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 Wed 17 Jun 15 15:50 
 Pronouncing handles - Armel Coussine
Mine is easy enough, but how does Lygonos pronounce Lygonos? The 'y' can be long or short, and the emphasis can be on the first or second syllable, so there are several possible pronunciations. The one I favour is LigOnos. But would the man himself agree?
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 15:56 
 Pronouncing handles - WillDeBeest
In my head I hear it as LIE-gun-oss. Makes me think of the Lygon Arms in Broadway, which gave us lovely tea and biscuits while giving us its wedding-venue pitch. Then we saw the prices and fled. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, then Governor of the Bank of England, was in the lobby as we arrived.
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 16:05 
 Pronouncing handles - Armel Coussine
>> the Lygon Arms in Broadway, which gave us lovely tea and biscuits while giving us its wedding-venue pitch. Then we saw the prices and fled.

I stayed there once. It's a stuffy place for managing director types, very luxurious but somewhat charmless I thought. I was supposed to be giving a lecture to some marketing types on something or other, but I hadn't prepared properly and was utter rubbish. Another low spot in a career spent bumping along the seabed.

And I pronounced it in my head the Liggon Arms...
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 16:10 
 Pronouncing handles - WillDeBeest
Liggon Arms

...and you may well be right. My visit was nearly 20 years ago and - as noted - didn't last long.
}:---)
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 18:05 
 Pronouncing handles - Armel Coussine
>> a career spent bumping along the seabed.

... and very occasionally shooting up to the surface in an uncontrolled manner, suffering severe bends as a result. I think my visit to the ghastly Lygon Arms was one of those...
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 17:43 
 Pronouncing handles - Stuartli
>> Makes me think of the Lygon Arms in Broadway>>

Stayed there a few times. Lovely place but certainly not for your average wage earner...:-)

We were told the pronunciation was "Liggun" Arms...
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 15:58 
 Pronouncing handles - Lygonos
Lie-gon-oss

Apparently named after a Costa Rican porn star if you believe urbandictionary.

In the Cotswolds there is a swanky hotel I stayed at a few years ago called the Lygon Arms (purely coincidentally) where it is pronounced Lih-gon.

*edit* - aye that's the one WdB :-)

Small world, eh?
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 16:01 
 Pronouncing handles - Slidingpillar
And there I was expecting a thread on fork 'andles
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 16:23 
 Pronouncing handles - Londoner
In a previous job, a new manager (who turned out to be a really good bloke) introduced himself to us by saying that in his former role his staff had all referred to him as "Sir"......spelled C-U-R.
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 16:24 
 Pronouncing handles - No FM2R
Ohhhh, so that's why they called me sunt.
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 16:27 
 Pronouncing handles - WillDeBeest
Was this in the seventeenth century, Londers?
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 17:12 
 Pronouncing handles - Londoner
>> Was this in the seventeenth century, Londers?
>>
Methinks thou takest the amber liguid that floweth forth from the bladder.
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 17:20 
 Pronouncing handles - WillDeBeest
"Prithee, fool?"

"No thanks, I've just been."
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 17:35 
 Pronouncing handles - Armel Coussine
>> Methinks thou takest the amber liguid that floweth forth

Good spelling Londoner, in keeping with the thread.

Perhaps 'lyguid' would be even better, but you can't have everything.
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 16:28 
 Pronouncing handles - Dog
>>And there I was expecting a thread on fork 'andles

I reddit as handies :o}
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 Wed 17 Jun 15 17:45 
 Pronouncing handles - Stuartli
>> >>And there I was expecting a thread on fork 'andles>>

My first thought was "handuls", followed by why worry about double barrel surnames...
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