On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 22:18 +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Friday 30 July 2021 at 22:04:28, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 07:13:43PM +0100, Rowland Penny via Dng
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This is sort of what I was getting at, English is a language that
> > > changes over time, unfortunately not all English speaking nations
> > > keep
> > > up, for instance, this is the correct English way to spell
> > > 'colour', it
> > > certainly isn't 'color'. We also have a habit of having letters
> > > in
> > > words that we do not pronounce, 'pterosaur' for instance :-)
> >
> > But it's *fun* pronouncing both the p and the t.
>
> Who in their right mind would pronounce the 't' in that :) ?

Just about everyone in England, it is the 'p' that you do not
pronounce. Unless you are actually referring to the 'that' on the end
of your sentence, in which case 'ha' :-D

>
>
> German pronounces all the letters in a word, in as consistent a way
> as
> possible.

They would.

>
> French pronounces as few of the letters in a word as it can get away
> with.

Terrible language, we stole the best parts of their language.

>
> English pronounces most, but not all, of the letters in a word, in as
> many
> different ways as possible.

How about the name 'Cholmondeley ' which is pronounced 'Chumley'

Rowland