"Eeps" or "EE-pray"?

[Hauksbee 103]

I have heard 'Ypres' pronounced both ways. Which is correct? ( or should I just stick with the Doughboys and call it 'Wipers'?

[+CrazyhorseB34 937]

Eeeps.

[Gatling20 753]

Pretty sure it is "Eepr", with a silent "s".

But "Wipers" it is, from the First Battle in 1914, to the Tommies.

[Hauksbee 103]

Thanks, and my apologies to the Tommies.

[33LIMA 972]

C'est 'EEE-pruh', n'est-ce pas?

[seany65 11]

Of course, you're all ignoring the real, official, pronunciation of "Wipers".

[Hauksbee 103]

Found this on Netflix Instant: "The Wipers Times". Seems the boys of the BEF found a printing press in the rubble of a building and put it to good use needling the General Staff. Michel Palin plays General Mitford who has their backs and protects them from a vicious Colonel of the Black Adder/ Captain Darling stripe who wants them all court-martialed for insubordination and Anarchy. (That's him on the right)

[Olham 164]

If you click on the little speaker symbol with the American flag in front of the name, you get it spelled about right.

(As right as an American can spell a French name).

 

http://www.dict.cc/?s=Ypres

 

The Belgians also call it "Jepers", which you'd find hard to spell, as you spell "j" as "jay".

The "j" in "Jepers" is softer - more like "Ee-apers".

Edited December 13, 2014 by Olham

[Wayfarer 5]

Found this on Netflix Instant: "The Wipers Times". Seems the boys of the BEF found a printing press in the rubble of a building and put it to good use needling the General Staff. Michel Palin plays General Mitford who has their backs and protects them from a vicious Colonel of the Black Adder/ Captain Darling stripe who wants them all court-martialed for insubordination and Anarchy. (That's him on the right)

 

They published the complete series of "The Wipers Times" last year, to coincide with the programme I think. You can still get it on Amazon.

Some of the humour is period, of course, and it's possible that a lot of it might be too 'British' to travel well (if that is possible)  but I've found it entertaining, and some bits are really funny.

Very black humour at times, of course, but that was one of their ways of dealing with everything.

[Hauksbee 103]

Very black humour at times, of course, but that was one of their ways of dealing with everything.

I imagine that war, especially one like WWI, would bring out the black humor in anyone.

[Maeran 20]

They published the complete series of "The Wipers Times" last year, to coincide with the programme I think. You can still get it on Amazon.

Some of the humour is period, of course, and it's possible that a lot of it might be too 'British' to travel well (if that is possible)  but I've found it entertaining, and some bits are really funny.

Very black humour at times, of course, but that was one of their ways of dealing with everything.

 

I have a copy, spotted in a book shop last year.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wipers-Times-Complete-Wartime-Newspaper/dp/1906251177/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1418858602&sr=8-3&keywords=Wipers+times