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Post by badpenny on Dec 30, 2021 16:35:32 GMT
I recall this song, which supplied a calmer understanding of the disturbed society in which I was then growing up: *** Or this one, about England. Whether my own New England or Roger Whittaker's Old England, the very word England says home to me.
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Post by mortified on Dec 31, 2021 9:55:06 GMT
I do remember him. And I just checked - he's still alive. A sprightly 85.
He was on TV quite a lot in the UK in the 60's and 70's. Light entertainment shows etc. Famous as much for his whistling as his singing.
Not my kind of thing when I was growing up but my mum liked him.
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Post by kursaal75 on Jan 1, 2022 0:22:31 GMT
He look like one of my uncle's and he hated it when I called him Roger
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Post by badpenny on Jan 12, 2022 16:37:18 GMT
I do remember him. And I just checked - he's still alive. A sprightly 85. He was on TV quite a lot in the UK in the 60's and 70's. Light entertainment shows etc. Famous as much for his whistling as his singing. Not my kind of thing when I was growing up but my mum liked him. I. myself, am quite the student of English dialects, and am quite keen on the fact that, in his "New World in the Morning" song, he pronounces non-pre-vocalic "l" when he pronounces the word "talk", while also (sometimes) pronoucing non-pre-vocalic "r", contrary to standard RP English. It does quite fascinate me that my own Great Lakes variety of American English also (ALWAYS!) pronounces non-pre-vocalic "r" while not pronouncing non-pre-vocalic "l". Tell me. does Mr. Whittaker's dialect indicate an origin from any specific locality within England?
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Post by castlependragon on Jan 12, 2022 20:35:46 GMT
I have a few of his songs on my phone i quite enjoy, it takes all sort of music to make the world go round
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Post by mortified on Jan 13, 2022 6:52:34 GMT
I do remember him. And I just checked - he's still alive. A sprightly 85. He was on TV quite a lot in the UK in the 60's and 70's. Light entertainment shows etc. Famous as much for his whistling as his singing. Not my kind of thing when I was growing up but my mum liked him. I. myself, am quite the student of English dialects, and am quite keen on the fact that, in his "New World in the Morning" song, he pronounces non-pre-vocalic "l" when he pronounces the word "talk", while also (sometimes) pronouncing non-pre-vocalic "r", contrary to standard RP English. It does quite fascinate me that my own Great Lakes variety of American English also (ALWAYS!) pronounces non-pre-vocalic "r" while not pronouncing non-pre-vocalic "l". Tell me. does Mr. Whittaker's dialect indicate an origin from any specific locality within England? I think Roger Whittaker was born in Africa; Kenya maybe? That may explain any dialectic anomalies. Although that's just a guess on my part. My dialect barely sounds like English at all
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