Mysterious post in Endymion Road

[boohoo]

it so looks like one, so i say it is.

Well, that's a bit rubbish really.. stopped making a 'stink' about it ....

 

[Orang Utan]

we all live in our own realities, so it IS a lamp post in mine, whatever proof you have

 

[boohoo]

dp

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

we all live in our own realities, so it IS a lamp post in mine, whatever proof you have

You're talking bollocks.

It's obviously a disc golf stand































for tall people

 

[Hocus Eye.]

It looks like a sewer vent to me also called a 'stink pipe'. You don't only get them in that there Lunnun or Brixton. I know of sewer vents in Devon where I hail from.

While I am here in your forum, I have yet to come to Brixton although I am living close to The Great Wen but out in the leafy suburbs and I wonder if Helix road is helical. Is it a spiral hill? Or is it just a picturesque name for a flat straight road?

Yours

Your country cousin from somewhere in the home counties

 

[leanderman]

I know that. I meant Endymion. I know about him as well but I thought I'd let Leanderman loose

Haha. I quite living on a road with a mythical name.

Even if most people think it's pronounced Lean-der (as in slim) and not Le-ander.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Haha. I quite living on a road with a mythical name.

Even if most people think it's pronounced Lean-der (as in slim) and not Le-ander.

I pronounce it Leeander. Is that wrong then?

Endymion is even funnier

 

[leanderman]

I pronounce it Leeander. Is that wrong then?

Endymion is even funnier

You are right.

I can imagine the conversations with the call centres:

'Ende-what? Can you spell that for me please.'

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You are right.

I can imagine the conversations with the call centres:

'Ende-what? Can you spell that for me please.'

TFFT. Would be a bit embarrassing if I'd been pronouncing it wrong for 26 years!

What about Endymion?

I say End-im-ian. Please tell me it's not wrong

I think I initially called it Endy-myon though

 

[Orang Utan]

it's LAY-AND-ER and EN-DIM-EE-ON, though make that EE a short one.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

it's LAY-AND-ER and EN-DIM-EE-ON, though make that EE a short one.

oh well, I get Endymion right then. Now I don't know if I'm saying Leander right

 

[Orang Utan]

not if you're saying LEE-AND-ER

 

[leanderman]

oh well, I get Endymion right then. Now I don't know if I'm saying Leander right

We may all be wrong: I have checked a Collins dictionary and it seems to claim that the 'e' in Leander should be pronounced as in the vowel sound in pretty, build, sieve and busy

That would make LI-AND-ER

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

not if you're saying LEE-AND-ER

Well I ain't changing it after 26 sodding years!

 

[lang rabbie]

Well I ain't changing it after 26 sodding years!

But Minnie surely you want to be able to crash the Stewards Enclosure at the Henley Royal Regatta.

Although I thought it should only ever be lɪˈændə - if you are referring to the lover of Hero or the Rowing Club named after him, and liˈændər [lee-an-der] could only be used only for the town between Austin and Waco in Texas, my in depth sample of people who will admit to having rowed at University (two of them) suggests that the range of drawling speech used by the products of public schools means you can get away with pretty much any vowel sound on the first syllable.

Assuming you've managed to get through the "skirt below the knee" rule to get into Henley, then the only thing that would expose you as an oik when crashing the Member's Enclosure at Henley would be to say LEE-AND-ER not LEE-AN-DER

ɛnˈdɪmɪən - the lover of Selene

Googling has not brought up any Texan towns of that name

(My Google discovery of the day is that the opening cemetery scene in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was filmed in the Bagdad Old Cemetery in Leander!)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Assuming you've managed to get through the "skirt below the knee" rule to get into Henley, then the only thing that would expose you as an oik when crashing the Member's Enclosure at Henley would be to say LEE-AND-ER not LEE-AN-DER

Well I say LEE-AN-DER so I'm alright

 

[Orang Utan]

bollox to the lot of you. i asked my parents, who know their ancient greek

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

bollox to the lot of you. i asked my parents, who know their ancient greek

Maybe so, but would they be able to get into the Stewards Enclosure at Henley. I could. I would stand there pointing my tongue out to them to show them their knowledge is worthless

 

[Orang Utan]

i'm sure they could if they were so inclined

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i'm sure they could if they were so inclined

They could have my place if they changed their minds. I'm not in the least bit interested in a load of knobs at Henley

 

[leanderman]

Well I say LEE-AN-DER so I'm alright

That's it. I am moving house. I can't live in a road I can't pronounce proper

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's it. I am moving house. I can't live in a road I can't pronounce proper

Move to Endymion

 

[leanderman]

Move to Endymion

It's still mythical, which is good, but the extra two minutes to the Tube rules it out.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's still mythical, which is good, but the extra two minutes to the Tube rules it out.

How's it an extra 2 minutes?

 

[billythefish]

I'm surprised how many people get Helix wrong... they keep trying to shorten the 'e'.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm surprised how many people get Helix wrong... they keep trying to shorten the 'e'.

Like Hell-ix?

I call it Hee-lix

 

[leanderman]

How's it an extra 2 minutes?

Bottom end of LI-AND-ER to any stretch of EN-DIM-EE-ON is about three minutes.

Google claims the walk to the Tube is 16 and 19 minutes respectively

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Bottom end of LI-AND-ER to any stretch of EN-DIM-EE-ON is about three minutes.

Google claims the walk to the Tube is 16 and 19 minutes respectively

Then move to the top end of Endymion!

 

[billythefish]

Like Hell-ix?

I call it Hee-lix

Yes - and yes! He-licks?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yes - and yes! He-licks?

I've never heard anyone call it Hell-ix