OT-Happy St. Andrew's Day
Nov 29, 2006, 3:26 am
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OT-Happy St. Andrew's Day
To our Scottish FT friends---a very Happy St. Andrew's Day (I know it is tomorrow, not today) and best wishes for the remainder of the year.
Nov 29, 2006, 3:57 am
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Originally Posted by etch5895
To our Scottish FT friends---a very Happy St. Andrew's Day (I know it is tomorrow, not today) and best wishes for the remainder of the year.
Well if we want to get our greetings in early why not Merry Christmas!
Nov 29, 2006, 4:11 am
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Originally Posted by Smirnoff
And a gentle reminder that this is now the London Airways forum, so could all our Scottish friends remember that they are foriegn guests from now on. 
And please restrict their postings to the English language! (Or Latin.)
Nov 29, 2006, 4:17 am
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Originally Posted by aristoph
And please restrict their postings to the English language! (Or Latin.) And their "national airline" website proudly annouces that it is "operated by Greece Airways"
Nov 29, 2006, 4:36 am
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Originally Posted by Smirnoff
And a gentle reminder that this is now the London Airways forum, so could all our Scottish friends remember that they are foriegn guests from now on.
Nov 29, 2006, 4:45 am
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Originally Posted by Smirnoff
And a gentle reminder that this is now the London Airways forum, so could all our Scottish friends remember that they are foriegn guests from now on.
If, as featured in the UK press in recent days, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were to break up into separate entities of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, would British Airways feel compelled to rename itself?
I just did a check - there already exists an englishairways.co.uk web-site. Nothing to do with BA though.
Nov 29, 2006, 4:51 am
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Originally Posted by Smirnoff
as well as an exception to the normal rules about pronouncing the letter "G" ?
I thought the rule was that G before N in the same syllable is not pronounced.
eg feign, gnaw, gnocchi, and to bring it back OT, "gnib", which describes how best to present yourself if hoping for an upgrade.
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Nov 29, 2006, 5:02 am
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Originally Posted by James S
eg feign, gnaw, gnocchi, and to bring it back OT, "gnib", which describes how best to present yourself if hoping for an upgrade.
Nov 29, 2006, 5:19 am
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Originally Posted by James S
I thought the rule was that G before N in the same syllable is not pronounced.
Nov 29, 2006, 5:21 am
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Originally Posted by Smirnoff
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Nov 29, 2006, 5:34 am
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Originally Posted by Smirnoff
But I can see you are talking about a gnu, another example of a silent G. Though as Aristoph points out words taken directly from other languages, in gnu's case Hottentot, can be the subject of debate re pronounciation.
Sorry really OT now, but I wonder if there any words with "gn" where the G is pronounced, ie the proverbial exception to the rule?