Re: Yar Re: medieval english was knight ranks and titles

in article <43506821.5461@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
peter t. daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|Maybe it's a folk etymology. Some script adapter, unsurprisingly,
|didn't know the word "yar" (it rhymes with "jar," not with "bare," so
|I'll spell it as I've always imagined it), and used the boat-related
|word "yawl."

do you think that hepburn actually said "yawl" on the radio broadcast?
i don't suppose that anyone would like to track down a copy of the
broadcast online and listen to it and report whether hepburn says
"yar" or "yawl"?


|> |How many of the original cast participated in the broadcast?
|
|> the big three, at least. by the way is jimmy stewart's character
|> really a country bumpkin, as opposed to a city bumpkin? he does
|> say that his father taught high school in south bend, but he's a
|> new york-based reporter for scandal *** "spy magazine". are you
|> saying that if jimmy stewart is in a movie with cary grant then
|> jimmy stewart's character is necessarily a country bumpkin, even if
|> also a new yorker?
|
|Pretty much so, no? How often did they appear together?

it looks like that was pretty much it.


|How believable is he in other sorts of roles, as in, say, *Rear
|Window* or *Rope*? (I forget who Hitch originally wanted for that
|part, but it was someone totally different.)

if i remember correctly then he was believable as a vicious murderer
in "rose marie", but perhaps the tendency to come off as surly
compared to nelson eddy is as natural as the tendency to come across
as a country bumpkin compared to cary grant.





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