Dang Buce!! That gave me a headache just opening the file!! Maybe Dear Dron can make something of it.... On a side note,,do we know if Dear Dron is a boy or girl?...from the name it's hard to tell....It doesn't matter either way,,just wouldn't want to inadvertently cause gender offence. R -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] How now Scapa Flow? Royce Perry wrote: > <snicker>...was wondering when somebody would bring that up. <g> > [email protected] wrote >> Remember in these "how to pronounce" discussion that we don't all pronounce >> "now" "how" or many other words sometimes used for examples the same way. >> Don't assume you know what it sounds like until you've heard it spoken. To avoid any doubt in pronounciation always use the Internation Phonetic Alphabet. But beware! This is NOT a trivial task - see <http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/IPA_chart_(C)2005.pdf> or <http://tinyurl.com/yvrk34> -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont> "99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name" ------------------------------- 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

"Dear dron" is Andrei (he said that the "dron" was a play on "John" and also a nickname for Andrei. WAY north eastern pronunciation of Andrew) One must assume Andrei is a man. Maybe even a gentleman... >From what little I have learned from Russian literature, any given Russian name may have half a dozen nicknames. Not just "Frank" or "Fran"for Francis... Andrei, will you give us a list of the ordinary nicknames for "Alexander"? And Orcadians, what are some of the standard Orcadian nicknames for (eg) Mary, John, Edward, Andrew? Anne near Philadelphia On 8/27/07, Royce Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > Dang Buce!! That gave me a headache just opening the file!! Maybe Dear Dron > can make something of it.... > > On a side note,,do we know if Dear Dron is a boy or girl?...from the name > it's hard to tell....

To answer all the questions in one... I don't have problems with this file and it's a good idea about IPA. In its simplified version how is noted as [hau], know/no = [nou], in fact I'm used to this way of transcription above everything else and recommend it to you because the English way of transcripting is very misleading in many cases. As for my personality I´m definitely a man! To ladies: yes, I'm a gentleman as well, take a notice :D The most common nickname for Alexander in Russian is Sasha (stress on the first syllable). Are there actually specific Orcadians names/nicknames in existence? All the best! Andrei

Royce Perry wrote: > On a side note,,do we know if Dear Dron is a boy or girl?...from the name > it's hard to tell....It doesn't matter either way,,just wouldn't want to > inadvertently cause gender offence. > R Andrei is a masculine name, surely? Isn't it, Andrei? Norman T.