On 26/04/2011 12:27, David Tubbs wrote:
At 10:26 26/04/2011 +0100, you wrote:
Oh tell me about it,my surname Waugh, pronounced in Scotland as in
Scots Loch, not Wao, War, Woff or even weirder.
Some 60yrs ago I knew a Geordie of your name,spoken of as Billy Yuff.
Well I was born in Dumfrieshire, but have lived within fifteen (and now
fifty) miles from Newcastle for the last 60 years, so consider myself an
adopted Geordie.
I'll ad Yuff to the list, strangest is on my Boots loyalty card, I'm Mr
wausu, sounds like I should be a prince of some African nation.
Anyway on this list we should know what trouble an errant Q can cause (;-)
When Evekyn wrote his autobiography a cartoon in Private Eye -
Little boy at his father's knee "What did you do in the Waugh Daddy ?"
|As is usually the case with "ch" as in Scheveningen.
|A sound used often in Dutch and used as a test for native "Dutchness".
And Germanness if you can pronounce squirrel, oak-chick, Eichhörnchen
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