Mispelled "exotic" boat names

[haydude]

Please forgive my pedantry which is the product of a "traditional" education (not my fault then). Despite being a foreigner I make my best efforts to speak and write correct English and I get upset when I see beautiful names horribly misspelled and forever stuck on boats by people who do not even make the effort to research the name they adopt.

This month happened on Yachting Monthly which published pictures of a boat carrying the mispelled "Azzura".

The correct spelling is "Azzurra" and it should be pronounced with hard "Z" like a "TS" (English speaking people tend to soften the Z making it sound like an "s"). Also the R should be rolling and hard.

Making an attempt to a phonetic spelling: "Atsurrah"

 

[Mariner69]

Making an attempt to a phonetic spelling: "Atsurrah"

Bless you.

 

[25931]

Please forgive my pedantry which is the product of a "traditional" education (not my fault then). Despite being a foreigner I do my best efforts to speak and write correct English and I get upset when I see beautiful names horribly mispelled and forever stuck on boats by people who do not even make the effort to research the name they adopt.

This month happened on Yachting Monthly which published pictures of a boat carrying the mispelled "Azzura".

The correct spelling is "Azzurra" and it should be pronounced with hard "Z" like a "TS" (English speaking people tend to soften the Z making it sound like an "s"). Also the R should be rolling and hard.

Making an attempt to a phonetic spelling: "Atsurrah"

Please forgive my pedantry but "do my best efforts" isn't correct English.
I have known cases of deliberate mis-spelling in order to circumvent the Bluebook regulations.

 

[awol]

Please forgive my pedantry but "do my best efforts" isn't correct English.
I have known cases of deliberate mis-spelling in order to circumvent the Bluebook regulations.

Surely you meant "comply with"?

 

[peterb]

Please forgive my pedantry but "do my best efforts" isn't correct English.
I have known cases of deliberate mis-spelling in order to circumvent the Bluebook regulations.

Correct but not helpful. 'Make my best efforts' would be better.

One of the advantages of English as a language is that even when mistakes are made the meaning seems to come through. There are plenty of English people who could not write a note as correctly as the OP.

 

[haydude]

Correct but not helpful. 'Make my best efforts' would be better.

Thank you!

 

[prv]

I have known cases of deliberate mis-spelling in order to circumvent the Bluebook regulations.

Surely you meant "comply with"?

I guess it's both, strictly speaking

Pete

 

[25931]

Surely you meant "comply with"?

I used "circumvent" to mean getting round in order to appear to comply with.

 

[Rigger Mortice]

Please forgive my pedantry which is the product of a "traditional" education (not my fault then). Despite being a foreigner I make my best efforts to speak and write correct English and I get upset when I see beautiful names horribly mispelled and forever stuck on boats by people who do not even make the effort to research the name they adopt.

Please forgive my pedantry, which is the product of me being a pain in the bum. You have misspelled "misspelled". "Misspelled" is spelt "misspelled" not "mispelled". It is misspelled with one "s". It is not misspelled with a double "s".
However, if it is a boat name it may be correctly spelt as "mispelled" if the owner has deliberately decided to misspell "misspelled".

Clear?

 

[gregship]

IS IT ME

And there i was thinking the replies would be about boat names

 

[PeteCooper]

The name of my boat is incorrect. The name is Amaranthe, but should be Amaranth. Do I care? Not one jot.

 

[Stork_III]

The name of my boat is incorrect. The name is Amaranthe, but should be Amaranth. Do I care? Not one jot.

You're not a Swedish rock star then.

 

[rotrax]

Please forgive my pedantry which is the product of a "traditional" education (not my fault then). Despite being a foreigner I make my best efforts to speak and write correct English and I get upset when I see beautiful names horribly misspelled and forever stuck on boats by people who do not even make the effort to research the name they adopt.

This month happened on Yachting Monthly which published pictures of a boat carrying the mispelled "Azzura".

The correct spelling is "Azzurra" and it should be pronounced with hard "Z" like a "TS" (English speaking people tend to soften the Z making it sound like an "s"). Also the R should be rolling and hard.

Making an attempt to a phonetic spelling: "Atsurrah"

Sounds like a lot of Bollox to me!

 

[Wansworth]

I like those little 22 footes called "Ondine" !

 

[vyv_cox]

Surely if the owners called the boat Azzura that is the spelling they wanted? So by definition it is correct.
In the past the name Duane was spelt 'Duane'. Nowadays there are probably more ways of spelling it than can possibly be imagined. (Duwayne, Duwane, Douwayne, to name but three). Are all of them incorrect?
A friend's daughter is named Jacqueline. Her teacher told her that it is not spelt like that, and she should change it!

 

[jfm]

glass house dweller throws stones

...misspelled ... mispelled

The irony is amusing.

 

[sailorman]

Surely if the owners called the boat Azzura that is the spelling they wanted? So by definition it is correct.
In the past the name Duane was spelt 'Duane'. Nowadays there are probably more ways of spelling it than can possibly be imagined. (Duwayne, Duwane, Douwayne, to name but three). Are all of them incorrect?
A friend's daughter is named Jacqueline. Her teacher told her that it is not spelt like that, and she should change it!

A friend's daughter is named Jacqueline. Her teacher told her that it is not spelt like that, and she should change it!
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not a French teacher then

 

[RichardS]

A friend's daughter is named Jacqueline. Her teacher told her that it is not spelt like that, and she should change it!

I'm probably being really thick here Vyv - but how else could you spell Jacqueline?

Or is that the point?

Richard

 

[LittleSister]

This month happened on Yachting Monthly which published pictures of a boat carrying the mispelled "Azzura".

The correct spelling is "Azzurra"

Well, if you do a Google search for Azzura, excluding any results for Azurra, you get over 4,000,000 hits. So it obviously means something to somebody, and is not necessarily 'wrong'. (I would guess it's a related word in a different language or dialect.)

 

[guernseyman]

Oh, by the way, "Hey Jude" is spelled "Hey Jude".