Fwd: RE: Eddystone Light Fwd: Re: buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]

[Dan Goodman]

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Subject:        RE: Eddystone Light Fwd: Re: buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]
Date:   Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:14:21 +0000
From:   Steve Gardham
Reply-To:       ballad-l at list.indiana.edu
To:     Ballad List <ballad-l at list.indiana.edu>



My good friend and fellow collector Jim Eldon informed me a few years
ago that the Bridlington, Yorkshire fishermen pronounce it 'BOOee' and I
had never heard of it before. The only pronunciation I'd ever heard,
living in Hull 30 miles away, is BOY, though we normally call those on
the Humber 'markers'.

SteveG

  > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:01:50 -0500
  > From: dsgood at iphouse.com
  > To: ballad-l at list.indiana.edu
  > Subject: Eddystone Light Fwd: Re: buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]
  >
  > The American Dialect Society mailing list had a discussion on
  > pronunciation(s) of "buoy."
  >
  >
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  > Subject: Re: buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]
  > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:07:44 -0400
  > From: Laurence Horn
  > Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
  > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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  > Poster: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
  > Subject: Re: buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]
  >
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  > You can find a bunch of different versions (52) of "Eddystone Light" on
  > iTunes; the excerpts I checked all have /@hoi/ and /boi/ (and the bit, I
  > just after that couple, about how one of the offspring was exhibited as
  > a talking fish and another served in a chafing dish; all very tragic),
  > but I didn't come across any (without having checked all 52) that
  > included the final spoken couplet below. I guess it was the old
  > "Brothers Four" version that I dimly recall.
  >
  > LH
  >
  >
  > On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
  >
  > > Who's singing and can you give us an audio URL?
  > >
  > > Joel
  > >
  > > At 3/24/2014 01:51 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:
  > >> ...
  > >> My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light.
  > >> He slept with a mermaid one fine night.
  > >> Out of this union there came three;
  > >> A porgy, a porpoise, and the other was me.
  > >>
  > >> One day as I was trimming the glim,
  > >> Singing a snatch of the evening's hymn;
  > >> I heard a voice shouting "Ahoy!"
  > >> And there was my mother, sitting on a boy.
  > >>
  > >> Spoken: That is, a buoy what's for ships that sail;
  > >> And not a boy what's a juvenile male.
  > >>
  > >> --
  > >> Dan Goodman
  > >
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  >

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Dan Goodman
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