Please folks : it's LE HAVRE
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doris
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However you pronounce it, it remains N France's answer to Milton Keynes.
Tony Cross
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That's nothing, how did Happisburgh get to be pronounced haze-bru? (It's in Norfolk by the way).
chinita
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...and Stifkey - 'Stookie'.
sailorman
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Mainly coz we bombed the sh ite out of it & concrete was the material of the post war age
westhinder
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Exactly, quite a lot of nautical terms in both English and French were borrowed from Dutch. Most of them, I daresay.
sailorman
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Jacht
Bandit
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Le Havre
I lived there for over a year in 1982, it is a soul less place, largely due to being flattened during the war and callously rebuilt in reinforced concrete and a lot of the new population being immigrants.
When you see post cards of Le Havre in the 1930's broad pavements, café tables and chairs outside, yachts in the inner basin, well dressed people promenading it was a buzzing town.
1982 a lovely evening 7pm in August you would hardly see a cat outside it was dead.
Apparently the Architect who oversaw the rebuilding of the flattened area, the roads stayed as they were but buildings were rebuilt taking up the wide pavements so no café society. When the rebuild was almost finished the architect visited the project climbed the highest building and jumped off (or he was pushed) either way with good reason.
The callous rebuild was shared in Portsmouth, Southampton and Plymouth to name a few, the only town I know that was reasonably well rebuilt was St Malo which was intra muros 80% rebuilt and eeven that has allegedly lost its character to those who knew it before the war.
Le Havre Pronunciation by a Frenchman "le Avre"
I lived there for over a year in 1982, it is a soul less place, largely due to being flattened during the war and callously rebuilt in reinforced concrete and a lot of the new population being immigrants.
When you see post cards of Le Havre in the 1930's broad pavements, café tables and chairs outside, yachts in the inner basin, well dressed people promenading it was a buzzing town.
1982 a lovely evening 7pm in August you would hardly see a cat outside it was dead.
Apparently the Architect who oversaw the rebuilding of the flattened area, the roads stayed as they were but buildings were rebuilt taking up the wide pavements so no café society. When the rebuild was almost finished the architect visited the project climbed the highest building and jumped off (or he was pushed) either way with good reason.
The callous rebuild was shared in Portsmouth, Southampton and Plymouth to name a few, the only town I know that was reasonably well rebuilt was St Malo which was intra muros 80% rebuilt and eeven that has allegedly lost its character to those who knew it before the war.
Le Havre Pronunciation by a Frenchman "le Avre"
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Roberto
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a similar thing happened to Lorient, bombed flat, all destroyed except for the German submarine base, how does one destroy >10m thick concrete walls
Today it's home to the racing fleets: several open 60s, figaro, minis, supermulti, there is Banque populaire tri (the big one) in the video
sailorman
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Roberto
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sailorman
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallboy_bomb
The Tallboy or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb, was an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis and deployed by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force in 1944. It weighed five http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton and, carried by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster, was effective against hardened structures against which earlier,
smaller bombs had proven ineffective.
Although the bomb was aimed at the target during an operation, and proved capable of penetrating deep into hardened reinforced concrete when it hit, this was not the primary intention of Barnes Wallis's design. The bomb was designed to impact close to the target, slide into the soil or rock beneath or around the target, and then detonate, transferring all of its energy into the structure, or creating a camouflet (cavern or crater) into which the target would fall.
The Tallboy or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb, was an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis and deployed by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force in 1944. It weighed five http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton and, carried by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster, was effective against hardened structures against which earlier,
smaller bombs had proven ineffective.
Although the bomb was aimed at the target during an operation, and proved capable of penetrating deep into hardened reinforced concrete when it hit, this was not the primary intention of Barnes Wallis's design. The bomb was designed to impact close to the target, slide into the soil or rock beneath or around the target, and then detonate, transferring all of its energy into the structure, or creating a camouflet (cavern or crater) into which the target would fall.
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jordanbasset
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Ok, I think I have got this cracked, in French you do not pronounce the first letter of the word, so for Example Paris is pronounced 'aris',this will make our next stay in France much easier, thanks for the tip
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LadyInBed
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French with an Irish lilt
saltylegs
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Northern Irish I believe. If you want a real laugh you should hear me on my summer hols in SW France.