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#41 Postby Windsurfer_NYC » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:59 am

Beryl (rhymes with Cheryl) is how NHC has been promoting the pronunciation all along (BER-IL)... who has been pronouncing it BURL?
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#42 Postby Hohwxny » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:01 am

Windsurfer_NYC wrote:Beryl (rhymes with Cheryl) is how NHC has been promoting the pronunciation all along (BER-IL)... who has been pronouncing it BURL?


First paragraph of the NHC 11 a.m. discussion from yesterday:

THE LAST RECON PASS THROUGH THE CENTER OF BERYL THIS MORNING
INDICATED THE PRESSURE HAD DROPPED ANOTHER MILLIBAR DOWN TO 1004 MB. FLIGHT-LEVEL WINDS AT 850 MB WERE 52 KT IN THE EASTERN QUADRANT IN CONVECTION...AND THAT IS THE JUSTIFICATION FOR INCREASING THE INTENSITY TO 40 KT. ALSO...THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION OF TROPICAL STORM BERYL IS BERLE... LIKE THE LAST NAME OF MILTON BERLE.

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#43 Postby AnnularCane » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:17 am

cheezywxman wrote:Is Bethany the full name of beth or is a combination of Beth and Stephanie? :lol:



Hey, it's a perfectly common name. :) Or how about Brenna?

Beryl isn't really such a bad name, actually. Just don't pronounce it BURL.
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#44 Postby canegrl04 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:42 am

I pronounce it BEAR -L . That way,you can have fun with it.Like Beryl has us over a barrel :lol:
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#45 Postby Logandear » Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:00 am

My landlady's name when I lived in England was Beryl, and it was pronounced "Barrel." Consequently, I refuse to pronounce it any other way. In fact I've been looking forward to this storm because of her.
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#46 Postby Josephine96 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:33 pm

Stephanie Abrams :lol: sorry.. that's the 1st Stephanie I could think of..
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#47 Postby White Cap » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:30 pm

They should have named it Barbie. Everyone knows how to pronounce that one! :wink:
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#48 Postby GeneratorPower » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:44 pm

I'm glad this whole thread is about a name that will be forgotten soon. Imagine if Katrina had been hard to pronounce. That would have been a media nightmare.
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#49 Postby AnnularCane » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:47 pm

White Cap wrote:They should have named it Barbie. Everyone knows how to pronounce that one! :wink:



Everybody would be asking where Ken is. :P
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#50 Postby stormwriter » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:39 am

Story from today's Charlotte Observer on the whole pronunciation thing:

Don't mess with Beryl.

No, not Tropical Storm Beryl, which stayed offshore this week and threatened nothing but fish as it bypassed the N.C. coast.

We're talking about Beryl Kaminsky of Charlotte. And Beryl McKenna of Huntersville. And probably a lot of other Beryls out there.

They're not happy with the pronunciation guide issued by the National Hurricane Center this week in one of its storm updates, which said Beryl should be pronounced like the last name of comedian Milton Berle.

No, the Beryls of the world aren't happy at all.

Here's the rest of the story: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/breaking_news/15087953.htm
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