Gulliver
edit==Laputa
==Balnibarbi
===Location
===Description
==Luggnagg
==Glubdubdrib
==Japan (Gulliver’s Travels)
===Location/Description
===Satire
==Source
- Jonathan Swift: Guliver's Travels Oxford World Classics (1986, reprint 2008) introduction Claude Rawson, explantory notes Ian Higgins
Bristol
editThe city of Bristol, UK/in the former county of Avon has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom through several parliamentary constituencies:
| 1295–1885 | 1885–1918 | 1918–1950 | 1950–1974 | 1974–1983 | 1983— | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol | 1295–1885 | ||||||
| Bristol North | 1885–1950 | ||||||
| Bristol East | 1885–1950 | 1983— | |||||
| Bristol Central | 1918–1974 | ||||||
| Bristol North East | 1950:1983 | ||||||
| Bristol North West | 1950:1983 | ||||||
| Bristol South | 1885– | ||||||
| Bristol South East | 1950:1983 | ||||||
| Bristol West | 1885– | ||||||
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Uranus, Footnote
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| Because, in the English-speaking world, the latter sounds like "your anus", the former pronunciation also saves embarrassment: as Pamela Gay, an astronomer at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, noted on her podcast, to avoid "being made fun of by any small schoolchildren ... when in doubt, don't emphasise anything and just say /ˈjʊərənəs/. And then run, quickly."[1] | In the English-speaking world, both pronunciations have unfortunate homonyms; “yer-anus” for the latter, and “urinous” for the former. This is due to the changes in vowel sounds in English over time, and does not occur in other languages eg “Uranus” (/ˈʊrɑːnʊs/) in French and German; “Urano” (/ˈʊrɑːnoʊ/) Italian, Spanish; and “Uran” (/ˈʊrɑːn/) Polish, Russian. |
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| Because, in the English-speaking world, the latter sounds like "your anus", the former pronunciation also saves embarrassment: as Pamela Gay, an astronomer at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, noted on her podcast, to avoid "being made fun of by any small schoolchildren ... when in doubt, don't emphasise anything and just say /ˈjʊərənəs/. And then run, quickly."[2] | In the English-speaking world, both pronunciations have unfortunate homonyms; “yer-anus” for the latter, and “urinous” for the former. Podcaster CGP Grey comments that Bode, being German (where the pronunciation sounds like (/ˈʊrɑːnʊs/) couldn't have known the trouble he was causing, and regrets the planet wasn't named after King George, as then the name wouldn't be a thing to avoid, but a starting point for discussing what is different about the planet.[3] |
- ^ Cain, Frasier (November 12, 2007). "Astronomy Cast: Uranus". Retrieved April 20, 2009.
- ^ Cain, Frasier (November 12, 2007). "Astronomy Cast: Uranus". Retrieved April 20, 2009.
- ^ CGP Grey "How to pronounce Uranus"