Talk:George Everest
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I never really understood formal phonetic representations but hopefully a better person than me, will be able to improve on the note I've added about pronounciation.
If this page is updated in respect of pronounciation check that the Everest page still makes sense in respect of pronounciation.
-- Peter Blackburn http://www.boost.net/peter
- Pronunciation note adjusted (being British, Everest would have pronounced the last syllable of his name to rhyme with "wrist", not "rest") - Picapica 20:08, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- If I remember correctly, the surname 'Everest' is derived from something like 'Eaforest' and is an Anglo-Saxon name originally from Kent. Ian Dunster (talk) 10:04, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Errors in the articles
This comment appeared in Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities. Can someone who know the subject verify this and update the article :
There are two factual errors and a little missing information in the article on George Everest (for whom Mt Everest was named). Here's your entry [my comments/corrections are in brackets]:
'Colonel Sir George Everest... He was largely responsible for completion of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to Nepal... The survey was started by William Lambton in 1806 and lasted several decades. Mount Everest was surveyed in 1852 under his successor Andrew Waugh [it sounds like Waugh is Lambton's successor: wrong - he was Everest's successor who, in turn, was a successor [which one?] of Lambton in the position of Surveyor-General of India], who named it Mount Everest in 1865 [the correct date is '1856'] in honour of Sir George. [George Everest was not knighted until after the mountain was named for him... so it should read 'in honour of George (later Sir George) Everest'..
Hope this makes sense. If any questions, contact me:
Don Messerschmidt, PhD Anthropologist & Writer Kathmandu, Nepal [email removed to prevent you being spammed]
