What Would Darwin Do?

[John Grehan]

Its possible Darwin pronounced Galapagos as would a
New Zealander or Australian today. Some linguists have proposed
the New Zealand accent is close to what many English spoke in the
early-mid 1800's.

John Grehan


At 07:18 PM 2/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
>This may well win the prize for the most irrelevant query of the year, but
I can't keep from wondering how the eminent Charles himself would have
pronounced the name of that famous archipelago, the Galápagos.  I
think most English merchant seamen of the day would have said
Galley-PAY-goes.  Although he was of a very different social class, isn't
it possible that Darwin, too, spoke some Anglicized version of the Spanish
toponym?
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