Interesting.

I wonder what made someone think a whale's head would/could resemble a 'bow & arrow' bow?

A mystery for the ages.

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On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 01:13:14 PM MST, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

While I've got my dictionary out, it says bow as in weapon rather than ship for the whale.  So it seems you were hearing it correctly.

In Moby Dick it's the 'right whale' which simplifies things!

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 19:10 Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list), <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Reminds me of the 'Bowhead Whale'.

Every time I can recall hearing it, it is pronounced as if it was like a long'bow' but I'm pretty positive that the name refers the 'bow' of a ship!

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On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 08:00:36 AM MST, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 15:05, James Catchpole - jlcatchpole at googlemail.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

All I can say to you is "bow, bow, bow, bough, through, enough"! ;^D

You've sort of beaten me to pointing out one of my favourites with international friends learning English:

thorough

through

though

tough

ough

all with the vowel spelled the same, all (with the vowel sound) pronounced differently.  And that's before you start *adding* letters back in.... like Lough.

tc

(To be fair, I find the difference between the 'ou' sound in thorough and the one in tough quite hard to distinguish but I think it's about tongue placement or something.)

(Can anyone tell I've got a video recording to make that I'm not wanting to do...?)

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