Talk:tawn
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Ultimateria
May need to fix formatting. -- SisyphusOfTheMoors (talk) 17:30, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- @SisyphusOfTheMoors: It should be a proper noun. Is it really written lowercase? And would it come from town and not the last syllable of Hamilton? Ultimateria (talk) 18:26, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Ultimateria: Will change to proper noun. I believe it should be lower case in the same way "town" in "going to town" would be in English. Since Bermuda is so small, it is implied that if someone is going to town, they are going to the capital. Feel free to message me about other Bermudian vernacular words as I add them in. -- SisyphusOfTheMoors (talk) 21:33, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- @SisyphusOfTheMoors: If it's only used as "to tawn" or "in tawn", then it's just a synonym of "town", and in that case the reference to this particular town is just implied and not lexical. Like how "the city" refers to the nearest city to you, whether it's Miami or Zagreb. Is there usage that distinguishes "tawn" from "town"? Ultimateria (talk) 22:04, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Ultimateria: Maybe it would be appropriate to have two definitions, one a colloquial reference to Hamilton and one an alternate spelling to town. Here is an example of the usage describing Hamilton, below is an example of the alternate spelling:
- @SisyphusOfTheMoors: If it's only used as "to tawn" or "in tawn", then it's just a synonym of "town", and in that case the reference to this particular town is just implied and not lexical. Like how "the city" refers to the nearest city to you, whether it's Miami or Zagreb. Is there usage that distinguishes "tawn" from "town"? Ultimateria (talk) 22:04, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Ultimateria: Will change to proper noun. I believe it should be lower case in the same way "town" in "going to town" would be in English. Since Bermuda is so small, it is implied that if someone is going to town, they are going to the capital. Feel free to message me about other Bermudian vernacular words as I add them in. -- SisyphusOfTheMoors (talk) 21:33, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- In this instance only kept reading your article "Chingas" because I know Kristin White is a {sic… tee hee} educated, passionate woman who cares very much for Bermuda and her town of St. Georges. (I would have typed ‘tawn’ of St Georges but as a white Bermudian as of today I’m not sure if I am allowed to use "Tawn" in my speech or vocabulary anymore in public settings)?