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It's NOT ****ing CourchevAl!!

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Frosty the Snowman wrote:
richmond, Bonus points for acknowledging that Yorkshire exists.


Thanks. I used to live about half a mile from the northern edge of it.
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Towcester & Bicester.
Few can spell them, even less can pronounce them properly. But who really cares?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Bicester=Pie Town.

No?
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You've heard of the Bicester bum then I take it?
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In all this, don't forget that the French don't even know how to pronounce the name of their own capital city (they apparently call it Parree, of all things).
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uktrailmonster, Towcester is easy to pronounce - its said "grill pan"

We have a Magdalen Meadows near here - very few can pronounce Magdalen

I remember my friend telling me of an Australian visiting him who called to say he was near Lo Hur Bo Ro Hu (Loughborough)
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We were playing Monopoly recently & my South African friend (who has lived in UK for the last 25yrs) pronounced Angel Islington as Angle Eyelington Laughing Laughing She couldnt understand what we were laughing at Laughing
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Boris wrote:
I remember my friend telling me of an Australian visiting him who called to say he was near Lo Hur Bo Ro Hu (Loughborough)


Wot, not Loogaburooga?
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eng_ch wrote:
Boris wrote:
I remember my friend telling me of an Australian visiting him who called to say he was near Lo Hur Bo Ro Hu (Loughborough)


Wot, not Loogaburooga?


Don't be stupid! That's off the Pacific Highway, not the A6. Laughing
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mountainaddict, Music to my ears. There ain't no horses in Courchevel. This must be the most wrongly spelt resort in the world Smile Smile Very Happy
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DAVID SNELL, I love it, straight from the beginning of the thread to the end, without wasting time in the middle! Respect!
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Nick L, I like the tour ops versions
Val despair

Speaking of which...my irrational pet irritant is peple referring to Val d'Isere as just 'Val' as if there could only possibly ever be one.

Val what?

Valmorel?
Valloire?
Val Thorens?
Valmeinier?
Val Cenis?

etc
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Some of my favourite pronunciations from fellow skiers include Le Zarc and Lay Manure...
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How about Haughty Lucy?
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She could be a glamorous sidekick for Les Prazz, who I imagine as a seventies style dart show host, with his mate Les Howchers.
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Or perhaps she's one of those girls that the signs saying "Attention - Piste Debutantes " warn us about.
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firebug, Laughing
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pam w wrote:
How about Haughty Lucy?
You have completely stumped me there. Wossthat supposed to be?!
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Hurtle, Hauteluce.
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pam w, ah, that would explain it - I've never heard of Hauteluce! Embarassed
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Hurtle. You can be forgiven for not having heard of Hauteluce, pictured. It's a pretty, traditional, village, in the valley of the same name - a "no through road" to the Col de Joly, in the Les Contamines ski area. Hauteluce itself is the lowest point, at 1150m, in the Les Saisies domain.
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David Murdoch wrote:
mountainaddict, well according to the Courcheval Tourist Offie you can spell it either way... http://www.courchevel.com/courchevel/courcheval.html

A bit like Chamouny/Chamonix, Champolux/Champoluc, etc....


Hmm. That page does not exist on the French version of the site, only the English and Spanish. Surely nuff said?

Simple rule for anglophones: calling it Courcheval makes you[*] look dumb.


[*] Not "you", David Murdoch, the colloquial "you". I don't want to say "one" in case the chevaliers aren't familiar with its usage.
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eng_ch wrote:
Boris wrote:
I remember my friend telling me of an Australian visiting him who called to say he was near Lo Hur Bo Ro Hu (Loughborough)


Wot, not Loogaburooga?


Bumped this thread really to avoid starting a new CourchevAl one.
But as I'm here..
I thought it was pronounced "Lowbrow", as in "Lowbrow University"

[takes cover]
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Most people don't know where they are in order to mispronounce it. I sometimes meet new people and have conversations that go like this:

"So, where did you go skiing last season?"
"Ooooh, ermm, it was that Teribel, no, no, Val I'dunno", turns to partner "where woz it babes?"
"Ooooh, errr, Italy wasnit, that's right Posh Becks place, Courblimey" etc etc until we all kill each other.
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Who gives a f##k what most of SW London call this resort? Most of them couldn't point it out on a globe if their life depended on it. It is, however, a fantastic ski resort. Spoilt by the annual influx of morons! Marybell? Corshayval? Val Something? I've been once - never again.
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Who gives a f##k what most of SW London call this resort?
Oy, do you mind?! Laughing I know exactly what it's called, where it is and how to pronounce it. And I think it's a fantastic ski resort too. All this despite living in SW London. wink
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Hurtle, But you are not most of SW London, are you?
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alex_heney, true, but aspersions were clearly being cast - generically - against SW Londoners! wink Quite justifiably, IMV, but don't tell anyone I said so. wink
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Courchevel may have added Courcheval as a possible Google link to them because so many people typed it.
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How wide can we take this? I was taught to say Conduit as cundit but now everyone says condooit. This thread could run and run (again). Laughing

Spelling edit Embarassed (Hurtle Laughing)..... (99) I really must pay attention. (100) I really must pay attention.


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Coeur-cher-VAAHLLLLL darlings, VAAAAHHHHL, to have a little swish about on my darling little laAAhcrwAAAH skis. Of course it IS such a shame about Christian but, gosh, you're all SO endearingly common.
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snowball wrote:
Courchevel may have added Courcheval as a possible Google link to them because so many people typed it.
Good thinking! Sort of 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'. Laughing

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So was I. wink
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Embarassed Hurtle, considering that was the point of my post ... (now edited)
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I once asked in Scotland if they had a particular single malt and was told... "yes, if you can pronounce it right".
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Is it Duck tape or duct tape wink
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Boredsurfing wrote:
Is it Duck tape or duct tape wink


depends wt yer wanna pay for it m8.... Duct is gonna be twice the price .. same bodge

Bit like Courchev*l really. Same place but seems worth discussing every year Toofy Grin Perhaps costs more if it becomes Courchevel ???
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snowball wrote:
I once asked in Scotland if they had a particular single malt and was told... "yes, if you can pronounce it right".


you should've asked the gobshite to give you a large one with diet coke and ice, see how they like them apples!
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Agenterre wrote:
Boredsurfing wrote:
Is it Duck tape or duct tape wink


depends wt yer wanna pay for it m8.... Duct is gonna be twice the price .. same bodge


I suspect you meant that the other way around Smile (Duck being a brand of tape)
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alex_heney, You must be quackers to pay those prices Laughing
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