COMPLETE: ''Mr Rowl'', by D. K. Broster -jo

Elin · Post by **Elin** » September 28th, 2021, 6:10 am

Yes, it's delightful to see Captain Barrington's change of heart. *g*

And thanks! I have fixed and re-uploaded section 19, and uploaded section 21.

regshoe · Post by **regshoe** » September 29th, 2021, 11:52 am

Section 19—this is a bit pedantic, but: your pronunciation of 'mightn't' (now at 27:13) sounds like 'might not' without the O, whereas it's usually more like 'might-nt', with the NT combined as they would usually be at the end of a word, if that makes sense? Like 'couldn't' as 'could-nt' in the same sentence. Otherwise it's fine.

And here is section 20—oh, Hervey

1:29—'Widdeford'—I don't know this one for certain, but the vowel of 'ford' in places names is usually a schwa

5:55, 8:21—'Ganges', as before

9:41—'coxswain', as before

11:12—'she'm cosseting him proper', text has 'she'm for cosseting'

20:20—'I had rather you know nothing', text has 'knew nothing'

21:36, 23:06—'Werner'—the Werner in question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Gottlob_Werner) is German, so I think this should be pronounced the German way, with a V sound

Elin · Post by **Elin** » September 30th, 2021, 5:13 am

I appreciate your pedantry! : ) I never use the contraction "mightn't" myself, so it felt quite unnatural to say it. But if I pretend the first part is "could", it works much better...

Elin · Post by **Elin** » October 1st, 2021, 1:55 pm

Fixed sections 19 and 20 and uploaded section 22!

regshoe · Post by **regshoe** » October 3rd, 2021, 6:29 am

Yes, 'mightn't' is a bit old-fashioned now, I think, you don't hear it very often. Anyway, I'm glad the notes are helpful, and sections 19 and 20 are now both PL OK

Here's section 21.

0:09—'recording by', you usually say 'read by'?

3:43—'the girl not been able', text has 'bein able' (i.e. 'being' without the G)

9:20—'Villa Viciosa'—I'm not sure about this one, my knowledge of Spanish spelling being very limited, but recordings from forvo.com (https://forvo.com/word/villaviciosa/#es_es) suggest either a TH sound or an S sound for the C of 'Viciosa'

11:59—'agility', the G is soft

13:27—'he desired that she might be informed', text has 'desired she might...'

17:24—'if it please your Ladyship', text has 'Lordship'

18:39—'aristocratic' has the stress on the fourth syllable

20:31—'your Ladyship is quite correct,' text has 'Lordship'

Elin · Post by **Elin** » October 4th, 2021, 9:11 am

Fixed and re-uploaded section 21, and uploaded section 23. But no hurry, I've got a bit of a sore throat now, so I can't record corrections right now anyway.

regshoe · Post by **regshoe** » October 7th, 2021, 12:08 pm

Oh dear, I hope you feel better soon!

Section 21 is PL OK, and here's section 22.

1:24—'you or Mrs Webber chose', text has 'choose'

2:50—'deprecatory' has stress on the first and third syllables (the two dictionaries I'm using disagree on which has the main stress, so I suppose it can be either!), and the O is an unstressed schwa

6:43—'tell him that I said so', text has 'that I say so'

9:04—'very unfortunate it came out before him', text has 'it come out'

17:56, 26:59—'atlas'—the second A is pronounced as a schwa (the one at 27:05 is fine)

21:47—'the Stowey river near the mouth', text has 'near its mouth'

Elin · Post by **Elin** » October 9th, 2021, 3:41 am

Thanks! No worries, I'm better and also I tested negative. : )

I fixed and re-uploaded section 22, and uploaded section 24.

regshoe · Post by **regshoe** » October 10th, 2021, 8:12 am

Oh, good

Section 22 is PL OK, and here's section 23. I enjoyed getting to appreciate Hervey and his emotions again, but poor Raoul...!

4:12—'very early the next morning', text has 'the first morning'

11:02—'and now Captain Barrington had somehow...'—I can hear an extra D sound at the end of 'Barrington'

13:09—'purloined' has the stress on the second syllable

18:02—'had he not been light-headed', text has 'half light-headed'

Elin · Post by **Elin** » October 12th, 2021, 5:20 am

Thanks! : ) I've fixed and re-uploaded Section 23, and uploaded Section 25.

regshoe · Post by **regshoe** » October 17th, 2021, 8:38 am

Section 23 is PL OK, and here's section 24, which I really enjoyed listening to—finally the tangle of misunderstandings is undone, and you do read Raoul's anguish and happy realisation very well

0:38—'Rasselas, chapter thirteen'—should be forty-two

1:58—'indefatigable' has the stress on the third syllable

7:04—'you'll really be ill again', text has 'be really ill'

19:19—'can't get my tongue around that', text has 'round' (

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Elin · Post by **Elin** » October 19th, 2021, 12:56 am

Thanks! : ) I've got some trouble with my voice right now (I strained it by talking a lot while outside, and then had to teach for five hours yesterday, plus possibly some sort of virus?) so I can't record the fixes now. But I've uploaded section 26.

regshoe · Post by **regshoe** » October 20th, 2021, 11:39 am

Oh no—yes, rest your voice, and I hope you recover soon!

Here's section 25. Symbolic nectarines, indeed...

0:10—'recording by', should be 'read by'?

0:30—'Rasselas, chapter eleven', should be chapter forty

9:05—'of whom it seems that I had...', text has 'seems I had'

13:34—'But it was not', text has 'But no, it was not'

15:20—'administer', I can't hear the second I

17:58—'ingratiating'—the second syllable is pronounced like 'grey'

23:32—'why had he done...', text has 'why he had'

25:50—'a night or two', text has 'a night or so'

28:57—'more of his profile', text has 'more than his profile'

30:45—’how he got her again', text has 'how he got here'

Elin · Post by **Elin** » October 22nd, 2021, 3:37 am

Thanks! : ) My voice is better, and I've fixed and re-uploaded sections 24 and 25, and also uploaded section 27. Not much left now!

regshoe · Post by **regshoe** » October 24th, 2021, 7:52 am

Sections 24 is PL OK; for section 25 all the corrections are fine, but there's now a fairly long pause after the 'how he got here' correction (after '...for Bedlam at once' at 30:53)—do you want to remove this?

And here's section 26. Broster does make the best use of that Duke of Wellington joke, doesn't she...

3:02—OED has eight slightly different pronunciations for 'luxurious'! —but they all have either a soft SH sound (like the S in 'measure') instead of the Z sound in the X, or a Y sound following it

13:07—'a great deal more than that', text has 'a good deal'

13:27—'condemner'—the second N is silent (which is strange, because the ones in 'condemnation' and 'condemnatory' aren't, but there you go)

17:46—'apricot'—the A is long, like 'ape'

21:53—'so easily to forget him', text has 'forget them'

23:18—'as I do now', text has 'as I do know'

25:48—'Lord Fulgrave shook his head', text has 'shook his hand'

26:50—'you must not show yourself', text has 'mustn't'