#Linguistics #Phonetics
A Cold War pronunciation map of southern English towns for #Polish airmen, I believe. Some real crackers in here. "Tanbrydż-Łelz" is a personal favourite. As is "Dżylynem".
@Neverfadingwood that is just lovely
@TazPoltorak It's wonderful, isn't it? Whoever originally drew it up must have had a whale of a time.
@Neverfadingwood @TazPoltorak They were spying in Britain and preparing for the invasion if WW3 were going to happen.
Might have had a good time in Britain while doing this.
@Neverfadingwood The lack of a TH sound in Polish means that "Saufend" comes out exactly the way Londoners would say it.
@petersketch Yes, exactly. Love your avi, by the way. Krtek is a big favourite of mine.
@Neverfadingwood My boys would approve of RAMFED.
@Neverfadingwood It's called Soufend-on-Sji, innit, don't like it there's the djöor
This is great, what's the source? Does it cover more than SE England?
@PMKeeling I wish I knew precisely. It's a thing that's been floating around the Polish internet for years. From what I've been able to ascertain, it was made for Polish pilots in WWII to give their position. I've only ever seen SE England.
Found it. Turns out it's a cold war map, looks like you can buy it here: https://redatlasbook.com/topos_polish
Here's the specific map, a lovely hi-res scan. No more of the UK, but Northern France and Belgium: https://images.jomidav.com/M-31_Polish.html
@PMKeeling Oh fantastic. Thank you so much.
@Neverfadingwood Nice find! I have a friend in "Szuberynes" that I forwarded this to. :D