Idiots!!!!

[okiscopey (Mike)]

Originally Posted by Starkler

Apart from one semi interested person who took a look it was treated with total indifference.

Sounds familiar. How to turn a rare, heavenly spectacle into a lead balloon in one easy lesson. But keep trying, you only need to turn one or two heads in a hundred for it to be worthwhile.

[RB (Andrew)]

A quick reminder about the IceInSpace Forum - Terms of Service.

"1. Please avoid profanity, we're trying to encourage a family atmosphere....."

We do encourage a certain level of self moderation on the forum and would like to see our standard remain high.

[mickoking]

Who cares how its pronounced. Its a painfully trivial problem IMHO.

[GrahamL]

A co -worker , who actually knows quite a bit tells me the jet stream can't possiblly effect viewing through a telescope ... he hasn't actually looked through one yet ..but thats beside the point !!!

The mars e mail of a few years back is another .. lets just blame the internet
and be done with it

[ving (David)]

potato...

does it matter?

[MortonH]

According to Patrick Moore in 1986, the correct pronunciation in Halley's own time would have been Haul-ee (i.e. the 'Hall' is pronounced as in Town Hall). However, no-one would use that any more as it just sounds wrong these days.

To follow more general language 'rules', a single 'L' (as in Bill Haley) will soften the 'a' to give Hail-ee. A double 'L' keeps the 'a' sharp, therefore Ha-Lee.

I wouldn't say the people at your work are idiots. They just don't read enough!

Morton

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Hear ya go Landlibba

and

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/h/h0028800.html

Click on "hear It"

Sounds more like Hullies here---maybe that's what it should be

[Ambermile]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Halley

Personally I've always read it as Halley (as in alley) but then what do I know - I'm only a BSc(Hons)

Arthur

[silwat]

I've always just called it Tom...

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Originally Posted by tailwag

Listen, don't get caught up in pronunciation, I have found that only one in every hundred people know how to correctly pronounce Australia

Thats an easy one "Strailia" or "Strayla"

[ving (David)]

Originally Posted by ving

potato...

does it matter?

i stand by this comment.

[PeteMo (Pete)]

I've always pronounced it Hail Lee's but notice that a lot cal it Hal-Lee's.

It's a bit like pronouncing Uranus. Most folk I heard pronounced it 'Your-anus' until the joke about the gay space man, Beavis & Buthead, Wayne's World etc, then I heard the pronunciation 'urine-us'.

"The Polish officer had to polish his boots!" Same spelling different pronunciation.

Is Scone pronounced skon or skown?

English is the weirdest language, afterall.

[xelasnave]

anyone remember the TV "would be if she could be" Mrs Bucket?
If not just ask
alex

[taminga16 (Greg)]

I find it interesting that people can suggest that the wankers be killed and the pricks be shot but I cannot enter the word P.E.N.I.S without being censored.
Blessed are the ignorant, for that is what they will always be. (Anon)

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by taminga16

I find it interesting that people can suggest that the wankers be killed and the pricks be shot but I cannot enter the word P.E.N.I.S without being censored.
Blessed are the ignorant, for that is what they will always be. (Anon)

Without getting into why you may be censcored in what context do you wish to use this word is it really that important to you ?
alex

[taminga16 (Greg)]

Alex, please see Eyepieces,barlows and filters. Greg.

[xelasnave]

Thank Greg I can now see the context which without would have left me in the dark. And I must say appropriate to illustrate the point. I dont know that the moderators take care of this however it may be "software" perhaps. I mentioned d.i.c.k. smith the well known retailer and it was altered and given the innocence of that reference I suspected it may well be software.
Unfortunately references to killing people are not seen as literal no doubt but if you think about it perhaps not a very nice way to handle a difference of opinion really.
Thanks again I hate being in a position where I feel as though I have missed what is going on and that is why I ask otherwise my mind continues to offer every possible alternative that the facts it is offerred can present.
I do appreciate your concern and can see it is not unreasonable but maybe it is mindless software other than ignorance.
Have a great evening
alex

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by PeteMo

It's a bit like pronouncing Uranus. Most folk I heard pronounced it 'Your-anus' until the joke about the gay space man, Beavis & Buthead, Wayne's World etc, then I heard the pronunciation 'urine-us'.

It was explained by Perry Vlahos (President of ASV) that since Uranus is from Ancient Greek, the correct pronunciation would be like "Oo-ran-oss"

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

Hmmmmmmnnnnnnnnn okay, I didn't want to have to sink to the low level I am about too, but you all forced me to

Mispronunciation is one thing and you can take it or leave it, but there is something worse, it's LAZY speech. What is lazy speech I hear you say??? Well according to me, here are my number 1 and 2 most hated lazy speech sins.

[1] Anythink

I simply cringe when I hear people say this, it has irked me for more than 30 years, it is my greatest lazy speech sin.

[2] 9867 9071 <----- Typical phone number, when spoken, it's Nine, Eight, Six, Seven, Nine, Oh, Seven, One. Of course, there is no such number as Oh, the number is zero, but lots of people substitute the number with the 15th letter of our alphabet (Upper case O, lower case o).

I have many more unfortunately, but these two reign supreme for me

[Ambermile]

Besides, it doesn't matter that it's pronounced differently in other countries - as long as it's pronounced correctly in his own country. Which it is. Hal - Lee...

Arthur