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The Ever Loving Hell
- irrational 5y agoI’m going to guess that Ever Unicorn is not a real ship name.
- kstrauser 5y agoBzzt. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:729388/mmsi:564995000/imo:9196967/vessel:EVER_UNICORN https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:72...
- bombcar 5y agoEver Chaste was my guess, alas I erred. I wonder if Ever Cleaver is a rhyme or a cutter.
- dylan604 5y agowhat would it be rhyming with?
- melissalobos 5y agoEver. In some versions of English(of which there are many many dialects) it is pronounced nearly the same as "clever" so "Ever Clever".
- dylan604 5y agoIn some versions of English it is mispronounced would be more apropos
- melissalobos 5y ago> In some versions of English it is mispronounced This is more a misunderstanding of how dialects work. There is no "English" if you consider British, Welsh, Scottish, and Australian English all English which most people do. There are even more extreme forms of English which all can be mutually intelligible with English, but sound very different. There is no one way to pronounce anything, except in a particular dialect.
- irrational 5y agoYou mean like how Americans mispronounce herbs, maths, aluminium, water, etc.?
- FPGAhacker 5y agoThis is true, but Cleaver does not rhyme with Clever.
- melissalobos 5y agoIn Standard American English true. There are many many dialects and local versions. Listen to the Great British Bakeoff for one full episode and note if you ever disagree with any pronunciations. Now go to Indonesia, where I spent a great deal of time and tell me that Cleaver is never pronounced Clever.
- dylan604 5y agoThere are always integration problems when you deviate from the standard.
- nine_k 5y agoUnlike French or Spanish, English has no standard.
- irrational 5y agoThe Standard? You mean the Queen’s dialect?
- EdwardDiego 5y agoWell, Indonesian English wasn't an argument I was expecting. :D I'm a Kiwi, we're renowned for butchering English. Or as we call it, Unglush. For some fun examples, here's a video made by Australians parodying our accent[0]. And here's another one[1], although what's funny as a Kiwi is to me it just sounds like Australians saying "deck", but to them it sounds like Kiwis saying "dick". But then once when I asked my friend's Australian partner to pass me a pen once, she was confused until I pronounced it (to me) as "peeen", which felt like I was taking the piss out of her accent, but she understood me then, she had thought I was asking for a pin... Oh, and here's one from the Flight of the Conchords playing on our accent and American comprehension thereof.[2] I've never heard cleaver pronounced "clever" (so far in my life), but then, lever is often pronounced here in a way that rhymes with "cleaver" (i.e., "leaver" vs. "lever") so I can entirely understand that the pronunciation of cleaver could change to clever in other countries' English. Ah, English, the mongrel cur of languages. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdg1MOYxHo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdg1MOYxHo
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoIf Cleaver is Clever in some dialects can Ever Clear ever be Ever Claire?
- EdwardDiego 5y agoThe Holm shipping company in New Zealand had the same style naming convention. The Holmwood was sunk by German commerce raiders in the Pacific, my Mum did the the payroll for the Holmdale which ran the Lyttelton to Chatham Islands route for years before being sold, and sinking as the Celtic Kiwi. Then there was the Holmglen, the Holmlea, and a bunch of others I can't recall. Likewise there was a shipping company that named all their RoRos the Spirit of X, where X was a liberal economics principle, so there was a Spirit of Free Enterprise, a Spirit of Competition, etc. Not sure if there was ever a Spirit of the Invisible Hand.
- nine_k 5y agoI wonder if Herald of Free Enterprise was theirs, too. It was a RoRo.
- schoen 5y agoIt sounds like they were actually all "_____ of Free Enterprise", and there were three of them (Spirit, Herald, Pride). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise#Design_and_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise#D...
- EdwardDiego 5y agoI think that's a different Spirit. The NZ one was originally the Sealord Contender, which kinda sounds like she was built to fight the Greyjoys for control of the Iron Isles, but also, launched in 1968, earlier than the Herald et al. https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/sealord-contender.286141/ https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/sealord-contender.28614...
- schoen 5y agoThanks, I got mixed up between the UK and New Zealand here, and also apparently between two different shipping lines.
- EdwardDiego 5y ago
- thematrixturtle 5y agoEver Ample sounds like a great name for a push-up bra.
- knome 5y ago>“Alot” is not a word http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better... I doubt it was named by a fan, however.
- 2143 5y agoMaybe they were going for "Ever Afloat" but had a typo.
- grumblepeet 5y agoSeeing their predilection for disasters they should name one the ‘Ever Albatross’ and cut out the middleman.
- 2143 5y agoI think it's common for fleets to have similar named. Here's some of the ship names of Royal Carribbean, which follow '____ of the Seas' convention: Quantum of the Seas Anthem of the Seas Ovation of the Seas Spectrum of the Seas Harmony of the Seas Symphony of the Seas Wonder of the Seas* Freedom of the Seas Liberty of the Seas Independence of the Seas Radiance of the Seas Brilliance of the Seas Serenade of the Seas Jewel of the Seas Voyager of the Seas Explorer of the Seas Adventure of the Seas Navigator of the Seas Mariner of the Seas They have plenty more ships. *The largest cruise ship as of Jan 2022.
- vaguetruth 5y ago