# Python sketch in which name is said very wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205 "2019-05-19T21:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/1 "2019-05-19T21:49:07Z")
any help? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/2 "2019-05-19T21:51:29Z")
“It’s spelled Luxury-Yacht, but it’s pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.” > **[Cosmetic Surgery - Monty Python Scripts](http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Series_2/73.htm)** > > Scripts and sounds from Monty Python, Holy Grail, Meaning of Life and Life of Brian ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/3 "2019-05-19T21:52:20Z")
ty ---
**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/4 "2019-05-19T21:54:22Z")
[Raymond Luxury-Yacht?](https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Raymond_Luxury-Yacht) ETA: Ninjaed of course. I hate touch screen keyboards! ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/5 "2019-05-20T01:46:56Z")
Since the question has been answered, a slight hijack: When the Pythons say the word “yacht”, it seems to me that they are pronouncing it similar to the word “latch” with the letter “t” on the end (like latched) instead of “yawt” like we do in the US of A. Am I hearing things? Are there similar words? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/6 "2019-05-20T02:25:22Z")
> [@bunyupp](#): > > Since the question has been answered, a slight hijack: > > When the Pythons say the word “yacht”, it seems to me that they are pronouncing it similar to the word “latch” with the letter “t” on the end (like latched) instead of “yawt” like we do in the US of A. > > Am I hearing things? Are there similar words? It’s part of the joke. You’d think it would be pronounced the way it’s spelt, but it isn’t. [Listen here, starting at about 17:10](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gf7ed) (this was the only place online I could find video of the first sketch in which Mr Luxury-Yacht appears). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/7 "2019-05-20T14:11:48Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > It’s part of the joke. You’d think it would be pronounced the way it’s spelt, but it isn’t. Brits are funny that way. They insist on saying Don KWIKS-oat instead of Don Kee-HO-tay. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/8 "2019-05-20T17:21:29Z")
There’s also [Hilter, Bimmler, and Vibbentrop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX2ZK_a9RJY). ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/9 "2019-05-21T00:18:45Z")
[A Mr Parfitt?](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gf7nt) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/10 "2019-05-21T04:00:20Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Brits are funny that way. They insist on saying Don KWIKS-oat instead of Don Kee-HO-tay. 😉 For added silliness, google \< “quixotic” pronunciation \> . Apparently there are TOP. MEN. who say it is properly pronounced “kwiks-OTT-ick” which I think is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/11 "2019-05-21T05:33:42Z")
That’s “yacht” as in “_nachtmusik_”, but with a “y” instead of an “n”, and no “musik”. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/12 "2019-05-21T05:42:38Z")
-My name’s Michael. -[That’s going to cause a little confusion, mind if we call you Bruce.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw1Ur62x0Q) (The ‘rules’ in this sketch might not have aged so well. I wonder if they changed them when (if?) it’s done live these days. ) NETA: OTOH, at least one member (Graham Chapman) of MP was gay, however I don’t believe the rest of them knew it at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/13 "2019-05-21T15:18:41Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > NETA: OTOH, at least one member (Graham Chapman) of MP was gay, however I don’t believe the rest of them knew it at the time. I’m pretty sure the rest of the Pythons knew about it. Chapman and his lover, David Sherlock, lived together and enjoyed the London gay clubbing scene. Chapman came out on television in the early 70’s, but according to his biography, had come out to at least John Cleese five years prior. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/14 "2019-05-21T15:30:34Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > NETA: OTOH, at least one member (Graham Chapman) of MP was gay, however I don’t believe the rest of them knew it at the time. Some discussion in this old thread: [Graham Chapman and Python’s gay material](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=538386) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/15 "2019-05-21T16:09:27Z")
> [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](#): > > I’m pretty sure the rest of the Pythons knew about it. Chapman and his lover, David Sherlock, lived together and enjoyed the London gay clubbing scene. Chapman came out on television in the early 70’s, but according to his biography, had come out to at least John Cleese five years prior. It’s entirely possible I’m mis-remembering an interview with Cleese where the subject came up…why it came up, I don’t remember, but I can picture Cleese saying 'of course, we didn’t know at the time". Like I said, I’m probably don’t remember it correctly. I’ll have to see if I can dig it up. ---
**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/16 "2019-05-21T17:44:04Z")
I believe Cleese was referring to Chapman’s alcoholism when he said that. No one in the group was aware of how bad it was until the movies were being made. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/17 "2019-05-22T15:11:06Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > It’s entirely possible I’m mis-remembering an interview with Cleese where the subject came up…why it came up, I don’t remember, but I can picture Cleese saying 'of course, we didn’t know at the time". If this is the interview I’m thinking of, it was indeed in reference to Chapman’s homosexuality, and it was not said in any derogatory fashion. Cleese merely admitted to being “surprised,” and not disapproving. Apparently, Chapman’s orientation was not obvious to everyone, if at all. IIRC, he at one time was dating a woman before he “switched teams.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/python-sketch-in-which-name-is-said-very-wrong/834205/18 "2019-05-22T15:24:46Z")
It’s alright - he was a doctor.\* - One of the Pythons - I think it was Palin - tells a story of Chapman going to the bank to deposit his paycheck during a break in filming. The teller was stunned by the fact that Chapman was dressed as Biggles at the time, in full flying ace regalia. Chapman’s response to the teller: “It’s alright - I **am** a doctor.” Which indeed he was.