One True Show; British place names

[hmpf]

I've been staying with my parents for the last week (being ill while having to prepare for exams is a good excuse for that sort of thing). Whenever I'm at my parents' my fanvid consumption increases, because absent the internet, this is the easiest 'five minute fandom boost' to get. This reminds me that maybe I should post a reminder to people here about my vidrecs journal, because that's actually active now. Mostly. I may still shut up again for a few weeks, when the exams phase gets hot, but I have several entries already in the pipeline so I should be fine for the next two or three weeks at least.

The other thing increased fanvid consumption reminds me of is that Farscape is and remains the One True Show. Sorry Life on Mars. I may be writing more about you these days, but Farscape will always be closer to my heart - and not just because it didn't so callously break it. (Everyone who knows Farscape knows that Farscape breaks hearts lovingly, not callously.)

Dammit, I need new people to 'scape. Preferably live and in person. Any volunteers? K., maybe? C'mon, you like science fiction, you like sf tv, what could possibly go wrong? *veg*

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Speaking of infecting people with shows - I may have found a new victim for Life on Mars. Time will tell.

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A note to the British: you may want to rethink how you spell and/or pronounce place names. ;-) When I learned, recently, that "Happisburgh" is pronounced "Hazeborough"... well, it did set me to wondering, for about five seconds, if this was all just a bizarre prank you play on us foreigners. I mean... Salisbury... Edinburgh... Worcester... surely you can't be serious? :-D

Comments

[ommadon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a deliberate act of aggression against you *nods* :P

[elliejane.livejournal.com]

Heh. And don't worry, sometimes even WE don't know how to pronounce things. Allesley? Pronounced Alls-lee or Al-lez-lee? Is Fentham pronounced with with a "th" or just a "tee"? Who can tell!

For what it's worth I had no clue about the Happisburgh one!

Happisburgh

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one getting confused! :-D

Happisburgh does not seem to be a very widely known place. It only came to my attention because there's an important archaeological site there; and yesterday I was reminded of it because of something I read in the Guardian about places Britain considers giving up to the sea relatively soon, and Happisburgh is one of those, apparently.

Re: Happisburgh

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and the British Gotham? Isn't pronounced that way at all.

It's Go-tam. Which isn't as bad as Happisburgh, but even so...

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

It's not just the placenames where that happens you know. Think of "Cholmondely" (my spelling might be off, but it's pronounced something like "Chumlee". Bet you wouldn'te have guessed that from looking.

Recently when people mention this, I get that Aeryn quote in my head when she's trying to learn English - along the lines of it should be easy because there's only 26 letters, but then they change. I think it sums up the stupidity of pronunciation of English quite well.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

My favourite place-name story is probably the time Kev met some Americans who wanted to go to High Why Coe Mee. (High Wicombe, pronounced High Wick-um.) ;)

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[(Anonymous)]

Die Aussprache englischer, schottischer und irischer Städte, Landschaften, Berge etc. hat mich schon immer an den Rande des Wahnsinns getrieben. Wer ahnt schon, daß Culloden "Calodden" ausgesprochen wird. Oder alle bereits genannten Beispiele. Allein schon deshalb werde ich nie nach GB oder Irland auswandern, einfach aus Angst, mich lächerlich zu machen, wenn ich nach dem Weg frage;-)
Und Farscape... gib mir Zeit... bis Irgendwann? ...nach der Diss? Für jetzt sofort mußt Du Dir ein anderes Opfer suchen...sorry.