Re: Trig test

coj <c_o_jones_99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard Bos wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_threepence_coin

Before decimalisation brought in a new penny and new, rather stiff
pronunciations, the sum of three pence was usually pronounced either
"thripp'nce", "thrupp'nce" or "threpp'nce", the distinction perhaps
being geographical. Likewise, the coin was usually referred to in
conversation as a "thripp'ny bit" (or a "thrupp'ny bit", etc.).

So it says thripp'nce first. Nyer nyer.

But that's PikiWedia! They're a USAlien site, you can't expect them to
know anything about proper pronunciations.

Ah, now who is this criticising Wiki on English pronunciation ?
(It must be some midlander or northerner or welsh or scot who can't talk
as proper as like what us Eas Tangulans do, innit).

Richard

lbooyd hell, yer a forner !

Aryus, but a forner who knows the difference between English on t'one
hand, USAlien, Strine and Subcontinental on tother, and English as I was
taught on both my feet.

How do you know what proper English sounds like ?

I listen to Englishpeople speak. I fail to trust foreigners who think
"color" is a word in English.

Besides, I didn't say that PikiWedia are actually _wrong_ in this one
case; just that they can't be trusted to get it right.

Thinks ... you probably speak it better than most of us,

You haven't heard me speak. I don't have an accent in English, I have a
hodge-podge of half-accents desperately trying to find an workable
consensus.

you certainly write it better than a lot of brits, or the bbc
recently come to think of it.

Arwell, the BBC's speeling... and anyhoo, speeling and grammer are easy.

Out of interest Richard how would you pronounce thr*pp'nce ?

Prolly thruppence, but that's because it's how I've seen it spelt. I've
never even seen one in the metal.

Richard
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