Talk:Harwich

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Harwich article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Cities

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cities, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of cities, towns and various other settlements on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CitiesWikipedia:WikiProject CitiesTemplate:WikiProject CitiesWikiProject Cities articles

England Mid‑importance

	England portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject England, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of England on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EnglandWikipedia:WikiProject EnglandTemplate:WikiProject EnglandEngland-related articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

UK geography Mid‑importance

	United Kingdom portal This article falls within the scope of WikiProject UK geography, a user-group dedicated to building a comprehensive and quality guide to places in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you wish to participate, share ideas or merely get tips you can join us at the project page where there are resources, to do lists and guidelines on how to write about settlements.UK geographyWikipedia:WikiProject UK geographyTemplate:WikiProject UK geographyUK geography articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

East Anglia C‑class Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject East Anglia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of East Anglia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.East AngliaWikipedia:WikiProject East AngliaTemplate:WikiProject East AngliaEast Anglia articles
C	This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Pronunciation[edit]

The article claimed this is pronounced haw-RICH. I assume that's wrong, and will change it, but am leaving a note here just in case. kwami 08:48, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct in changing it. I was raised in Harwich; it's pronounced "ha-rich". The Ha sound is the same as in Harrow. Sometimes the "rich" is more of a "ridge". 90.220.88.167 (talk) 16:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, having been brought up there too and recently visited, so have changed the IPA representation accordingly. The Merriam-Webster pronunciation is written correctly, but in audio - "hair-ridge" - it is an American making a guess. However, "ha-rich" (with "ha" as in "harrow") is the sound everywhere in England: for the "received pronunciation", I think "mooncow" in Forvo gets it right - Harwich. But, in (harbourside) Harwich itself, the "h" may be dropped and the whole fall between "(h)arr-itch" and "(h)arr-idge". By local legend, a letter addressed to someone in "Arijaba" was correctly delivered to "Harwich Harbour". --Wikiain (talk) 01:43, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see this issue has cropped up again in a recent edit and revert. I agree with the above - that it's somewhere between "(h)arr-itch" and "(h)arr-idge". I imagine the Merriam-Webster pronunciation may refer to Harwich, Massachusetts. Barnabypage (talk) 17:21, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good sleuthing, Barnabypage. Wikiain (talk) 17:36, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Frinton[edit]

Grafitti artists have been known to add to the slogan "Harwich for the Continent", the words "Frinton for the incontinent". Nearby Frinton-on-Sea is remarkable for having remained essentially a retirement town. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 22:57, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The old jokes are the best ones, eh! Subjectively I'm not so sure that Frinton is that much "older" in population terms than Harwich these days, though. Barnabypage (talk) 00:31, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case ...[edit]

... one of the Harwich watchers is interested: Recently I came, by concidence, accross a John Nunn from Harwich and made this out of it in the German Wikipedia. Quite interesting guy, in my opinion. Maybe someone wants to import it into the English language Wikipedia. I don't want to do it myself because I am not a native speaker. The Google translator renders a translation so that at least the content can be understood and used as a basis for an article in good language. Regards --Pfeiffer3f (talk) 14:52, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article Kerguelen has this, including a citation of Nunn's book:

In 1825, the British sealer John Nunn and three crew members from Favourite, were shipwrecked on Kerguelen until they were rescued in 1827 by Captain Alexander Distant during his hunting campaign.^[1]^[2]

You can find and read Nunn's book through a library that subscribes to the Hathi Trust Digital Library. Wikiain (talk) 00:55, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Kerguelen – morell – john nunn – ross – ofley – challenger – fuller – eure – bossière". Kerguelen-voyages.com.
^ Nunn, John (1850). Narrative of the Wreck of the "Favourite" on the Island of Desolation: detailing the adventures, sufferings and privations of J. Nunn, an historical account of the Island, and its whale and seal fisheries. London: William Edward Painter. p. 236. Retrieved 29 November 2014.

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Harwich. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Y An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 01:18, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Harwich High Lighthouse Range rear"[edit]

In the header to the image of the High Lighthouse, what if any is the function of "Rear"? If it has no function, or only a function that would be understood by specialists, it should be removed. Wikiain (talk) 00:06, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Kerguelen – morell – john nunn – ross – ofley – challenger – fuller – eure – bossière". Kerguelen-voyages.com.

[2] Nunn, John (1850). Narrative of the Wreck of the "Favourite" on the Island of Desolation: detailing the adventures, sufferings and privations of J. Nunn, an historical account of the Island, and its whale and seal fisheries. London: William Edward Painter. p. 236. Retrieved 29 November 2014.

[1]

[2]