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#1 User is offline   Atanas_K 

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Posted 2006-August-01, 05:17

Like "apple" or like "table" ?
or something quite diferent ?

i know this is the name of a club (on Acol Str.?)
but what the word "acol" means and what the phonetic rule is?

Thank You, native English speakers !
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Posted 2006-August-01, 05:54

Short 'a', as in apple.
It doesn't mean anything, as such.
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Posted 2006-August-01, 06:55

I often wondered how to pronounce Gitelman - suffice it to say that I understand most people get it wrong.
Psych (pron. saik): A gross and deliberate misstatement of honour strength and/or suit length. Expressly permitted under Law 73E but forbidden contrary to that law by Acol club tourneys.

Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. mPosted ImagesPosted ImagetPosted Imager-mPosted ImagendPosted Imageing) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees.

"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"

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Posted 2006-August-01, 07:22

Acol is a village in Kent. Very small village but with an active cultural life. Not sure if they have a bridge club, though.I suppose Acol Street was named after it.

Ac-holt is old English for "Oak Wood" (holt related to German "Holtz"). More info on wikipedia.
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Posted 2006-August-01, 08:40

1eyedjack, on Aug 1 2006, 02:55 PM, said:

I often wondered how to pronounce Gitelman - suffice it to say that I understand most people get it wrong.

How about "Fred"? :)
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Posted 2006-August-01, 08:59

The name is derived from the Acol Street, in London, which was the address of the small bridge club frequented by the developers of the system.
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Posted 2006-August-02, 04:52

To be honest, it sounds a bit like "Let's play some random natural system with 4-card majors, except 1♠ might promise 5 but I wouldn't tell you, and probably a weak 1NT but you like surprises, right? Don't bother asking about our 2-level openings, as I'm not so sure myself." - so yeah, a bit like an apple, maybe red, maybe green, perhaps even yellow, and you've got to hope there's no worm inside. :)
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Posted 2006-August-03, 01:24

Thank you all,

for many years I pronounced it like "table" :)
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Posted 2006-August-03, 01:47

By the way, I just realized I also don't now how "SAYC" sounds :)

My friends in Bulgaria tend to say it like "like"
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Posted 2006-August-03, 01:59

Ha-ha, if you pronounce "SAYC" like "cake" I guess you got confused by some sarcastic post about the Ayatollahs Correct Bidding Lessons by one of my favorite posters:

"For Heaven's sayc, .... "
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Posted 2006-August-03, 02:01

(sr, duplicate post)
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Posted 2006-August-03, 06:49

I pronounce it:

essay why see
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Posted 2006-August-03, 07:37

Atanas_K, on Aug 3 2006, 02:47 AM, said:

By the way, I just realized I also don't now how "SAYC" sounds :)

My friends in Bulgaria tend to say it like "like"

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Posted 2006-August-04, 01:40

kenberg, on Aug 3 2006, 08:37 AM, said:

Atanas_K, on Aug 3 2006, 02:47 AM, said:

By the way, I just realized I also don't now how "SAYC" sounds :)

My friends in Bulgaria tend to say it like "like"

Borrowing from My Fair Lady: No one taught them take instead of tyke?

The children in Bulgaria are very happy when starting school -
30 letters in the alphabet, every sound has a letter,
no rules, no exceptions, no SPELL-HELL :rolleyes:

envious ? :D

I like reading novels in English, understand when someone speaks to me,
I speak so-so, but when the time comes to write ...
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