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In a Monastery Garden

posted 10 years ago by ctyankee1
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Interesting and funny. I like this series because Rosemary (who says her name Rosemarie) and Laura are like two Miss Marples. They look into things that don't seem right and when then find something or someone who might be a killer they end up being scared and their life threatened. They react very funny when they are in danger but they usually solve the crime or help solve it. The gardens are also beautiful so it is nice to see with the beautiful landscapes and historical building (if they are historical)in the scenes.

[–] Danzence 9 years ago

Interesting and funny. I like this series because Rosemary (who says her name Rosemarie) and Laura are like two Miss Marples. They look into things that don't seem right and when then find something or someone who might be a killer they end up being scared and their life threatened. They react very funny when they are in danger but they usually solve the crime or help solve it. The gardens are also beautiful so it is nice to see with the beautiful landscapes and historical building (if they are historical)in the scenes.

Rosemary is pronounced the same as Rosemarie yes.

[–] Troll_Dahl 9 years ago

Not sure where you're posting from, but in the US (where I'm from and we get English mystery shows on our public TV stations), the name "Marie" is usually pronounced closer to the French, with emphasis placed on the second syllable--hence, "Mar-EE". It's the same with other French-derived names I've noticed in TV shows from the UK. For instance, in England the name Maurice seems to be pronounced the same way as "Morris", where in the US we'd again have the emphasis on the second syllable and a long E sound on the end, closer to the French. And the BBC is famous for having "garage" pronounced to rhyme with "carriage", where in American English, we'd use an "ah" sound on the second "a" and soft "g". Now that I'm typing this out, thought, it occurs to me that "carriage" probably has a French origin and Americans are perfectly happy to anglicize that one, so I guess it all depends where you draw the anal-retentiveness line. But it's funny how English and Americans are divided by a common language, as they say!

Om Shanti

[–] Naomi222 9 years ago

Virtually all the important cathedrals in England predate the reformation and the establishment of the Church of England. They were originally Catholic, and then became C&E. (And remember that when Henry left the Catholic Church, he still considered himself to be Catholic -- the only change was that HE was head of the Catholic Church IN England, rather than the pope.

Nobody paid for the changeover. (But it could have been worse -- most monasteries and abbeys were demolished, and their assets taken by the crown. The churches and cathedrals just acquired a different landlord.)

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