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quote: It is now pronounced Purse-ill.
Well, I could never get myself to pronounce Vaughn William's name "Rafe." |
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quote: Well, I could never get myself to pronounce Vaughn William's name "Rafe."
I think that's a very old pronounciation of the name. I rather like it. It suits Ralph Fiennes, who was actually born Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes. Blimey! Fred: quote: On another topic : do you still have drive in cinemas in the States? And what about bowling alleys? I gather that the latter are somewhat in decline. The cinemas were on the way out when I first visited California, over thirty years ago . The whole idea of a drive in or drive through business was so alien to us that we arranged a whole day where we drove in or through various places for everything from banks to restaurants, ending with the cinema. The locals thought this a fine example of European eccentricity There never were such cinemas in Britain though we did have one drive through bank. There is one drive through McDonald's near here (and that's only four years old !) and there are surely a few others, but they are rare.
Drive through banks are very common here. Most places like McDonalds have a drive through. Our Tim Hortons coffee shops have line ups in the morning going out from the pick up window to the main road. Drive in movie theatres are on the decline, but I love them. They are a great place to take the children on a summer evening. There is one up north where we go to the cottage in the summer, and we always make a point of catching a couple of movies. Bowling alleys seem to be around still. Most of them are kind of seedy and run down though. |
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