PPruNe pronunciation
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PPruNe pronunciation
Okay then, given that this website doesn't receive the almost daily coverage in Canada that it apparently receives in the UK, I do not know the proper pronunciation...
So is it:
A) proone, or
B) pee-proone?
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So is it:
A) proone, or
B) pee-proone?
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Actually the name started in the 40's in a light-hearted RAF publication called 'Tee Emm'(a pun on the more serious 'Technical Memoranda'). Flying Officer Percy Prune was a character who made all the basic cock-ups imaginable as an aid to getting the message across.( Out of interest, the 'gremlins' also came into common use in the same medium)
I suspect Danny knows all this and the name is, therefore 'Pee Prune'. Certainly that's the only pronunciation I've ever heard this side of the Atlantic.
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I suspect Danny knows all this and the name is, therefore 'Pee Prune'. Certainly that's the only pronunciation I've ever heard this side of the Atlantic.
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Personally I like to call it Pee Prune, though used as a verb I use Prune as in "too prune" or "I'm off to do a bit of Pruneing". Alas the other half has now discovered that I am not in the garden when I am doing this, bu@@er!!!
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Ah yes, a tricky one.
I used to ponder this all the time, until I listened to P1 himself refer to 'pee-prune' in one sentence, and 'prune' in the next.
After that, I decided not to worry.
I used to ponder this all the time, until I listened to P1 himself refer to 'pee-prune' in one sentence, and 'prune' in the next.
After that, I decided not to worry.
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In a country in which Leicester is pronounced Less-tuh, why should the pronunciation of PPRuNe be so simple...? 
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth as in mother
Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart,
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful Language? Why man alive!
I learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth as in mother
Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart,
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful Language? Why man alive!
I learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.
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We gave up on pedantry some years ago and simply bowed to usage.
Either prune or pee-prune as the generic word. Both entirely acceptable.
pruners as the collective (usually prefixed by 'a shower of').
and pruning as the verb
All spellings are as close to phoenetic as a scouser can manage.
Regards
Rob Lloyd
Either prune or pee-prune as the generic word. Both entirely acceptable.
pruners as the collective (usually prefixed by 'a shower of').
and pruning as the verb
All spellings are as close to phoenetic as a scouser can manage.
Regards
Rob Lloyd
