The Orkney Image Library
Help us get organised! If we haven't correctly identified which area this picture is best listed under, please select it below and click Done!
I recognise one or two faces, anyone with a better memory name folk ?
View Large VersionPicture added on 30 September 2007
Top right corner Douglas Hourston and Mervan Slater
Added by Helen Hourston on 12 December 2007
The Rendall family from Burray, Billy, Robin and Rona
Added by Hilda Rendall on 07 December 2008
Antique, barque, cheque, etc, etc . . . Not one of these is pronounced with a 'cue' sound at the end. Why should barbeque be any different? It isn't: the correct spelling is BARBECUE.
[Au contraire- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/barbeque - Steven]
[Au contraire- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/barbeque - Steven]
Anonymous comment added on 20 June 2011
The CORRECT spelling is BARBECUE. One dodgy reference isn't a sufficient ground for dumbing-down (or poncing-up) the language.
[Whatever you say, mysterious wordsmith - Steven]
[Whatever you say, mysterious wordsmith - Steven]
Anonymous comment added on 22 June 2011
It's the abbreviation BBQ that does it, if it was called a BBC there would be no problem, although there would be certain other confusions caused by that.
Added by Jim Eunson on 24 June 2011
Yes Jim, saying something like, "I'm going to set some dogs on the BBC" could be rather ambiguous.
<< back
Added by Ian Hourston on 25 June 2011
Burray
