Well Fancy That!!

[Pip in a Poke]

There is actually somebody I've heard of in today's Google Doodle - Gertrude Jekyll's 174th Birthday

As a frequent visitor to the excellent Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset, I am a huge fan of her work and her magnus opus, Gardens for Small Country Houses, serves as a blueprint for the horticultural work in progress that is the garden here at Pip Towers.

But what I learned from the link that I find particularly inneresting is that her younger brother, Walter, was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson who used the family name in his novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

I wonder how it is that Gertrude's surname is pronounced Jee-kil while that of the eponymous villain is pronounced Jeck-ill?

Inneresting.

[OwlHoot]

I wonder how it is that Gertrude's surname is pronounced Jee-kil while that of the eponymous villain is pronounced Jeck-ill? ..

Much the same as that well-known town of Yate is pronounced, as you mentioned yourself, YayTay (or was it Yawtaw, I forget now ? )

[Pip in a Poke]

Much the same as that well-known town of Yate is pronounced, as you mentioned yourself, YayTay (or was it Yawtaw, I forget now ? )

Yah-Tay!!

Now, your argument would hold water if there were two places named Yate, one having the prononciation Yah-Tay and the other, say, Yay-Tay.

But there aren't.

Whereas there are 2 people with the name Jekyll, fictional or otherwise, where the name is pronounced differently.

I was just wondering how that came about.

[LondonManc]

That's nothing. Some of the UK place names as pronounced by the locals are brilliant:

St Austell - Sozzle
Barnoldswick - Barlick
Hawick - Hoyk
Fowey - Foy
London - Centre of the universe

[barrydidit]

Couple of mentions from da Hudd environs;

Slaithwaite - Slawit
Skelmanthorpe - Shat

[Pip in a Poke]

Where are my likes and thanks OH?

Can anyone spell out the phonetics for Kirkcudbright please?

I always forget & I may have to go there sometime.

[OwlHoot]

Where are my likes and thanks OH? ...

They would have been bestowed, with merry abandon.

But you forfeited all rights to them by misspelling "interesting", twice in one post!

[LondonManc]

They would have been bestowed, with merry abandon.

But you forfeited all rights to them by misspelling "interesting", twice in one post!

Well said. CUK will forgive most things, except paedos and bad spellers.

[MrMarkyMark]

There is actually somebody I've heard of in today's Google Doodle - Gertrude Jekyll's 174th Birthday

As a frequent visitor to the excellent Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset, I am a huge fan of her work and her magnus opus, Gardens for Small Country Houses, serves as a blueprint for the horticultural work in progress that is the garden here at Pip Towers.

But what I learned from the link that I find particularly inneresting is that her younger brother, Walter, was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson who used the family name in his novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

I wonder how it is that Gertrude's surname is pronounced Jee-kil while that of the eponymous villain is pronounced Jeck-ill?

Inneresting.

Its not.

Its dull, tedious and boring just like your other posts.

[WTFH]

Where are my likes and thanks OH?

Can anyone spell out the phonetics for Kirkcudbright please?

I always forget & I may have to go there sometime.

Cur - Cub - Ree