Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > >>> It comes out something like "Chum-lee", with the ch like chicken... >>> >>> (that's what I have heard - but who knows - It may have been >>> a regional dialect, a case of the blind leading the blind, or >>> someone pulling the piss..) >>> >> You have been correctly informed. It's one of the least intuitive names >> in the English language. > > Oh No! - don't tell me there is worse - this is already enough to drive > a saint to drink! > > I will have to move to "Hants"... > Speaking of which, here's a limerick To read it you need to know not only that Hampshire is colloquially know as Hants, but also that Salisbury's ancient Roman name is Sarum.
There once was a young man of Salisbury Whose manners were most halisbury-scalisbury He visited Hampshire Without any pampshire Till somebody told him to walisbury. try-running-a-spell-checker-on-that-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Recent Ramblings http://holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
