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    MarcusCole6833
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    Wales by a whisker!!

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      Wales by a whisker!!

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      Mark_Wallace
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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.

      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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        Wales by a whisker!!

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        Maximilien
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        Star Trek IV The Voyage Home - Admiral there be whales here! - YouTube[^] :rolleyes:

        I'd rather be phishing!

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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.

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          not the aquatic mammal types, or though that might be more appropriate if they were playing Japan or Norway!

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            Wales by a whisker!!

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            megaadam
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            MarcusCole092076 wrote:

            Wales by a whisker Griffsker!!

            FTFY.

            ... such stuff as dreams are made on

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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.

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              Jorgen Andersson
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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.

              Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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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.

                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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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".

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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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.

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  I once heard a BBC presenter pronounce it "kimroo". :wtf:

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                    I once heard a BBC presenter pronounce it "kimroo". :wtf:

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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:

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                      I once heard a BBC presenter pronounce it "kimroo". :wtf:

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                      Mark_Wallace
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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.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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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.

                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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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.

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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.

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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!

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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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!

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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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.

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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.

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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.

                              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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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.

                                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                Alexander DiMauro
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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:

                                I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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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.

                                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                  Rob Grainger
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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.

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                                    Mark_Wallace
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                                    Whereas Dexters are serial killers.

                                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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