Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 21 2009, 10:13 PM BSTI willing to bet at least £50 that he won't re-offend and blow up another plane.
Not even an inflatable one?
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Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 21 2009, 10:13 PM BSTTo be fair to the Scottish prison service, I'm pretty sure the guy is rehabilitated.
I willing to bet at least £50 that he won't re-offend and blow up another plane.
Did he really blow up this one? 
Quote: DaButt @ August 20 2009, 2:50 PM BSTI'm quite angry that the Lockerbie bomber was released from prison.
I can appreciate that.
If the guy is terminally ill, he needs healthcare as well as the cost of incarceration. From a Scot's point of view, it makes good financial sense to dump him back on Libya.
I'm not a Scot BTW.
Nothing at the minute. I'm all good. 
... what about now?
Quote: Leevil @ August 21 2009, 11:07 PM BSTNothing at the minute. I'm all good.
*refers to 'What are you smoking?' thread*
Quote: zooo @ August 21 2009, 11:09 PM BST... what about now?
A little bit.
Quote: Leevil @ August 22 2009, 10:52 AM BSTA little bit.
Even more now?
Quote: Geoff Mutton @ August 21 2009, 10:10 PM BSTBroadcasters who say 'sickth' instead of sixth.
I've heard that so many times on BBC radio stations that I assumed it was the proper way to say the word in the UK.
Someone needs to create a state names pronunciation guide for BBC presenters. Maryland and Michigan are not pronounced Mary-land and Mitch-igan.
Quote: DaButt @ August 22 2009, 2:07 PM BSTI've heard that so many times on BBC radio stations that I assumed it was the proper way to say the word in the UK.
Someone needs to create a state names pronunciation guide for BBC presenters. Maryland and Michigan are not pronounced Mary-land and Mitch-igan.
Yes, because Americans are never guilty of mispronouncing British place names.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 22 2009, 2:09 PM BSTYes, because Americans are never guilty of mispronouncing British place names.
It's not pronounced S-c**t-horpe?
No, it is.
Quote: DaButt @ August 22 2009, 2:07 PM BSTI've heard that so many times on BBC radio stations that I assumed it was the proper way to say the word in the UK.
Someone needs to create a state names pronunciation guide for BBC presenters. Maryland and Michigan are not pronounced Mary-land and Mitch-igan.
Well, in general every country has its own way of pronouncing place names. We say Par-is and not Par-ee, that's just how we say it. Similarly, we say Gothenburg, and not Yeti-bari-ay, which is an approximation of how the Swedish might say it, although not a very close approximation, since they have different vowel sounds which most of us can't 'do', and that's part of the reason we don't even attempt it.
So you can pronounce Maryland however you want, but it is 'correct' for us to use our own version.
But how is Maryland pronounced then?
Quote: zooo @ August 22 2009, 2:41 PM BSTBut how is Maryland pronounced then?
I guess it'd be something like the name Marilyn with a D tacked on the end.
Quote: Nogget @ August 22 2009, 2:39 PM BSTWell, in general every country has its own way of pronouncing place names. We say Par-is and not Par-ee, that's just how we say it. Similarly, we say Gothenburg, and not Yeti-bari-ay, which is an approximation of how the Swedish might say it, although not a very close approximation, since they have different vowel sounds which most of us can't 'do', and that's part of the reason we don't even attempt it.
So you can pronounce Maryland however you want, but it is 'correct' for us to use our own version.
It's not the end of the world if someone mispronounces something, but we (technically) share a common language and alphabet, so it's a bit different than pronouncing a word in French or Swedish.