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09 Feb 02 - 04:29 PM (#646145) Subject: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST,leeneia I've come across a witty folktale about the origin of the Wrekin, and I want to tell it at a meeting. The only thing I can't seem to find out is how to pronounce it. Does it have a long e or a short? The accent is on the first syllable, nicht wahr? (That's German for "not so?") |
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09 Feb 02 - 04:54 PM (#646156) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: wildlone Leeneia, It is pronounced REEKIN, the W is silent like the P in swimming.***BG*** dave |
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09 Feb 02 - 06:52 PM (#646201) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: Joe_F Note the assonance in the line His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves. |
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09 Feb 02 - 07:43 PM (#646238) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: Grab REEkin - long E. And accent on the first syllable, stimmt. Graham. |
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10 Feb 02 - 03:10 PM (#646674) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST,leeneia Thank you all. Wildlone, I assume you refer to when Psmith went pswimming. |
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10 Feb 02 - 05:15 PM (#646759) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: Liz the Squeak Funny, after I climbed it I pronounced it F***ing Wrecking!!! (It was a loong looonnng time ago...) LTS |
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10 Feb 02 - 06:50 PM (#646824) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: Joe_F Liz: 1958, in my case. There was a searchlight on the summit to keep planes from banging into it. |
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10 Feb 02 - 07:38 PM (#646875) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST,HARVEY ANDREWS for all friends across the Atlantic I should point out that the Wrekin (reekin) is a fairly small pimple type hill on a flat plain in Shropshire, England. I live fifteen miles away and it dominates our landscape. The story of its origin is very interesting. next time you holiday over here, forget crowded London and try Shropshire. There's more to see and do in the shadow of the Wrekin than you could imagine. |
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10 Feb 02 - 07:43 PM (#646879) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST Like Church Stretton? Oh what joy... |
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10 Feb 02 - 09:30 PM (#646974) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST,leeneia That's not a pimple, it's a Precambrian monadnock of rhyolite and granophyre. Show a little respect.
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10 Feb 02 - 11:01 PM (#647029) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: katlaughing So when Psmith went pswimming did he catch any pfish or just pneumonia? Here's an interesting photo of the Wrekin. Thanks, always pnice to learn about pnew places! kat |
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11 Feb 02 - 04:54 AM (#647143) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST Interesting page about the Wrekin. (warning - page has nasty embedded midi) |
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11 Feb 02 - 06:03 AM (#647167) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: Trevor Round these parts we have a saying that if somebody is taking a while to get to the point, or if you're going the 'scenic' route on a journey, then they are 'going all around the Wrekin'. Nice bit of rock climbing on Ippiken's Rock as well. I think there's a band somewhere round here called Wreakin' Havoc as well. |
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11 Feb 02 - 01:07 PM (#647360) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: wildlone Here is a site for more info about Shropshire and its history Click here dave |
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11 Feb 02 - 03:37 PM (#647474) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST,leeneia I really liked that infrared photo of the Wrekin. So clear! Now what we need is a traditional tune with "Wrekin" in the title. I don't know whether to believe that there is band called Wrekin Havoc or not. But if there is, I will hire them when I start up the tavern of my dreams, a non-smoking place called Bar None. |
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13 Feb 02 - 03:45 AM (#648923) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: Steve Parkes Everywhere I'ved lived, it seems I could look out and see the Wrekin and (in a different direction) the telecomms tower at Pye Green. Here in Milton Keynes now, the Xscape roof does a passable impression of the former, but there's no equivalent of the latter ... Steve |
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13 Feb 02 - 11:05 AM (#649132) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: Brian Hoskin I can confirm that there is a band called Wrekin Havoc (full name Wrekin Havoc Mountain Boys), I'm not entirely sure that they are still going, they might recently have packed it in. If they are still going then you can catch them playing on alternate Sundays at the Cornhouse in Shrewsbury. There's a picture of the band on the Cornhouse website: Brian |
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13 Feb 02 - 04:42 PM (#649378) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: Joe_F The poem by Housman that I mentioned earlier might well be -- indeed, may well have been -- set to music. |
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10 May 21 - 08:22 AM (#4105486) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST The Housman poem referring to the Wrekin (Shropshire Lad XXXI) has indeed been set to music. Mike Raven used a traditional tune (but I can't remember which, offhand, if I actually knew). More famously, perhaps, it's the first part of Vaughan Williams' song cycle 'On Wenlock Edge'. |
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10 May 21 - 08:27 AM (#4105488) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST There's also this song that may or may not be of interest:'Wrekin (The Marches Line). https://youtu.be/-3qdIW1h5pA |
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10 May 21 - 02:29 PM (#4105535) Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation From: GUEST On the Welsh side, I.e.Oswestry way, they do pronounce it with a short e. |