Re: Ada Lovelace

From	Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Ada Lovelace
Date	2024-07-17 17:22 +0100
Organization	TLP
Message-ID	<5b81f30d13dave@triffid.co.uk> (permalink)
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In article <20240717161436.375a378f@devuan>,
   Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:00:16 +0100
> Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> wrote:

> >On 17/07/2024 10:54 am, Harriet Bazley wrote:
> >> 
> >> "Ardour" with a long A, surely?  
> >
> >Nope. That sound doesn't really exist in Czech I think. The unstressed 
> >"u" is also missing, and that's very widely used in English, as the 
> >terminal schwa sound. We don't say "lett-er" or "butt-er", we say 
> >"let-uh" and "but-uh".
> >
> >My wife struggles terribly to make "butter" and "batter" sound 
> >different; she says them as the same sound.
> >
> >"Ada" is "ADD-ah" not "ADD-uh", and no, never ever "ARD-ah" or anything 
> >similar.
> >
> >
> The 'Ay' sound is physically harder to make than just 'A' of 'Ah', so
> maybe some people are just lazy :P {ducks and runs for cover, weaving
> erratically to avoid missiles}

Mnnn! When I wrote my original Q it was the Yanks who were mangling the
name, and no doubt others from other places would do the same, as they do
with many "Engrish" words.

(That's the nicest way I can put it) (Alf Garnett's epithet would be
better, but these are different times ;-) )

In my life, now well into dotage, I have met a few old ladies called Ada
and it was never ever pronounced Adder.  :-)

Dave

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Dave Triffid

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  Re: Ada Lovelace Chris Newman <mec@npost.uk> - 2024-05-22 13:28 +0100
    Re: Ada Lovelace David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2024-06-04 21:01 +0100
      Re: Ada Lovelace Chris Newman <mec@npost.uk> - 2024-06-04 23:06 +0100
  Re: Ada Lovelace Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> - 2024-07-16 18:14 +0100
    Re: Ada Lovelace Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2024-07-17 10:54 +0100
      Re: Ada Lovelace Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> - 2024-07-17 16:00 +0100
        Re: Ada Lovelace Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2024-07-17 16:14 +0100
          Re: Ada Lovelace Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2024-07-17 17:22 +0100
            Re: Ada Lovelace Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2024-07-17 21:15 +0000
              Re: Ada Lovelace Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> - 2024-07-18 11:12 +0100
            Re: Ada Lovelace Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> - 2024-07-18 10:13 +0100
              Re: Ada Lovelace Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2024-07-18 22:15 +0000
                Re: Ada Lovelace Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2024-07-19 10:32 +0100
                Re: Ada Lovelace Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2024-07-19 19:25 +0100
              Re: Ada Lovelace druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2024-08-05 21:17 +0100
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