Douro or Duoro?

uncle tom · Post by **uncle tom** » 08:09 Wed 08 Aug 2007

I'm sure it's Douro - if only because Mayson wouldn't get it wrong on the cover of his book!

But Conky - and a lot of wine merchants - keep spelling it Duoro

Is it careless typing - an alternative spelling - or the Spanish name?

Tom

Conky · Post by **Conky** » 09:14 Wed 08 Aug 2007

Careless typing!!! As if...

I'll have you know, I actually befriended Albert Duoro, who the area was named after. He retired to run a Chippy in St.Helens, and can often be seen in the North & South Labour Club with a Guiness and a Woodbine...

Tom, your going to have to start concentrating...

Alan

Conky · Post by **Conky** » 09:35 Wed 08 Aug 2007

Would it help to know that the Douro, or Duero as the Spanish side is called, comes from the Latin Durius. Which I'm sure you all know means 'quite hard'.
I actually did Latin at school. Its been invaluable through my life!

Alan

Bloody Hell! We've got Jdaw1 on Apostrophe's, Uncle Tom and KillerB on spelling! Have I signed up to a Book Club or something.

Post by **DRT** » 12:48 Wed 08 Aug 2007

Douro, surely!

Alan, what you have signed up to is the most intellectually stimulating and informative port forum on the www

Derek

Frederick Blais · Post by **Frederick Blais** » 14:29 Wed 08 Aug 2007

Duero is the Spanish name btw

Conky · Post by **Conky** » 17:20 Fri 24 Aug 2007

Have you noticed that lots of people want to call Otima, Optima. Understandable when you know the word Optimal.

Post by **DRT** » 22:37 Fri 24 Aug 2007

I have not noticed this - perhaps it's just a Scouse thing?

Luc · Post by **Luc** » 14:58 Thu 30 Aug 2007

Derek T. wrote:I have not noticed this - perhaps it's just a Scouse thing?

Derek , what's a Scouse thing ?

Andy Velebil · Post by **Andy Velebil** » 03:40 Fri 31 Aug 2007

Just depends on how many bottles I've had

Post by **DRT** » 00:50 Sat 01 Sep 2007

Luc wrote:
Derek T. wrote:I have not noticed this - perhaps it's just a Scouse thing?
Derek , what's a Scouse thing ?

A Scouser is someone from Liverpool, like Alan is. He likes to tell us he is from St Helens, which is really just the posh side of Liverpool. But the word posh is relative to the subject.

Scouser's (that is, people from Scouseland [aka Liverpool]) are famous for

music (The Beatles)
The Liver Birds (dodgy 70's TV program)
Football (including violence in the 70's and 80's)
Pebble Mill at One (another dodgy TV program)
Ram Rading (driving a stolen car into a shop window then robbing the shop)
car theft
Keeping Alan in a job
Speaking with a funny accent and mis-pronouncing words

Derek

Conky · Post by **Conky** » 01:48 Sat 01 Sep 2007

Pebble Mill at One???

A programme from Birmingham, with an early Alan Titchmarsh as presenter! Whats the Scouse connection?
Your not thinking about when 'This Morning' used to be filmed at the Albert Dock, with Fred, the Dopey weatherman, jumping on a floating Map?

That would also explain why you also think I'm a Scouser. What do they do up in those Scottish Schools, coz its not English Geography!

Alan

Post by **DRT** » 01:54 Sat 01 Sep 2007

Guilty. Not Pebble Mill - it was the twerp on the Map I was thinking of

I am very good a geography. I know that Scouseland and St Helens are very close together, as is the Albert Dock, Anfield, the place where the blue ones play and the "Ferry, 'cross the Mersy".

In know this because Yosser Hughes was my uncle.

Derek

Luc · Post by **Luc** » 02:28 Sat 01 Sep 2007

Derek T. wrote:
Luc wrote:
Derek T. wrote:I have not noticed this - perhaps it's just a Scouse thing?
Derek , what's a Scouse thing ?
A Scouser is someone from Liverpool, like Alan is. He likes to tell us he is from St Helens, which is really just the posh side of Liverpool. But the word posh is relative to the subject.

Scouser's (that is, people from Scouseland [aka Liverpool]) are famous for
music (The Beatles)
The Liver Birds (dodgy 70's TV program)
Football (including violence in the 70's and 80's)
Pebble Mill at One (another dodgy TV program)
Ram Rading (driving a stolen car into a shop window then robbing the shop)
car theft
Keeping Alan in a job
Speaking with a funny accent and mis-pronouncing words
I'm sorry I asked

Derek

Luc · Post by **Luc** » 02:31 Sat 01 Sep 2007

Derek T. wrote:Guilty. Not Pebble Mill - it was the twerp on the Map I was thinking of

I am very good a geography. I know that Scouseland and St Helens are very close together, as is the Albert Dock, Anfield, the place where the blue ones play and the "Ferry, 'cross the Mersy".

In know this because Yosser Hughes was my uncle.

Derek

''twerp on the mat'' , I really don't care to know how this program developps

Conky · Post by **Conky** » 02:36 Sat 01 Sep 2007

Trust Derek to find the one swear word that sneaks through Killerb's filter.

You just cant take that @!!$er anywhere!

uncle tom · Post by **uncle tom** » 10:06 Sat 01 Sep 2007

Pebble Mill at One (another dodgy TV program)

Actually, the now defunct Pebble Mill studios were in Brum

Translation for those overseas: Brum = Birmingham

Tom

Luc · Post by **Luc** » 21:41 Wed 05 Sep 2007

Frederick Blais wrote:Duero is the Spanish name btw

Fred , I can confirm .
A guy I work with , was born in Spain and pronounces It Duero .
Until started working with him , he had never tasted Port so told him to give Warre's Otima 20 yrs a go . He loved It !
Strangely enough , when I mentionned Peanut butter , he gave me a weird look .

Conky · Post by **Conky** » 10:27 Thu 06 Sep 2007

All of these mistakes can often be put down to not being used to a foreign word, and being used to a similar word of your own language. Dour, or Optimal. But where would we be withouit experts pointing it out, and then explaining apostrophe'''''''s!

Alan

Luc · Post by **Luc** » 14:26 Thu 06 Sep 2007

Who are these experts ?
What do they eat in winter ?
And , more importantly , do they drink there Port young ?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 07:00 Sat 08 Sep 2007

Dear Administrator

Please split this post and put most of it into meaningless drivel.

Alex

Luc · Post by **Luc** » 14:56 Sat 08 Sep 2007

I second the motion . . . We are , of course , using Roberts Rules of Order . . .