Aimed at the Wrong People?

As ever Eleo you say it all.

It's not Eleo it's Eloe! hmmf

Ooohhhh don't let ab see you correcting spelling mistakes.

It's not exactly a spelling mistake, is it? More of a mis-reading mistake. You're not the only one, you'll be glad to know, Rigby.

I bet it's the first misreading mistake you've corrected, though, Ana.

What I want to know is is Eloethan pronounced as threee syllables, 'El' oe' 'than' or four ,El' 'o' 'e' 'than'?

I'm a bit bemused at the way this discussion is going. To me the salient factor is 'were the EU workers hired on the basis of previous years' amounts of rubbish left, the amount of time needed to clear it and the number of people needed to clear it or were they indeed recruited under false pretences, as the story seems to be implying?

It would seem extraordinarily callous to promise two weeks work, let people pay their air fares and plan on the strength of what they expected to earn, and then turn them off after a couple of days and disclaim all responsibility for them.

But this is just one news story; are there any other versions of the same story doing the rounds. would be interesting to see if it were presented differently by other sources.

All this pearl clutching over the amount of rubbish 'privileged' people leave behind after Glastonbury seems a bit irrelevant to me.

And I don't approve at all of the growing widespread use of zero hours contracts.

In my head, I always pronounce it with four syllables. It doesn't sound right otherwise. I do hope I am right.

Three.

And is the 'th' pronounced as in 'the' or as in 'thing'?

We have to know...

How do you pronounce the name Ethan?

Ethan? 'th' as in 'think.

I have to say I've always thought Eloethan was meant to represent 'Ello, Ethan'

EEEthan

I think that was how they pronounced it in "Thirty Something"

Exactly, Maizie, that's how I say it.