[Spellyans] <kk> and <ck>

[Craig Weatherhill]

Which hotel was that, Ray?  What's its name now?

Craig

On 19 Kev 2008, at 09:38, Ray Chubb wrote:

> Apparently there was an Hotel Bukar or Bukar Hotel in Redruth which  
> has changed its name since.  It was allegedly haunted.  This  
> corruption of the word would seem to tie in with Craig's posited  
> pronunciation.
>
> On 18 Kev 2008, at 21:13, Craig Weatherhill wrote:
>
>> Traditional pronunciation of "bucca" is not easily described but  
>> I'll do my best.  The U isn't quite the U of "buck" and isn't the  
>> short OO of "book", but about halfway between the two.
>>
>> Craig
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>> On 17 Kev 2008, at 22:38, Thomas Leigh wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Craig Weatherhill <craig at agantavas.org 
>>> > wrote:
>>> KK proposed the awful (and utterly unprecedented) spelling  
>>> <boekka>, even though the traditional pronunciation of <bucca>  
>>> never remotely resembled the recommended KK pronunciation(s) of  
>>> <oe>.
>>>
>>> Can you indicate what the traditional pronunciation of <bucca> is?  
>>> (For those of us who are curious and not Cornish!)
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
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