Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: WEIRD Pronunciation Of Hurricane Name Date: 13 Oct 2026 00:04:18 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <11afkqh$2f5dd$25@dont-email.me> <11aie5u$3g9pi$8@dont-email.me> <11aj81b$3rnu5$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net rN+OxChkoT1Q2yeLMqLsXwYrqurZXRced32+1oiVeRJmE4wDQR Cancel-Lock: sha1:jNttCsc7nn9j8J9Iraes9HqKaac= sha256:dk7lBYbn/7jYEGBEvosdSz/qy6FfUJWVQ+GM7usfFuM= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93552 On Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:14:03 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 12/10/2026 18:44, rbowman wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:52:46 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> They do better if they pronounced it right. >> >> Sorry, your Received Pronunciation carries no weight in this country. A >> better use of your time would be teaching Yorkies to speak something >> recognizable as English. > Yorkies are biscuits - sorry candy. They don't talk much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navigators_(film) Call them what you will but they're unintelligible to someone who learned English in New York State rather than York. Loach prides himself with using authentic local dialects which is fine as long as subtitles are provided.