[Mgs] Common Language

[R. Martin Rogovein]

Hey, that ain't too far from New Ulm, prounounced Nwullum.

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Upon discovering that Miles Black, the famous phrenologist
from Yorkshire was going to take up yodeling to lonely goats
in Bali, James White decided to balance four planks of wood
on a beer keg and call it an abstract work of art in the style
of a famous fourteenth-century architect, just going to prove
that people will read any old garbage if they think there will
be a good pun at the end of it.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles & Peggy Robinson" <ccrobins at ktc.com>
To: "Rod Williams" <PRNDL at sonic.net>
Cc: "MG LIST" <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Common Language


>   Shucks, it happens here in TX.  There's a lake spelled Buchanon maybe
> 50 miles north of Kerrville, where I live.  It's pronounced Buck-cannon
> by the locals.  Go figure.....  Pretty country, makes a nice MGB ride &
> picnic.
>
>    CR
>
>
> Rod Williams wrote:
> > On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Simon Matthews wrote:
> >
> >> who told you that English was written phonetically? They were wrong.
> >
> > A number of years ago while working in the South of England, I had a day
> > off to myself and decided to drive to the British Motor Museum. It is
> > located in Beaulieu, Hampshire. For years I had worked with a brand of
> > French motion picture camera spelled the same, which was always
> > pronounced "Bo-Lew". Of course, I got lost driving to the museum but
> > knew I was very close. Several times I stopped to ask the locals where
> > "Bo-Lew" was and was met with blank stares. Finally, I asked where
> > "Bo-Lew" was "you know, where the Motor Museum is". The local laughed
> > and responded "oh, you're looking for "Bu-Lee"" I have never, never
> > asked how "Beaulieu" became "Bu-Lee" and I never will. The museum was
> > fantastic.
> > -- 
> > Rod Williams
> > Petaluma, California
> > 1967 MGB
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