Devlin who?

[Last of the V8's]

Can somebody tell me how you pronounce Devlin Waugh?

[Wake]

I pronouce it Devlin Wore - but what do I know?

Wake

[Bolt-01]

WAR! HUH! WHAT IS IS GOOD FOR?

[GordonR]

Waauuu, rhyming with 'raw'.  (Note to speakers of Estuary English - definitely no 'R' at the end of it.)

It's a fairly obvious riff on the name of Evelyn Waugh, the 1930s writer whose most famous book is Brideshead Revisited.

And, hey, if you think Evelyn's an overly fruity name for a guy, then spare a thought for his almost equally famous son.  His name's Auberon...

[Trout]

Hey Gordon, did you ever eat haugh as a kid?

Different pronunciation!

(Translation for non-Scots: it's a beef jelly, profoundly gross, made from all the bits of the cow you can't eat any other way.
It's pronounced to rhyme with the Scots word "loch.")

- Trout

[Jared Katooie]

I thought it was "wow" that sounds better.

Like "ser-eef" instead of "ser-if".

I know best.

Supreme commander Katooie.

[Last of the V8's]

Or dose it ryme with laugh?
Only the creator knows for sure, are you out there?

[Oddboy]

John Smith is VERY out there!

[rius]

It's Waugh as in War, as in Evelyn Waugh, and definitely NOT Warf (as in laugh)!

[Quirkafleeg]

Yeah, but is it the 'Cursed Earth', one syllable, as I always thought or the 'Cur-sed Earth', two syllables, as the film reckons?

[Oddboy]

Curs?d Earth I reckon.  & I think I've heard somewhere that either Pat Mills or Alan Grant reckon that too - so that's good enough for me.

[Jayzus B. Christ]

I called it the Curs'd Earth till I was about 18, but then went to a see a heavy metal band that called themselves 'Cur-sed Earth' and have pronounced it that way since. It definitely sounds more hard-arsed.
The Dredd film pronounced it both ways. What absolute twaddle.

[moly]

im sure i read somewhere that devlin is coming
back soon, anyone know when ?

[Slippery PD]

YEP next issue of the megazine.......

[Tu-plang]

Next month?

Megazine 201
Devlin Waugh: Red Tide
by John Smith and Colin MacNiel.