Apparently it is pronounced Affleck. I did go and check online afterwards and found this was the case. I am assuming of course that TRIH are correct. (View Post)

You really are deluded sometimes (View Post)

I was listening to The Rest is History this week and found out that for the last 50 or so years I had been pronouncing Auchinleck incorrectly. (View Post)

No one has won until.the war is over. And in the Middle East I would contend that no one ever wins. (View Post)

I would like to mention the story about Tolkein and his publisher who objected to the author pluralising dwarf as dwarves. The publisher tried to quote the Oxford English Dictionary at which point To… (View Post)