Wales(Cymru) or Portugal
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I'm just wondering what percentage of CP members can't pronounce "Cymru". I'm betting that the number would start with a lot of nines.
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It would depend a bit on what's acceptable I suppose. If I were to pronounce it like the Toyota, but with the 'R' I' m used to in Sweden, would that get accepted? But I suppose I would be cheating, I've been to Wales.
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It would depend a bit on what's acceptable I suppose. If I were to pronounce it like the Toyota, but with the 'R' I' m used to in Sweden, would that get accepted? But I suppose I would be cheating, I've been to Wales.
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I shall leave it to our man on the spot, Griff, to fill in the details, and only say "Kumbaya Revisited".
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I'm just wondering what percentage of CP members can't pronounce "Cymru". I'm betting that the number would start with a lot of nines.
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Don't worry. He was taken out by the Pronunciation Unit and shot shortly thereafter. There is no excuse for mispronunciation at the Beeb. I once read Donal as Donald in a piece I used to do for Radio Berkshire (in its first incarnation). Fortunately it wasn't live or I might not be here to tell the tale. I still bear the scars. :shiver:
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Ack, the Beeb's had a regional-accent fetish for the past decade or so. Half the presenters talk like they were just let out of borstal.
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Ack, the Beeb's had a regional-accent fetish for the past decade or so. Half the presenters talk like they were just let out of borstal.
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This was actually about 30 or so years ago, as it was on a children's TV show. When my children were of an age, and the eductation experts decided that there was no need to teach anything any more.
Oh, I was caught at just the right time, for the "them who can't" idiots. I could read and write before I went to infant school (not quite as well as I can now, but I got by), but the "them as can't" geniuses decided that that was the year they were going to use ITA, a completely ridiculous not-at-all-phonetic-really written language to teach children to write. I was taken out of the school and packed off to public school, after I took a hand-made Mothers' Day card home that my mother couldn't read. f*****g morons. And I wrote left-handed, before going to school, but they forced me to write right-handed, so my handwriting has always been terrible. f*****g, f*****g morons. The only people more stupid than teachers are their students -- and that's the teachers' fault!
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Oh, I was caught at just the right time, for the "them who can't" idiots. I could read and write before I went to infant school (not quite as well as I can now, but I got by), but the "them as can't" geniuses decided that that was the year they were going to use ITA, a completely ridiculous not-at-all-phonetic-really written language to teach children to write. I was taken out of the school and packed off to public school, after I took a hand-made Mothers' Day card home that my mother couldn't read. f*****g morons. And I wrote left-handed, before going to school, but they forced me to write right-handed, so my handwriting has always been terrible. f*****g, f*****g morons. The only people more stupid than teachers are their students -- and that's the teachers' fault!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
but they forced me to write right-handed
Only one person ever tried that with me, but I politely refused.
But when you're only five years old, you don't realise that teachers are morons, so you do as they tell you.
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I'm just wondering what percentage of CP members can't pronounce "Cymru". I'm betting that the number would start with a lot of nines.
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It's easy to pronounce...uhm... *tap tap tap* *Googling cymru pronunciation* *click* There you go: How to Pronounce Cymru - YouTube[^] :cool:
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But when you're only five years old, you don't realise that teachers are morons, so you do as they tell you.
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Personally, I've always found something sinister about lefties. ;-)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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Personally, I've always found something sinister about lefties. ;-)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
Whereas Dexters are serial killers.
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