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« Reply #60 on: May 14, 2012, 12:26:56 PM » |
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I have a really stupid question to ask. I haven't visited Marblehead yet, but can you tell me how the locals pronounce it? This is something I argue about all the time. Is it something like: "Mahble-head"?
Hahaha well it's pronounced exactly as it looks--i.e. Marble-Head--whether or not you hear the R is entirely up to the person who's saying it Clay |
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T. Kelly Lee
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« Reply #61 on: May 14, 2012, 02:39:55 PM » |
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I have a really stupid question to ask. I haven't visited Marblehead yet, but can you tell me how the locals pronounce it? This is something I argue about all the time. Is it something like: "Mahble-head"?
Hahaha well it's pronounced exactly as it looks--i.e. Marble-Head--whether or not you hear the R is entirely up to the person who's saying it Clay Damn it! I wanted it to be silly and New England-y. Of course in my Texas it comes out as "Marable Hayd." So there you go. |
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« Reply #62 on: May 14, 2012, 03:51:56 PM » |
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Damn it! I wanted it to be silly and New England-y. Of course in my Texas it comes out as "Marable Hayd." So there you go.
If it's any consolation, in highschool I had a history teacher who pronounced the nearby town of Gloucester as "Glaw-chester," much to the amusement of our class who, of course, pronounce it "Glaw-ster" |
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« Reply #63 on: May 14, 2012, 04:00:30 PM » |
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Damn it! I wanted it to be silly and New England-y. Of course in my Texas it comes out as "Marable Hayd." So there you go.
If it's any consolation, in highschool I had a history teacher who pronounced the nearby town of Gloucester as "Glaw-chester," much to the amusement of our class who, of course, pronounce it "Glaw-ster" Oh, yeah, that's how we'd say it back home as well. |
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« Reply #64 on: May 14, 2012, 04:05:10 PM » |
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Damn it! I wanted it to be silly and New England-y. Based on my previous knowledge of New England place-name spelling conventions, the "New Englandy" pronunciation of "Marblehead" would be something like "gor-FLAP-ington." |
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« Reply #65 on: May 15, 2012, 02:41:53 PM » |
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Damn it! I wanted it to be silly and New England-y. Based on my previous knowledge of New England place-name spelling conventions, the "New Englandy" pronunciation of "Marblehead" would be something like "gor-FLAP-ington." Come now, everyone knows Gorflappington is way west of boston! |
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« Reply #66 on: July 23, 2012, 03:58:24 PM » |
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I thought Gorflappington was a ghoting village, not so? (fishing, gh=f as in tough, o=i as in women, t=sh as in nation)
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #67 on: July 24, 2012, 09:24:16 PM » |
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Damn it! I wanted it to be silly and New England-y. Based on my previous knowledge of New England place-name spelling conventions, the "New Englandy" pronunciation of "Marblehead" would be something like "gor-FLAP-ington." It's spelled Marblehead but its pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove." |
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« Reply #68 on: July 25, 2012, 07:21:53 AM » |
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Arthur Smokestoomuch better cut back, I don't get it.
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« Reply #69 on: July 26, 2012, 11:50:53 AM » |
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I do live in Lovecraft country, Red Hook, Brooklyn. It was horrible from a certain perspective when I moved here 11 years ago (roving packs of wild dogs, junkies everywhere, lots of abandoned buildings and factories...) But I loved it. Now we have a giant gourmet supermarket, ikea, reasturants I cant afford to eat at and alot more crime, due to the influx of folks who can be crime victims. I still get creeped out by the old stone church, built in 1845, it's where the "party" took place in the story. (i think). http://www.facebook.com/VBVMChurchI would love to visit Antarctica, especially with those cool airplanes! |
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« Reply #70 on: July 26, 2012, 05:36:59 PM » |
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My wife and I honeymooned in Boston and Cape Cod and I'd go back in a heart beat. And happily do the rest of New England as well. I suppose if I was to nail it down, I'd pick Maine next. But I think that might be more King country, than HPL.
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« Reply #71 on: August 01, 2012, 03:01:45 PM » |
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I'd do Leng ... with an oxygen mask.
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« Reply #72 on: August 01, 2012, 03:44:03 PM » |
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Do the Dreamlands count? Because I'd live in Ulthar. Peaceful, lovely, and full of kitties.
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« Reply #73 on: August 01, 2012, 03:47:10 PM » |
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Do the Dreamlands count? Because I'd live in Ulthar. Peaceful, lovely, and full of kitties.
Yeah, that might be nice. Just don't piss off the gypsies and you'll be jake. Bob |
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« Reply #74 on: August 02, 2012, 05:49:11 PM » |
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Providence exists in the Dreamlands too, sort of. I'm not sure if it does in the horror stuff, can't remember, and not sure if I'd want to live there anyway.
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