Pronunciation of "gonne"

[TobJohn]

The easiest pronunciation is “hand cannon”

 

[Poguetx]

And Arsenal FC are the Gunners, pronounced Gooners!

 

[oldvet67to89]

no matter how you slice it, they're gone gonnes.

 

[tenngun]

Chaucer got shipwrecked about twenty miles from London. He couldn’t talk to anyone in the village and was thought to be a Frenchman
When gonne was an active word English prononced the K in knight and knife, as in the Danish-English king Knute. An e was at the end of words like wynde, wind, and pronounced windy.
Our English today was given to us by Shakespeare and the printing press
I doubt that gonne was pronounced a proper way anywhere. Even today in the UK there are still local dialects that are almost gibberish to people a few hours away

 

[TFoley]

And Arsenal FC are the Gunners, pronounced Gooners!

'Gooners'? Aren't they some kind of a US kids' TV show?

'Gunners' is pronounced 'gunners' as in 'runners'.

I'd like to hear your version of Llanelli Rugby football Club.

 

[TFoley]

Chaucer got shipwrecked about twenty miles from London. He couldn’t talk to anyone in the village and was thought to be a Frenchman
When gonne was an active word English prononced the K in knight and knife, as in the Danish-English king Knute. An e was at the end of words like wynde, wind, and pronounced windy.
Our English today was given to us by Shakespeare and the printing press
I doubt that gonne was pronounced a proper way anywhere. Even today in the UK there are still local dialects that are almost gibberish to people a couple of miles away

FIFY.

 

[Sam squanch]

Even today in the UK there are still local dialects that are almost gibberish to people a few hours away

I stopped in the north Texas / Oklahoma border area for gas once. A man had a very nice restored 1956 Ford truck there, I tried talking to him, I understood maybe one word out of ten……

 

[TobJohn]

I stopped in the north Texas / Oklahoma border area for gas once. A man had a very nice restored 1956 Ford truck there, I tried talking to him, I understood maybe one word out of ten……

For all that haven’t seen it, I highly recommend watching hot fuzz for the 3 person translation of rural English old person dialect

 

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Being we are not living in Middle Earth or the Middle ages, I think I will stick with gun for gun and gone for gone. Adding an e or anything else and changing pronunciation is just silly in the 21st century!

 

[tenngun]

For all that haven’t seen it, I highly recommend watching hot fuzz for the 3 person translation of rural English old person dialect

That was pretty funny

 

[tenngun]

Back in the seventies there was a book I read on the Trojan war. One question was the war was thought to be about 1250 bc, but the Iliad wasn’t written for more centuries.
How much could be recalled across that length of time
The author referred to a study by a bard in the 1979s living in the north of Scotland who was a story teller. He only spoke Scottish Gallic and was illiterate. He told a new story every day for three years an had not yet repeated one at the writing of the book
All these old epic poetry pieces learned young and stored in this guys head
At least a thousand tales
sherazade had nothing on him

 

[BillinOregon]

I just ran across a reference to William Tyndall translating "dag gaddol" from the Hebrew book of Jonah 2:1 as "greate fyshe" in his 1534 opus. How pronounce ye this?

 

[CaptainVane]

Watching Utube car vids last night and the British narrator kept calling a 2 door car a COUP-AY. I wanted to bich slab that pretentious uppity Englishman.