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Gibbs505 said:
Somewhere in south america I believe!
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Twonines was correct. St. Louis, USA in 1904. It was once a great city. In 1904 it was the 4th largest city in the US, Until the 1950 census, the eighth-largest city in the country.
 
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Praefectus Praetorio said:
Twonines was correct. St. Louis, USA in 1904. It was once a great city. In 1904 it was the 4th largest city in the US, Until the 1950 census, the eighth-largest city in the country.
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Traffic there is terrible. Every time I borrow Tree’s Mustang someone there forces me off the road!
 
Loxuru said:
I guess, that's why Lindbergh named his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis", when he crossed the Atlantic in 1927?
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"Spirit of St. Louis" was named in honor of Lindbergh's supporters in St. Louis, Missouri, the Members of the St. Louis Racquet Club, who paid for the aircraft.
 
Barbaria1 said:
"Spirit of St. Louis" was named in honor of Lindbergh's supporters in St. Louis, Missouri, the Members of the St. Louis Racquet Club, who paid for the aircraft.
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Another Olympic myth to the scrapyard.:roto2cafe:


Something completely different.:attention:

This afternoon, ar 16:09 pm CEST, I got from @malins my 50.000th like :enamorado:(50.000 x thanks for all of them).:beer-toast1:

Let's remain humble.:worship2:

If I ever would make it to the exclusive +100K club, I just started from zero again, today.:confused:
 
Loxuru said:
Another Olympic myth to the scrapyard.:roto2cafe:


Something completely different.:attention:

This afternoon, ar 16:09 pm CEST, I got from @malins my 50.000th like :enamorado:(50.000 x thanks for all of them).:beer-toast1:

Let's remain humble.:worship2:

If I ever would make it to the exclusive +100K club, I just started from zero again, today.:confused:
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Congratulations! :ole:
 
John Delves Richardson said:
A Chaos, indeed
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Okay, I stopped the video whenever a new screen came on,
said the words first,
and then pressed continue to see what the pronunciation is supposed to be
-- writing down the ones I missed.

Sometimes the rhymes helped and would indicate an unexpected pronunciation, that I wouldn't have guessed if the word stood alone.
I think I did fairly well for a non native speaker - there were a few screens where I got them all ... but well, at some point it did degenerate into chaos.
 
malins said:
Okay, I stopped the video whenever a new screen came on,
said the words first,
and then pressed continue to see what the pronunciation is supposed to be
-- writing down the ones I missed.

Sometimes the rhymes helped and would indicate an unexpected pronunciation, that I wouldn't have guessed if the word stood alone.
I think I did fairly well for a non native speaker - there were a few screens where I got them all ... but well, at some point it did degenerate into chaos.
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In English the written language has diverged from the spoken, which is to say we spell words like they were pronounced around 1400. And why we teach spelling as a separate subject for the first eight grades of primary education, and have "Spelling Bees." :eeek:

The painting below depicts one of those, and is titled "Cousin Reginald Spells Peloponnesus." ;)
 

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malins said:
Okay, I stopped the video whenever a new screen came on,
said the words first,
and then pressed continue to see what the pronunciation is supposed to be
-- writing down the ones I missed.

Sometimes the rhymes helped and would indicate an unexpected pronunciation, that I wouldn't have guessed if the word stood alone.
I think I did fairly well for a non native speaker - there were a few screens where I got them all ... but well, at some point it did degenerate into chaos.
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In some circles,certain surnames have unusual pronunciations,viz,Cholmondeley = Chumley, Featherstonehaugh =Feeston.and Mainwareing=Mannering
 
twonines said:
In some circles,certain surnames have unusual pronunciations,viz,Cholmondeley = Chumley, Featherstonehaugh =Feeston.and Mainwareing=Mannering
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Seriously as a foreigner I would feel no shame at mispronouncing things like that - family names and placenames. I know about basic stuff like Arkansas and Connecticut and Leicester and so forth but at some point ... if you have never heard these spoken you just can't guess.
 
malins said:
Seriously as a foreigner I would feel no shame at mispronouncing things like that - family names and placenames. I know about basic stuff like Arkansas and Connecticut and Leicester and so forth but at some point ... if you have never heard these spoken you just can't guess.
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Immigrants into English-speaking countries do have it tough (there's a word that doesn't spell at all like it sounds).

 
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