it should be (as if Horl - ee)

Most sources claim Halley rhymes with alley. I have heard it pronounced as rhyming with daily, but the double "l" suggests the former is correct, and conforms to normal English pronunciation rules. Now were he Welsh…

Apparently the pronunciation (as if Hal-eee) is incorrect, apparently it should be (as if Horl - ee) as, it has been claimed, that is how Edmund Halley pronounced his surname.

According to Wikipedia, the first vowel in Edmond/Edmund Halley’s surname should be pronounced /æ/ (as in ‘trap’).

Apparently there is more "strawberry flavour" in the world than the amount of strawberries that would be needed to extract that amount of "strawberry flavour".

Going back to the Bayeux tapestry programme, that programme has a rather nice close up of the depiction of the tapestry's comet, thought to be Halley's comet, though before it was given that name.

Apparently the pronunciation (as if Hal-eee) is incorrect, apparently it should be (as if Horl - ee) as, it has been claimed, that is how Edmund Halley pronounced his surname.

William

William wrote:

Somewhere in a thread in these forums, mention was made of a BBC programme about the Bayeux Tapestry.

The forum search facility is your friend!

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=993#p993

By the way, William, did you see this post on that page?

Somewhere in a thread in these forums, mention was made of a BBC programme about the Bayeux Tapestry.

The forum search facility is your friend!

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=993#p993

The part near the end showing what it is now believed some of the tapestry looked like when it was produced, before the colours faded, is amazing.

William

This is a thread to hopefully make that information more widely known.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m … x-tapestry

William