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 17:58:19 -0500
From:   Mark G
Reply-To:       ballad-l at list.indiana.edu
To:     ballad-l at list.indiana.edu



Growing up in NYC we always pronounced it boo-ey



On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat
<Jon_bartlett at telus.net <mailto:Jon_bartlett at telus.net>> wrote:

     I think "BOO-ee" is the local pronunciation here on the BC coast, too.

     Jon Bartlett



     On 27/03/2014 3:14 PM, Steve Gardham wrote:
>     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 <mailto:dsgood at iphouse.com>
>     > To: ballad-l at list.indiana.edu <mailto: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
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>     > 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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