[Spellyans] <kk> and <ck>

Ray Chubb ray at spyrys.org
Sat Dec 20 08:53:52 GMT 2008


Its now called the 'Hollies' oposite the British Legion in Penryn  
Street.


On 19 Kev 2008, at 11:17, Craig Weatherhill wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17 Kev 2008, at 22:38, Thomas Leigh wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>> Ray Chubb
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>> Portreth
>> Kernow
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