Do you pronounce it Thule or Thule?

Freetime101 wrote:

brooksby wrote:

I hate it when you have to speak a word that you've only ever seen written down and not heard anyone actually say (and you don't know whether you're saying it right).

(Not quite the same, but imagine my shame when my wife informed me that Bath is actually pronounced "Barth" and grass is pronounced "grarss"  ).

A fellow northerner who married a southerner then?

Teaching the kids to speak will be confusing for them - is it path or parth...

I'm still not sure where Newcarstle is  

My daughter has a worryingly strong Somerset accent...

(Fun story for my kids is still one of the first times I came down here.  My GF (as she was) took me to Berkeley Castle.  Went on the guided tour there.  At the end, she asked me what I thought of it and I had to admit I hadn't understood a word of it!)

CygnusX1 wrote:

Oh and pronounce Campagnolo how you like, just for the love of god don't abbreviate it to "campy". Only "campag" is allowed. 

Cam-pan-yo-lo, isn't it?

See also: Che-les-teh.

jollygoodvelo wrote:

Cam-pan-yo-lo, isn't it?

Yes. And, it's:

Velo-chee (meaning: discontinued, perfectly functional groupset)

Bee-an-key (meaning: light blue bike that's not as pretty as it should be)

Chinell-li (meaning: Italian bike frame that can be ridden without being called a poser)

Outside our small world, people who say "expresso" should be shot, as should any non-Italian who corrects another non-Italian who orders several cappuccinos, or a single panini. There's pedantry and then there's telling people you're going to Firenze for the weekend.

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

Who can tell? Nyarlathotep gets around a bit, what with having a thousand forms.

Funnily enough, I was involved only recently in a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game where we (the players) were playing Nazi officers trying to uncover mysterious artifacts from a dig in Africa (Curse of the Yellow Sign - Act 1). It didn't end well.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Funnily enough, I was involved only recently in a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game where we (the players) were playing Nazi officers trying to uncover mysterious artifacts from a dig in Africa (Curse of the Yellow Sign - Act 1). It didn't end well.

Well, that explains a LOT.

Was it by any chance the satanic african ground squirrels that came for you when they discovered you trying to unearh their nuts? 

CygnusX1 wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Funnily enough, I was involved only recently in a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game where we (the players) were playing Nazi officers trying to uncover mysterious artifacts from a dig in Africa (Curse of the Yellow Sign - Act 1). It didn't end well.

Well, that explains a LOT.

Was it by any chance the satanic african ground squirrels that came for you when they discovered you trying to unearh their nuts? 

I don't want to give any spoilers, but it was other-worldly.

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

Who can tell? Nyarlathotep gets around a bit, what with having a thousand forms.

Funnily enough, I was involved only recently in a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game where we (the players) were playing Nazi officers trying to uncover mysterious artifacts from a dig in Africa (Curse of the Yellow Sign - Act 1). It didn't end well.

CoC never did, IIRC.  The only game that can be played by teenagers or children where "suicide" can be a rational decision.  Ah, fun times!

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

Who can tell? Nyarlathotep gets around a bit, what with having a thousand forms.

Funnily enough, I was involved only recently in a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game where we (the players) were playing Nazi officers trying to uncover mysterious artifacts from a dig in Africa (Curse of the Yellow Sign - Act 1). It didn't end well.

CoC never did, IIRC.  The only game that can be played by teenagers or children where "suicide" can be a rational decision.  Ah, fun times!

You'd need to invoke the spirit of Old Man Henderson to really beat CoC: https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_Henderson#Hell_on_Ice

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

I've always pronounced it 'toolah'.

Didn't think I'd see my old mucker Nyarlathotep mentioned on here for sure!

Coming soon... Cthulhu Disk brakes and Dagon derailleurs...

Cyclax Maximus wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

I've always pronounced it 'toolah'.

Didn't think I'd see my old mucker Nyarlathotep mentioned on here for sure!

Coming soon... Cthulhu Disk brakes and Dagon derailleurs...

I'm surprised that FluffyKittenOfTindalos has never mentioned him/her/it.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Cyclax Maximus wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

I've always pronounced it 'toolah'.

Didn't think I'd see my old mucker Nyarlathotep mentioned on here for sure!

Coming soon... Cthulhu Disk brakes and Dagon derailleurs...

I'm surprised that FluffyKittenOfTindalos has never mentioned him/her/it.

I remember asking them about their username some time ago - the Fluffy Kittens of Tindalos (unlike, as any fule kno, the Hounds of Tindalos) can only be summed through curves.

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Cyclax Maximus wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

I've always pronounced it 'toolah'.

Didn't think I'd see my old mucker Nyarlathotep mentioned on here for sure!

Coming soon... Cthulhu Disk brakes and Dagon derailleurs...

I'm surprised that FluffyKittenOfTindalos has never mentioned him/her/it.

I remember asking them about their username some time ago - the Fluffy Kittens of Tindalos (unlike, as any fule kno, the Hounds of Tindalos) can only be summed through curves.

Curves? Presumably curves in a non-euclidean geometry.

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Cyclax Maximus wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

I've always pronounced it 'toolah'.

Didn't think I'd see my old mucker Nyarlathotep mentioned on here for sure!

Coming soon... Cthulhu Disk brakes and Dagon derailleurs...

I'm surprised that FluffyKittenOfTindalos has never mentioned him/her/it.

I remember asking them about their username some time ago - the Fluffy Kittens of Tindalos (unlike, as any fule kno, the Hounds of Tindalos) can only be summed through curves.

Curves? Presumably curves in a non-euclidean geometry.

Absolutely, But which model of non-euclidean geometry...?  Strange spaces - are they spherical, hyperbolic, or some weird shape we can't imagine?? Hmm??? (I'll get my coat)

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Cyclax Maximus wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I though it was some sinister connection to the Thule Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society

(Basically a Nazi occult society)

Weren't they secretly worshippers of Nyarlathotep?  (Or was that just in my teenage roleplaying years...).

I've always pronounced it 'toolah'.

Didn't think I'd see my old mucker Nyarlathotep mentioned on here for sure!

Coming soon... Cthulhu Disk brakes and Dagon derailleurs...

I'm surprised that FluffyKittenOfTindalos has never mentioned him/her/it.

I remember asking them about their username some time ago - the Fluffy Kittens of Tindalos (unlike, as any fule kno, the Hounds of Tindalos) can only be summed through curves.

Curves? Presumably curves in a non-euclidean geometry.

Absolutely, But which model of non-euclidean geometry...?  Strange spaces - are they spherical, hyperbolic, or some weird shape we can't imagine?? Hmm??? (I'll get my coat)

Some kind of squirrely hyperbolic space, probably.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Some kind of squirrely hyperbolic space, probably.

 

Ha! I salute you, sir - brilliant!! 

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Some kind of squirrely hyperbolic space, probably.

 

Ha! I salute you, sir - brilliant!! 

I can't help but think that we've drifted a long way from the actual topic, though.

I pronounce Thule to rhyme with pool.

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Some kind of squirrely hyperbolic space, probably.

 

Ha! I salute you, sir - brilliant!! 

I can't help but think that we've drifted a long way from the actual topic, though.

I pronounce Thule to rhyme with pool.

If space and the interweb are curved, maybe if you go far enough off topic you come back into it from the other side...

Anyway: I pronounce it the same as that (to rhyme with 'pool') and always have (even in Nazi or Cthulhu usage...).

Freetime101 wrote:

PRSboy wrote:

I was bored so I looked it up.  Turns out its not actually a 'real' word like Porsche, but a name thought up by the Thulin family, from Sweden, who founded the company.

So you can pronounce it how you like IMO.  Or ask a Swede.

I would run with however everyone else says it, or you at best confuse people or at worst look pretentious.

After all, would you say "I went to Par-ee for the weekend"... 

The only words that should be pronounced properly are Italian ones, because they sound sooo much better in Italian.

SRAM is an acronym from the founders' names.

That's my feelings on it - I still say eye-key-a not ick-ear for ikea 

Bristolian for IKEA is eye-key-awl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Bristol#Dialect

PRSboy wrote:

I was bored so I looked it up.  Turns out its not actually a 'real' word like Porsche, but a name thought up by the Thulin family, from Sweden, who founded the company.

So you can pronounce it how you like IMO.  Or ask a Swede.

I would run with however everyone else says it, or you at best confuse people or at worst look pretentious.

After all, would you say "I went to Par-ee for the weekend"... 

The only words that should be pronounced properly are Italian ones, because they sound sooo much better in Italian.

SRAM is an acronym from the founders' names.

it is a real world. Pythias, a Greek sailor from Marseilles who discovered the British Isles, among other cold northern places, used the Greek word thule to mean somewhere beyond the known world. Until he came here that meant the mysterious, mystical unknown land of Britain.

Its meaning is now more restricted and more precisely defined as 'north of Watford'.