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Neverfadingwood 🇺🇦


A Cold War pronunciation map of southern English towns for airmen, I believe. Some real crackers in here. "Tanbrydż-Łelz" is a personal favourite. As is "Dżylynem".

@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 It's called Soufend-on-Sji, innit, don't like it there's the djöor

@Neverfadingwood

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.

@Neverfadingwood

Here's the specific map, a lovely hi-res scan. No more of the UK, but Northern France and Belgium: images.jomidav.com/M-31_Polish

@Neverfadingwood Nice find! I have a friend in "Szuberynes" that I forwarded this to. :D