A type of common, low quality grazing animal. Found mainly around the South of England, particularly Brighton. A smorg can be found migrating to a PC or such browser technology.
I was in Brighton last week, just so happened to see a Smorg in the town center. Nice wheels.
Personally I’d always pronouced it more like Smog, but with a sort of extended “o” if that makes any sense.
Quite how anyone could come up with the pronunciation Smorg when there isn’t an r in the word is beyond me. Then again some people will insist on prouncing the word south as sarf, so I really shouldn’t be that surprised.
Well that’s really tricky to type but the au part I would pronounce the same as “awe” but with a very soft w. Of course none of that is all that relevant as the english languge isn’t one where the same sequence of letters is always pronounced the same way 😉
I certainly wouldn’t be adding an r to it!
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There’s no O in it either not even an extended one.
That was a bad decription on my part in fairness it’s probably more like the augment examply used above.
This pronunciation thing is a minefield. I always thought Rohan (as in Riders of Rohan) should be pronounced as Rowan, but in the movies it’s Row-hahhhhnnn. Go figure.
I always pronounced it sm-oh-wg, but apparently Tolkien left extensive notes on language and pronunciation and sm-ow-g (as per the movies) is correct.
This is LOTR in a nutshell, take whatever liberties you like with the characters and the plot but definitely do obsess over pronounciations and detail, that’ll make all the difference when Legolas is surfing on a shield shooting orcs with his gatling bow.
As someone who has had dealing with the Tolkien estate, I can confirm it is ‘smowg’. At least, that’s how his son and editors pronounce it. I was nearly spat at when I said ‘smorg’.
This shit matters, apparently.