Comments on: Golly! No more lashings of ginger beer

By: Billy The Blogging Poet

Billy The Blogging Poet — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:48:05 +0000

Here in the USA we call ginger beer, root beer. One of the most popular brands is Dr Pepper, though it tastes slightly different than most ginger beers.

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Thanks for revealing more of the mystery of ginger/root beer, Billy

By: Nyakehu

Nyakehu — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:36:25 +0000

hello
Yes the Famous Five what joy to read those books.On pronunciation do you remember how many times you used to correct me on Islington, until I stopped using it. The best place to get the correct English pronunciation was the football results at the BBC on Saturday ” Partick Thistle-1 Mid-Lothian 3 etc. Yeah Leicester square?? Love and kisses Nyaks I should be sleeping missing you guys like crazy where are your FT Contributions?
Nyaks

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I cant remember how you used to pronounce Islington! Was it I-slington instead of EEslington? Haha. Now I know what tease you about. Remember Gambwerwell?

The other place to learn interesting English pronounciations is the the weatherforcast – Dogger, Viking, German bite (?)

By: canybox

canybox — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:59:09 +0000

As for pronunciations; Edinburgh and Leicester. Oh boy the embarrassment.

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One day I shall write something about English pronunciations (and yes, the embarrassment)

By: canybox

canybox — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:56:57 +0000

Wasn’t too keen on Famous Five. My favourite was Hardy Boys then Nancy Drew.
Did they not do some book(s) with characters from both? Hmm not sure.

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Hi Candybox, some books with the same characters? Not to my recollection – I have not read them for a while however and you could be right

By: Whitney

Whitney — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:56:44 +0000

I too loved the Famous Five Series and I also love ginger beer.

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Same here, Whitney