[pianotech] Pronunciation

Duaine Hechler dahechler at att.net
Mon May 28 08:57:40 MDT 2012


I sit corrected again, it was Murder on the Orient Express and Sean Connery.

On 05/28/2012 09:48 AM, David Boyce wrote:
> I am of course familiar with the excellent film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Death On The Nile, starring 
> Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis, David Niven etc.  But I can't think of anyone in it pronouncing "pipe" as 
> "peep" instead of ryming with "ripe".  The only thing I can think of is that Hércule Poirot, played by Peter Ustinov, 
> might have pronounced it that way, denoting a Belgian struggling to speak English, and pronouncing it badly.
>
> I dunno.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David.
> www.davidboyce.co.uk
>
>> My apologies, I sit corrected.
>>
>> I got it from a great mystery movie "Death on the Nile".
>>
>> Duaine
>>
>> On 05/28/2012 03:07 AM, David Boyce wrote:
>> > In no part of the UK is "pipe" pronounced "peep". 
>


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