COMPLETE:History of England - v.1, ch.1, by Macaulay - NF/ll

kayray · Post by **kayray** » March 23rd, 2006, 1:25 pm

Part 12:

http://kayray.org/audiobooks/librivox/misc/historyofengland01ch01_12_macaulay.mp3

Should be finished uploading in about 4 minutes. (finished file is 25.95MB)

jimmowatt · Post by **jimmowatt** » March 23rd, 2006, 3:51 pm

kayray wrote:Part 12:

Should be finished uploading in about 4 minutes. (finished file is 25.95MB)

Many thanks
I have it now.
Just started listening and it sounds as delightful as ever.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » March 23rd, 2006, 4:22 pm

jimmowatt wrote: Just started listening and it sounds as delightful as ever.

:)

I took a listen to one your your chapters the other day, #5 I think, and enjoyed it thoroughly! Good job!

jimmowatt · Post by **jimmowatt** » March 24th, 2006, 12:40 pm

kayray wrote:Thanks you, Jim, I'd be glad to take #12!

I hope my American and/or faulty pronunciations do not make you weep and Macaulay roll in his grave

Actually there have been very few (from what I can discern) strange pronunciations.

I can only recall one that jarred slightly and that was Edinburgh.
It would absolutely make sense to pronounce it Edinberg as burghers is pronounced the same as burgers but alas no.
It's actually Edin burra. The stresses being mostly on the Ed then a little stress on the b.

Place names can be very strange things.
Guess how this one is pronounced:

Towcester

or this one:

Leicester

and names of people - the famously strange one:

Featherstonehaugh

kayray · Post by **kayray** » March 24th, 2006, 12:55 pm

jimmowatt wrote:
I can only recall one that jarred slightly and that was Edinburgh.
It would absolutely make sense to pronounce it Edinberg as burghers is pronounced the same as burgers but alas no.
It's actually Edin burra. The stresses being mostly on the Ed then a little stress on the b.

Ah, yes, as I was reading it I wondered about that... but I thought it might sound affected to burr the end that way. Thanks for the tip! Next time i come acress Edinburgh I'll know what to do :)

jimmowatt wrote: Place names can be very strange things.
Guess how this one is pronounced:
Towcester
or this one:
Leicester
and names of people - the famously strange one:
Featherstonehaugh

Well, I'd guess LY-ster for Leicester, and maybe TOE-ster for Towcester... but I haven't a clue about Featherstonehaugh... Myabe FAW-ston-ee or something equally non-intuitive.

Cholmondely is a favorite of mine :) It's CHUM-lee, isn't it?

I'm currently addicted to the wonderful Teaching Company lecture series on the History of the English Language. It's all fascinating, but my favorites are the earlier lectures where the changes from Old to Middle to Modern English are detailed, and the influences of Norman French and other languages. Good stuff.

AaronH · Post by **AaronH** » March 24th, 2006, 3:00 pm

Part 13:

28:33, 26.14 MB

http://203.109.145.106/librivox/historyofengland01ch01_13_macaulay.mp3

This is my first recording/editing of any length so would appreciate any criticism/feedback - thanks! Please let me know if I need to fix anything...

I hope my kiwi accent hasn't mangled the place names too much

Aaron

jimmowatt · Post by **jimmowatt** » March 24th, 2006, 3:01 pm

jimmowatt wrote: Place names can be very strange things.
Guess how this one is pronounced:
Towcester
or this one:
Leicester
and names of people - the famously strange one:
Featherstonehaugh

kayray wrote: Well, I'd guess LY-ster for Leicester, and maybe TOE-ster for Towcester... but I haven't a clue about Featherstonehaugh... Myabe FAW-ston-ee or something equally non-intuitive.

Wow!
You got Towcester, no problem.
Leicester, close. That's Lesster.
Featherstonehaugh is Fanshaw (it makes no sense whatsoever).

kayray wrote: Cholmondely is a favorite of mine It's CHUM-lee, isn't it?

I believe so.

kayray wrote: I'm currently addicted to the wonderful Teaching Company lecture series on the History of the English Language. It's all fascinating, but my favorites are the earlier lectures where the changes from Old to Middle to Modern English are detailed, and the influences of Norman French and other languages. Good stuff.

I haven't heard that one.
It sounds intriguing.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » March 24th, 2006, 4:56 pm

Link is here:

http://www.teach12.com/ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/800.asp

Only $50 to download all the audiofiles! And worth every penny. Or, y'know, they might have it on CD at your public library, or perhaps you can borrow it from a friend... ;-)

I can't say enough good things about this course. I've been listening to it every day for months now, and I still haven't reached the end (I listen to each lecture over and over again). Highly recommended.

Ok I'm gonna go read some Fanny Hill now!

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » March 24th, 2006, 5:09 pm

That sounds really interesting, Kara!

We're just listening to Northanger Abbey and so far have come across three different ways of readers' pronunciations of Northanger (one with the g as in gelcoat, one with the last part pronounced as in the word 'anger' (with a clearly stressed, hard g) and one with the g hardly pronouced at all - like cliff-hanger). I think that has exhausted the possibilities, although the a could still be pronounced like in angel, I suppose. :)

AaronH · Post by **AaronH** » March 25th, 2006, 1:35 pm

AaronH wrote:Part 13:

28:33, 26.14 MB

http://203.109.145.106/librivox/historyofengland01ch01_13_macaulay.mp3

This is my first recording/editing of any length so would appreciate any criticism/feedback - thanks! Please let me know if I need to fix anything...

I hope my kiwi accent hasn't mangled the place names too much

Aaron

I forget to mention my details are on http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/ListOfReadersCatalogNames

Aaron

jimmowatt · Post by **jimmowatt** » March 25th, 2006, 3:24 pm

AaronH wrote:Part 13:

28:33, 26.14 MB

http://203.109.145.106/librivox/historyofengland01ch01_13_macaulay.mp3

I thank you.
Just listening to it now.
A nice clear recording.
It sounds absolutely fine so far.

AaronH wrote: This is my first recording/editing of any length so would appreciate any criticism/feedback - thanks! Please let me know if I need to fix anything...

Well, I shall leave any comments regarding style to others. I've only just begun this myself so still experimenting to improve my recordings.

AaronH wrote:
I hope my kiwi accent hasn't mangled the place names too much

I haven't noticed any serious mangling and your accent is very pleasing to mine ear.

jimmowatt · Post by **jimmowatt** » March 29th, 2006, 5:30 am

I now have my part 11 done.
A yousendit link here for anyone who wants a listen
http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1DEPKWRL8ZS371F4OT3G5NSRX4

dilini · Post by **dilini** » April 2nd, 2006, 10:46 pm

Sorry for being late

Part 09

Dilini Jayasinghe
www.dilini.tk

jimmowatt · Post by **jimmowatt** » April 3rd, 2006, 2:54 pm

dilini wrote:Sorry for being late

Part 09

Dilini Jayasinghe
www.dilini.tk

Many thanks.

First impressions are that the beginning in particular is very quiet indeed.
You have a lovely clear voice but it's very difficult to hear for the first 30 seconds.
I don't know if it would sound odd but do you want to try re-recording that bit and then editing it into the recording ?

[EDIT] Forget that. I've edited it and it's fine now.

By the way
Followed your link.
Liked the Sinhalese jukebox, partricularly the film music.

dilini · Post by **dilini** » April 13th, 2006, 12:18 am

jimmowatt wrote:
dilini wrote:Sorry for being late

Part 09

Dilini Jayasinghe
www.dilini.tk
Many thanks.

First impressions are that the beginning in particular is very quiet indeed.
You have a lovely clear voice but it's very difficult to hear for the first 30 seconds.
I don't know if it would sound odd but do you want to try re-recording that bit and then editing it into the recording ?

[EDIT] Forget that. I've edited it and it's fine now.

By the way
Followed your link.
Liked the Sinhalese jukebox, partricularly the film music.

Thanks Jim,
Its great to hear, you like our music

So sorry, loaded with work :
Part 14