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Douro or Duoro?
Posted: 07:09 Wed 08 Aug 2007
by uncle tom
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
Posted: 08:14 Wed 08 Aug 2007
by Conky
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
Posted: 08:35 Wed 08 Aug 2007
by Conky
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. 
Posted: 11:48 Wed 08 Aug 2007
by DRT
Douro, surely!
Alan, what you have signed up to is the most intellectually stimulating and informative port forum on the www
Derek
Posted: 13:29 Wed 08 Aug 2007
by Frederick Blais
Duero is the Spanish name btw
Posted: 16:20 Fri 24 Aug 2007
by Conky
Have you noticed that lots of people want to call Otima, Optima. Understandable when you know the word Optimal.
Posted: 21:37 Fri 24 Aug 2007
by DRT
I have not noticed this - perhaps it's just a Scouse thing?
Posted: 13:58 Thu 30 Aug 2007
by Luc
Derek T. wrote:I have not noticed this - perhaps it's just a Scouse thing?
Derek , what's a Scouse thing ?
Posted: 02:40 Fri 31 Aug 2007
by Andy Velebil
Just depends on how many bottles I've had
Posted: 23:50 Fri 31 Aug 2007
by DRT
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
Posted: 00:48 Sat 01 Sep 2007
by Conky
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
Posted: 00:54 Sat 01 Sep 2007
by DRT
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
Posted: 01:28 Sat 01 Sep 2007
by Luc
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
Posted: 01:31 Sat 01 Sep 2007
by Luc
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
Posted: 01:36 Sat 01 Sep 2007
by Conky
Trust Derek to find the one swear word that sneaks through Killerb's filter.
You just cant take that @!!$er anywhere!
Posted: 09:06 Sat 01 Sep 2007
by uncle tom
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
Posted: 20:41 Wed 05 Sep 2007
by Luc
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 .
Posted: 09:27 Thu 06 Sep 2007
by Conky
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
Posted: 13:26 Thu 06 Sep 2007
by Luc
Who are these experts ?
What do they eat in winter ?
And , more importantly , do they drink there Port young ?
Posted: 06:00 Sat 08 Sep 2007
by Alex Bridgeman
Dear Administrator
Please split this post and put most of it into meaningless drivel.
Alex
Posted: 13:56 Sat 08 Sep 2007
by Luc
I second the motion . . . We are , of course , using Roberts Rules of Order . . .
