Let's end the ignorance :)

[iain beag]

Lourde, Sutcha kerfuffle o'er Rudall.

[Aanvil]

Lourde, Sutcha kerfuffle o'er Rudall.

Presenting Lourde Sutcha kerfuffle o'er Rudall and Lady Knickersin O'Bunch!

[Nanohedron]

Just to add to the mishmash, there's the Rudall River National Park in Australia, and one source in an online discussion on the park said - and with some authority, I thought it seemed - that it's pronounced like "rue-DOLL". Yes, with emfossis on the last sylobble. In Oz, anyway. Nobody said anything about flutes.

[Denny]

Lourde, Sutcha kerfuffle o'er Rudall.

Presenting Lourde Sutcha kerfuffle o'er Rudall and Lady Knickersin O'Bunch!

good thing we're at opposite ends of the left coast

[Denny]

Just to add to the mishmash, there's the Rudall River National Park in Australia, and one source in an online discussion on the park said - and with some authority, I thought it seemed - that it's pronounced like "rue-DOLL". Yes, with emfossis on the last sylobble. In Oz, anyway. Nobody said anything about flutes.

it's the kangaroo thing....throws 'em off, it does!

[johnkerr]

I don't Kerr

I resent your use of my traditional family name for your nefarious comedic purposes.

[talasiga]

.....Why would not our venerable flute-maker be Mr. RUDD-ALL, like mudball?


......

1. This goes more towards jemtheflute's point on patterns than against it.
2. Your illustration, like many others illsustration, is premised on a universal pronunciation of the u in mud whereas in the native English speaking world the vowel varies. For instance, in many parts of the UK, mud is pronounced with a short oo.

[benhall.1]

I don't Kerr

I resent your use of my traditional family name for your nefarious comedic purposes.

Ooh! "Nefarious", eh? There's posh!



Gotta go ... just nipping off to the john ...

[Denny]

don't let it got to yer head

[jemtheflute]

I don't Kerr

I resent your use of my traditional family name for your nefarious comedic purposes.

Would that be pronounced "car", as in the late (I think) Deborah of that ilk? (Whistle a happy tune!)

[benhall.1]

"of that ilk" ?

Did she come from a place called "Kerr" then?

[benhall.1]

... or perhaps a place called "Deborah"?

[jemtheflute]

Martin said to his man......
"Who's the p****t now?"

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ilk

[benhall.1]

Moi? Don't think so!

You neglected to link to the meaning of the phrase, rather than just of the word. And you also neglected to look at the particular useage in Scotland:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/of_that_ilk

p****t indeed! Ha!

[jemtheflute]

Moi? Don't think so!

You neglected to link to the meaning of the phrase, rather than just of the word. And you also neglected to look at the particular useage in Scotland:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/of_that_ilk

p****t indeed! Ha!

Didn't need to - knew that! I just used it in its looser, extended, modern common usage sense.
Not only p****t but n***************r!

Back on topic..... George Rudall came from Crediton in Devon. Just try saying his name in either pronunciation in a broad Mummerset accent and see which sounds the more likely.

"George Rudall, my lover....." (Proper job!)