a particularly lightning prone building I got tired of reading reports from scientists educated to PhD level who could not get it right.

[Maggi Young]

But, is "draw rings" the common pronunciation?

Sadly, it is the common mispronounciation, perhaps more often heard in England.  The Scots are not quite so guilty of that error.

But, is "draw rings" the common pronunciation?
And, if so, why?

Why?  Ignorance, she said, grumpily.

[Gerry Webster]

Have given up on the above link - sounds interesting but browser doesn't like it. Will try from the Mac later.

My equivalent of 'draw-rings' is the mis-spelling 'light-e-ning'. Used in reference to the meteorological phenomenon - not Michael Jackson's skin care products.

When my workplace was based in a particularly lightning prone building I got tired of reading reports from scientists educated to PhD level who could not get it right.

Educated? These days?

[Martinr]

Sadly, if you consult the OED pronunciation guide you will find the w pronounced wr is actually given as the correct pronunciation for some words. It's clearly an accent thing which becomes more prevalent the further south east you go. The one that drives me mad is Lorr, as in the long arm of

Time we transferred this to the moan, moan page as it's falling behind on posts!

[Maggi Young]

Good grief... in the OED?  What is the world coming to.... and you mention, Martin, another of my pet hates... the repeated references to some woman by the name of Laura Norder  SCREAM!!!!!



Yes, I'm so happy we can moan about this stuff!

[TC]

The one that annoys me, (among others), is be-kizz for because.

[Anthony Darby]

There are some good Scottish ones: modrun fillums (OK, from The Isles, perhaps) and pew-miss for modern films and pumice come to mind.

[Paddy Tobin]

Darren,

Your "lightening" would be quite common here, a habit brought over from Irish where a "guta cúnta", a "helping vowel" is part of the spoken language. Half-past seven would often be heard as "half a past seven".

Anthony's "fillum" is also commonplace; as is farum and the likes.

I suppose variations in pronunciation are to be expected but the drawrings still irritates me. I'll have to live with it, I suppose.

Paddy