Scooter Mania

mainly because it burns my shirts

 

'cause it rained on their wedding days...


prk.

 

I hear Smee's riding gets him in trouble with the coppery too... [1]

G-S

[1] Well, we all know this isn't true... but I couldn't think of
another metal *mutter... need coffee*

 

That was a bit tinny.

Moike

 

Oh, the irony.

 

This cascade is borong.

----sharks

 

Finally back to beer.

Beer mate?

Theo

 

Steel yourself, it's only going to get worse...


prk.

 

Ya zinc so?

 

I rust my case.

 

~
You're talking out of uranium!

 

They're one and the same: Spelled 'babel', pronounced 'babble'.

G

 

Not on the original tv show it wasn't (I've not heard the radio play),
on the tv show it was bay-bel

JL

 

I always assumed that was just accent and that it was spelled babel
pronounced babble though...


G-S

 

No use argon with ewes!

Gary

 

A quick search shows you've been sucked in by the Yanks again GS

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/babel?view=uk

UK pron. BAYbel

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Babel&r=66

US pron. BA-BEL (babble) or BAY bel (if you click on the pron. link the
symbols are explained)

JL

 

I'm almost sure that on the radio play it was pronounced ba-bel
though... and doesn't the radio play predate the tv show? I don't have
my cassette of the radio show anymore so I can't check...

*blank look*

Not saying you are wrong... it could be my failing memory


G-S

 

Yes the radio play came first, then the book, then the TV show. However
as per above, the UK pronounciation is baybel so it was more likely to
have been said that way - I don't *know* however as I've not heard the
radio play (as I said in the original post).

<shrug> "Tower of Babel" is the reference which he is making with the
babelfish and I've only ever heard it pronounced as baybel as well -
obviously the word babble is derived from that thouhg.

JL

 

Wasn't pronounced as babble in the book.

Theo

 

Let me gas: you weren't radon this thread?

-----sharks