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A quick lesson on how to pronounce Beaulieu correctly .

 To those of you who have never visited the great autojumble of "Beaulieu". Please read the following with great attention or you will be in big trouble or with the best scenario, you will have a sunny instead of a fine rainy weekend. When you use an electronic navigation device in your car don't look for Beaulieu! You should look for Beaulieu! The two villages - both lovely situated on the seaside - are not exactly close to each other(click), so beware!  

Yet when you wisely don't want to rely on modern electrickery but prefer to ask directions from people in the street be advised that when you pronounce Beaulieu in the correct (French) way you probably either end up somewhere along the river Dordogne.  Or you will need to try selling your old car parts to the refined public of the French Riviera.  
So in order to land on the greatest autojumble of Europe ... er - of the British Isles - you need to forget everything you know about proper pronuciation and descend to an Anglo-Saxon guttural - basically a mix of Old English & German - which sounds a bit like Bjooh-LEE.  If you practice 5 minutes a day over the next week there's a fair chance you'll have an unforgettable weekend in Bjoohlee.

Ifd you find the time, be sure to visit our stand in Red 706/707 for a Meet & Greet with PreWarCar celebrities and a petit rouge. Timing : Saturday 3 September 16.00 hours. Stand R 706/707 (click) 

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woensdag augustus 24th, 2016
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25 Augustus 2016, 18:48
Wouldn't miss Beaulieu for all the world...
Once "failed to proceed" in a Silver Ghost in Beaulieu Sur Mer.
And I enjoy an occasional bottle of wine from the Scottish Beauly Wine Company...
http://beauly.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/beauly-wine-co-16734475.html

Dear Ian, be sure to pass by at PreWarCar's stand (Red 705/706) Saturday afternoon (prewar-Happy Hour!)for a petit rouge and give us a short lecture on how to pronounce Beauly properly with a Glasgow tongue
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25 Augustus 2016, 16:56
My friends call me Chuck. Thanks for the leg up on pronunciation! Even though I was an English Magor in college, born in Canada, I ruined the whole image when I migrated to Texas Y'all. Love the news letter and it's editor---first thing I look for....Chuck Peele
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25 Augustus 2016, 14:38
I always thought it was pronounced Byoo-lee. However, last year I bought a 1949 Citroen 11BL from a man named Roger Beaulieu in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada which is a French town near Windsor. He pronounced in Boy-lou. I will be attending Byoo-Lee on Saturday, wouldn't miss the best auto jumble in the world for anything!

editor: well what you heard in Canada was a vague imitation of the correct french pronunciation
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25 Augustus 2016, 14:37
Is Bjooh-LEE like Angelina "Jolie"?


editor: no more like Angelina "Jooley"
Why so many anglo people have problems pronouncing their own "y" and their own "oo" from pooh ?
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25 Augustus 2016, 11:28
Same as UK!!!
As in the name Bewley, the famous Irish coffee and tea people whose 3 litre Bentley survives in Ireland, always motoring connections!!!
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David Barker
25 Augustus 2016, 10:26
Bewlee.
Bew as in Dew or Few or Mew!

editor: point taken, so the correct Anglo-Saxon spelling may be: Bewley... or?
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25 Augustus 2016, 10:16
Check out beaulieuhouse.ie, a 17th century house in Co Louth, Ireland which also has motoring connections.

Editor: how to pronounce that in correct modern Irish tongue?
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25 Augustus 2016, 09:48
Members of the Cercle Pégase Amilcar stands have always referred to it as Biouli.
Best wishes
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25 Augustus 2016, 08:00
BOW LE EUR down in the charente where i lived
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25 Augustus 2016, 05:37
Hello,

Here we can not confuse Beaulieu in England with Beaulieu sur Mer, Since it is Beaulieu on See.
But may be confused with Beaulieu in France with postal Code 38470.

Kind reagards
Fredy
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