[QUOTE=Kimstar;8935141]
Actually, in England where it is manufactured, it’s “Beaver”. But I don’t pronounce it that way! [/QUOTE]
REALLY?!? (I’m totally saying that with a crinkled up nose)
Yup, really! The Belvoir Hunt and castle are also pronounced the same way.
[QUOTE=Kimstar;8935178]
Yup, really! The Belvoir Hunt and castle are also pronounced the same way.[/QUOTE]
Eeeeewwwww.
[QUOTE=Reynard;8934922]
It’s PIETCH-lee.[/QUOTE]
So Google & I are wrong? :eek:
But, it’s on the internet, it has to be true… :concern:
[QUOTE=ybiaw;8935173]
REALLY?!? (I’m totally saying that with a crinkled up nose)[/QUOTE]
no thx beaver. I’m with you ybiaw.
I will still call it my belVOIRE soaps. And continue to clean my tack with it and will never again, ever, allow the idea that it is ‘beaver’ to be uttered in my presence. WRONG!
No wait, as it was written once in a troll thread:
RONG!!!
[QUOTE=2DogsFarm;8935227]
So Google & I are wrong? :eek:
But, it’s on the internet, it has to be true… :concern:[/QUOTE]
Completely, totally, absolutely and utterly wrong. 
[QUOTE=beowulf;8935257]
no thx beaver. I’m with you ybiaw.
I will still call it my belVOIRE soaps. And continue to clean my tack with it and will never again, ever, allow the idea that it is ‘beaver’ to be uttered in my presence. WRONG!
No wait, as it was written once in a troll thread:
RONG!!![/QUOTE]
BEAVER BEAVER BEAVER BEAVER BEAVER BEAVEr BEAVer BEAver BEaver Beaver.
BEAVER!!!
[QUOTE=Reynard;8935268]
Completely, totally, absolutely and utterly wrong. :)[/QUOTE]
Well, obviously you are a mean, old poopyhead!
And a Charter Member of the COTH Ignorant Disrepectful F-bombs!*
*see the New Horse trainwreck thread
And now I am going to hop on my gelded-yesterday 13yo Ay-rab Stalli-gelding (with beads from my Prom dress in his mane), wearing my PITCHLee coat & go riding off where mean, old meanies don’t crush my Dreemz! :disgust:
You comin’ beowulf?
Ha Ha Ha - made you say Beaver.
We’re all so juvenile.
[QUOTE=2DogsFarm;8935356]
Well, obviously you are a mean, old poopyhead!
And a Charter Member of the COTH Ignorant Disrepectful F-bombs!*
*see the New Horse trainwreck thread
And now I am going to hop on my gelded-yesterday 13yo Ay-rab Stalli-gelding (with beads from my Prom dress in his mane), wearing my PITCHLee coat & go riding off where mean, old meanies don’t crush my Dreemz! :disgust:
You comin’ beowulf?[/QUOTE]
Guilty as sin.
[QUOTE=SmartAlex;8935396]
Ha Ha Ha - made you say Beaver.
We’re all so juvenile.[/QUOTE]
You said it too!
Ner ner.
[QUOTE=Reynard;8935272]
BEAVER BEAVER BEAVER BEAVER BEAVER BEAVEr BEAVer BEAver BEaver Beaver.
BEAVER!!![/QUOTE]
You know, a long long time ago I had a horse named Beau. And how it was written on his stall door, it looked like it said “Beav.” So my friend insisted on calling him Beav. My lovely lovely boy became BEAV, BEAVER, BEAVIS, etc. It was depressing and also hilarious.
[QUOTE=Reynard;8934922]
It’s PIETCH-lee.[/QUOTE]
PIETCH pronounced as in pumpkin pie?
I knew about Belvoir “beaver” in England but I have a friend who was born in Fort BELL-vwahr, VA (though since she was just a baby at the time I’m not sure I’m pronouncing it right!) 
Can we all say “comptroller”? :lol:
[QUOTE=RPM;8935527]
PIETCH pronounced as in pumpkin pie?
I knew about Belvoir “beaver” in England but I have a friend who was born in Fort BELL-vwahr, VA (though since she was just a baby at the time I’m not sure I’m pronouncing it right!)
Can we all say “comptroller”? :lol:[/QUOTE]
Yes, it’s the Pumpkin Pytchley (PIETCH-lee) However, the pumpkin is usually silent in British English pronunciation.
As long as we all pronounce it as controller, no-one needs to get hurt…
[QUOTE=ybiaw;8935468]
You know, a long long time ago I had a horse named Beau. And how it was written on his stall door, it looked like it said “Beav.” So my friend insisted on calling him Beav. My lovely lovely boy became BEAV, BEAVER, BEAVIS, etc. It was depressing and also hilarious.[/QUOTE]
Poor Beav. :no:
[QUOTE=Kimstar;8935178]
Yup, really! The Belvoir Hunt and castle are also pronounced the same way.[/QUOTE]
And they are in the Vale of Belvoir (Beaver), just north of us, and the PIEtchley isn’t that far, either, to the south.
[QUOTE=Kimstar;8935141]
Actually, in England where it is manufactured, it’s “Beaver”. But I don’t pronounce it that way!
The English are also great manglers of pronunciation (especially if it is a French word long in use in England):
Cholmondeley is pronounced “Chumlee”
Reading (the place) is “Redding”
Beauchamp is “Beecham”"
You get the picture…![/QUOTE]
Beaulieu is pronounced Bewley
Colquhoun is pronounced Coon.
Leading to the following limerick
“A young fellow called Cholmondeley Colquhoun,
Once kept as a pet a babolquhoun,
His mother said, “Cholmondeley, do you think it quite colmondeley,
To feed your babolquhoun with a spolquhoun?””
Salisbury is sometimes pronounced Sarum, and Hampshire is sometimes pronounced Hants, leading to another limerick
There was a young vicar from Salisbury
whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury.
He went around Hampshire
without any pampshire
'til his bishop compelled him to walisbury.
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[QUOTE=Janet;8935740]
Beaulieu is pronounced Bewley
Colquhoun is pronounced Coon.
Leading to the following limerick
“A young fellow called Cholmondeley Colquhoun,
Once kept as a pet a babolquhoun,
His mother said, “Cholmondeley, do you think it quite colmondeley,
To feed your babolquhoun with a spolquhoun?””
Salisbury is sometimes pronounced Sarum, and Hampshire is sometimes pronounced Hants, leading to another limerick
There was a young vicar from Salisbury
whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury.
He went around Hampshire
without any pampshire
'til his bishop compelled him to walisbury.[/QUOTE]
Colquhoun is Kuh-HOON.
Sarum is the mediaeval name for Salisbury, and Hants is an abbreviation for Hampshire.
I just hate being wrong :mad:
{2Dogs stomps off (after dismounting from the Ay-rab) to confess to friend they were right.}
[QUOTE=Reynard;8935771]
Colquhoun is Kuh-HOON.
Sarum is the mediaeval name for Salisbury, and Hants is an abbreviation for Hampshire.[/QUOTE]
You beat me to it!
