Transfers, Decals, and pronounciation of Deckals/Deecals

[Bob G]

A Barkshire is properly pronounced 3H, a late-build Ampshire Unit, or class 205 if you are very very young. They are very different if you are a Thumper enthusiast.

Leema should never be spoken of aloud, unless very drunk.

[Newportnobby]

Memories of Ade Edmondsen in 'Bottom' with the immortal line "Berkshire and Tw*tshire"

[oscar]

Th Yanks have Berkshire county in Massachusetts, they say Berk shire..

[njee20]

But is that berk as in berk, or as in berk?

[Bob G]

Changed the thread name as we are going off the original topic but so far we have done:

Decals - deck-alls 17 votes: Dee-cals 8 votes plus the Oxford and Cambridge Dictionaries, and the original French day-cals (from the original verb decalquer) 2 votes
Lima - Leema (definitely)
Heljan - Elle-ee-an (we think)
Berkshire - Barkshire unless in the US when it is Berk-shire
Solder - soul-der unless in the US when it is sow-der or soh-der
Dapol - undecided as yet (probably in the pipeline)

[middlefour]

I have always called decals transfers, it's what they are!!

[Newportnobby]

I have always called decals transfers, it's what they are!!

Of course. Let's face it, we don't have a football decal market, do we?

[Richard Taylor]

This is the kind of pointless language thread that I love...

One more vote for pronouncing it "dee-cals", although I always call them transfers.  This thread is interesting because in 57 years I have NEVER heard anyone pronounce the word as "deck-alls" - just goes to show.

IIRC, in the USA "Lima" as in the locomotive builder is pronounced "Lye-mah", but as in the capital of Peru is pronounced "Lee-mah".  No idea how they pronounce Lima as in the model railway manufacturer - and how is it pronounced in Lima's native Italy?

The other one that always gets me (briefly mentioned above) is when people pronounce Peco as "Peck-o".  Again IIRC, the name comes from a shortening of the full company title "Pritchard Patent Product Company" which has three initial P's hence "The (3) P Co" -> "Peco", pronounced "Pee-co".

All good fun.

Richard

[jpendle]

The other one that always gets me (briefly mentioned above) is when people pronounce Peco as "Peck-o".  Again IIRC, the name comes from a shortening of the full company title "Pritchard Patent Product Company" which has three initial P's hence "The (3) P Co" -> "Peco", pronounced "Pee-co".
All good fun.

Richard

So what about Piko then?

Is it Pie Co, like Greenhalgh's? (Lancashire joke)

And yet another syllable to conjure with 

John P

[jpendle]

Now how do you pronounce Heljan? Helen? Helian? Helyan?

My, limited, understanding is that Dansk has a harsher sound than Svensk.

There's been an RMWEB thread on this very subject and I think it would be Hell-y-jan, with a long "Hell' and the "y" and the "jan" pronounced almost as one.

But don't forget we get stuff like Bishopsgate from the Nordic word for street (gata), and shopping from 'köping", ............. or do we?

John P

[Newportnobby]

And how on earth is Johnny Foreigner meant to get on with:-

Cholmondley
Mousehole
Kirkudbright
Newtownards
Mainwaring

and that's without any Welsh names

[dannyboy]

And don't forget Keighley!

[Bob G]

This is the kind of pointless language thread that I love...

Its not pointless if you started the thread and its had more responses than any other thread you started!

[jpendle]

And how on earth is Johnny Foreigner meant to get on with:-

Cholmondley
Mousehole
Kirkudbright
Newtownards
Mainwaring

and that's without any Welsh names

I must confess to not knowing Newtownards.

But I do, vaguely, remember drinking beer out a bucket at the Mainwaring Arms near Keele University, when I was at University (of Liverpool not Keele).

But I think you're missing the hardest one.

Featherstonehaugh

Although I sometimes don't even believe that one myself.

Regards,

John P

[Bealman]

And how on earth is Johnny Foreigner meant to get on with:-

Cholmondley
Mousehole
Kirkudbright
Newtownards
Mainwaring

and that's without any Welsh names

They don't like it up em, Captain Mainwaring!

(Stupid bloody spell check on this phone changed that to Captain man-eating!)