Talk:Harwich/Archive 1

Archive 1

Pronunciation

The article claimed this is pronounced haw-RICH. I assume that's wrong, and will change it, but am leaving a note here just in case. kwami 08:48, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

You are correct in changing it. I was raised in Harwich; it's pronounced "ha-rich". The Ha sound is the same as in Harrow. Sometimes the "rich" is more of a "ridge". 90.220.88.167 (talk) 16:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree, having been brought up there too and recently visited, so have changed the IPA representation accordingly. The Merriam-Webster pronunciation is written correctly, but in audio - "hair-ridge" - it is an American making a guess. However, "ha-rich" (with "ha" as in "harrow") is the sound everywhere in England: for the "received pronunciation", I think "mooncow" in Forvo gets it right - Harwich. But, in (harbourside) Harwich itself, the "h" may be dropped and the whole fall between "(h)arr-itch" and "(h)arr-idge". By local legend, a letter addressed to someone in "Arijaba" was correctly delivered to "Harwich Harbour". --Wikiain (talk) 01:43, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

I see this issue has cropped up again in a recent edit and revert. I agree with the above - that it's somewhere between "(h)arr-itch" and "(h)arr-idge". I imagine the Merriam-Webster pronunciation may refer to Harwich, Massachusetts. Barnabypage (talk) 17:21, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Good sleuthing, Barnabypage. Wikiain (talk) 17:36, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Frinton

Grafitti artists have been known to add to the slogan "Harwich for the Continent", the words "Frinton for the incontinent". Nearby Frinton-on-Sea is remarkable for having remained essentially a retirement town. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 22:57, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

The old jokes are the best ones, eh! Subjectively I'm not so sure that Frinton is that much "older" in population terms than Harwich these days, though. Barnabypage (talk) 00:31, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Just in case ...

... one of the Harwich watchers is interested: Recently I came, by concidence, accross a John Nunn from Harwich and made this out of it in the German Wikipedia. Quite interesting guy, in my opinion. Maybe someone wants to import it into the English language Wikipedia. I don't want to do it myself because I am not a native speaker. The Google translator renders a translation so that at least the content can be understood and used as a basis for an article in good language. Regards --Pfeiffer3f (talk) 14:52, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

The article Kerguelen has this, including a citation of Nunn's book:

In 1825, the British sealer John Nunn and three crew members from Favourite, were shipwrecked on Kerguelen until they were rescued in 1827 by Captain Alexander Distant during his hunting campaign.

Illustration from John Nunn's book about the three years he and his shipwrecked crew survived on the island in the 1820s.

You can find and read Nunn's book through a library that subscribes to the Hathi Trust Digital Library. Wikiain (talk) 00:55, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

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