Just a very brief introduction - this blog is a collection of things that keep me awake at night or as I have called it Twilight Thinking due to not being able to write that long title in a web address. Some posts you may have seen before in my other blogs and I hope most will be new. Other posts may be short stories and if I have added something from another source I will do my damndest to add the source of the information in the best method of Harvard Referencing (Harvard Referencing Generator 2013)...now on with the show.
On the A21 road to Hastings from the M25 whilst listening to Front Row on Radio 4, there was an article on Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, I got to thinking, "How do you pronounce the name Igor?" I am guessing, there are two versions:
Ee-gor or Eye-gor
But on adding the question to a suitable search engine that rhymes with "oogle", I got a search engine that helps one to pronounce the very name in question. It turns out that "Ee-gor" is the Russian form of the name whereas the "Eye-gor" or as the aforementioned website pronounces it "IH-gohr" is the Bulgarian version.
According to a Wikipedia article on Igor (as a fictional character), the name was first used in a 1939 film entitled, "Son of Frankenstein" with Bela Lugosi playing the character with his name spelt with a "Y". The role was reprised in 1942's The Ghost of Frankenstein. However, the first Frankenstein film (shot in 1931) had a hunchbacked assistant named Fritz. The hunchbacked assistant caricature has been used in assorted cultural content including comic books, horror films, pop songs to name but a few.
Twilight Thinking so you don't have to...
BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Akram Khan; the Iraq War documentaries; Antonia Fraser's Cultural Exchange . 2013. BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Akram Khan; the Iraq War documentaries; Antonia Fraser's Cultural Exchange . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sn9cc. [Accessed 29 May 2013].
Harvard Referencing Generator | We love referencing!. 2013. Harvard Referencing Generator | We love referencing!. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.harvardgenerator.com/. [Accessed 29 May 2013].
Igor (fictional character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Igor (fictional character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_%28fictional_character%29. [Accessed 30 May 2013].
Pronounce Names - Pronounce Igor, How to pronounce Igor, How to
pronounce the name Igor, Pronunciation of Igor, how to say Igor, how to
say the name Igor. 2013. Pronounce Names - Pronounce Igor, How to
pronounce Igor, How to pronounce the name Igor, Pronunciation of Igor,
how to say Igor, how to say the name Igor. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/igor. [Accessed 29 May 2013].
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