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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Ravenscar (the place, not profile),
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:31:19 +0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley
<clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> declaimed the following:

>On 2014-08-29, Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
>> On 14-08-29 19:59 , Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have got to ask: how did Ravenscar ever get chosen for an Ada meeting
>>> place ?
>>
>> I don't know... but I have another follow-on question: how is
>> "Ravenscar" pronounced locally? Does it start like "ray", or like
>> "Rachmaninoff"?
>>
>
>I pronounce it as Ray-ven-scar amd I've never heard anyone pronounce
>it in a different way. (However, it's such a little place I don't
>have much reason to bring it up in normal conversation so there might
>be variants I am unaware of.)
>
	Ah, good... I've not been mispronouncing it... though my confusion was
between <blackbird> scar and <blackbirds> car... Considering how many
locations have condensed the old "caer" down to "car". "Ravens Castle"
might have been viable <G>

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