I've lost my hearing. What?

[Reg Smeeton]

Does Frost have a thing?

Tache?
Curry?

 He's also Del Boy?

[sonicyouth]

Reg, my geography teacher at school was Glaswegian and was always pronouncing stuff differently to however I knew and was adamant he was right.

He used to insist that the Himalayas were known as the Him-aaaah-leee-yas instead of the Himma-lay-as, which is right? His pronounciation sounded better but he's the only person I've heard use it.

[Onion_Jimbo]

Reg... my hearing please. fix it

[Bob's Orange]

Reg... my hearing please. fix it

Try flying a plane to 30,000 feet and then yawning.

[sonicyouth]

I need an answer Reg, I'm tired and won't sleep unless I know.

[Reg Smeeton]

Reg, my geography teacher at school was Glaswegian and was always pronouncing stuff differently to however I knew and was adamant he was right.

He used to insist that the Himalayas were known as the Him-aaaah-leee-yas instead of the Himma-lay-as, which is right? His pronounciation sounded better but he's the only person I've heard use it.

 Given that Himalayas is an Indian word....imagine your down the curry house and its on the menu...you'd ask for a plate of Himma-lay-as....and the waiter would say plate of Him-aaaah-leee-yas.

[sonicyouth]

I'd be more concerned that one of the world's largest mountains would be on a menu at an Indian restaurant.

thanks though Reg, you are my God.

[Ben Wah Balls]

They're actually supposed to be called the Himalaya not the himalayas and it is pronounced with a long a.

So it's Himaalaya. Sanskrit has a number of long vowels.

Hima means snow and aallaya means place or abode.

[Reg Smeeton]

They're actually supposed to be called the Himalaya not the himalayas and it is pronounced with a long a.

So it's Himaalaya.

 Its a bit like The Mendip Hills....people say the Mendips....but locals will always say up on Mendip.....there's no such thing as the Mendips.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Yeah.

[Reg Smeeton]

Yeah.

 And they're a lot closer than the Himaaaaallllleeeeeaaaas.

 This is a decent weekend walk.

 http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/mendip.html

[walrus]

This is like the argument of what Red Star should be called, as natives say it should be Zdorovios Maikakaohombo (or something to that effect) but translated it means Red Star....  I mean, you'd sound like a right mong if you said I'm going to the Hiiiimaalaaayaaas  :|

And also, I demand to know why Olympiakos is now Olympiacos

[Simon Pieman]

Try holding your nose and then blowing through it to pop the ears

[Reg Smeeton]

This is like the argument of what Red Star should be called, as natives say it should be Zdorovios Maikakaohombo (or something to that effect) but translated it means Red Star....  I mean, you'd sound like a right mong if you said I'm going to the Hiiiimaalaaayaaas  :|

And also, I demand to know why Olympiakos is now Olympiacos

 Are we taliking the Red Star of Phillipe Cuervo here?

  This is what Wikipaedia has to say......

    Beginnings of Red Star:  The birth of Red Star has reasons politico-chocolate éclairs. The goal of its creators is to collect voices in the popular mediums in favour of the social ideas of  the Furrow  and against  the anticlericalism  of left. In February  1897 ,  Jules Rimet joins together his brother Modeste, his brother-in-law Jean de Pessac, George Delavenne, Charles of Saint-Cyr military school and Ernest Weber in a Parisian coffee. Red Star, general sports club, are founded.

  Not too sure about being against anticlericalism though.

[walrus]

This is like the argument of what Red Star should be called, as natives say it should be Zdorovios Maikakaohombo (or something to that effect) but translated it means Red Star....  I mean, you'd sound like a right mong if you said I'm going to the Hiiiimaalaaayaaas  :|

And also, I demand to know why Olympiakos is now Olympiacos

 Are we taliking the Red Star of Phillipe Cuervo here?

  This is what Wikipaedia has to say......

    Beginnings of Red Star:  The birth of Red Star has reasons politico-chocolate éclairs. The goal of its creators is to collect voices in the popular mediums in favour of the social ideas of  the Furrow  and against  the anticlericalism  of left. In February  1897 ,  Jules Rimet joins together his brother Modeste, his brother-in-law Jean de Pessac, George Delavenne, Charles of Saint-Cyr military school and Ernest Weber in a Parisian coffee. Red Star, general sports club, are founded.

  Not too sure about being against anticlericalism though.

Erm, I understood nothing.   :|

I was talking about Red Star the Slovakian(?) football club...!