I'd favour STRUMnis myself, perhaps equality of stress, but never put the stress on ness (as it were). I'd record myself speaking the email, but it would break out into a war amongst the Orcadians as to whether the Kirkwall way of saying things is right (for the record, it is...). Cheers Steven ----- Original Message ----- From: Janice Langland To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Brough of Birsay On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Steven Heddle wrote: > Also Stromness is not 'Strohm-ness' but 'Strumnis!' Is this an implied change in stress, from StromNESS to STROMness? We need to Skype some of these conversations so we can both see and hear one another! Janice Langland _______________________________________ Orcadia Group Photo Album http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message