Sirs;
With regard to Monocle's (a noble title, though I say so Myself) missive of the 21st of September*, I have this to contribute.

In my Humble, Personal, and really quite shockingly Reactionary opinion, pronouncing 3 as "three" (or more accurately for me, "free", tho' I Deplore this abominably Working Class trait in myself every day that God sends me) is an Archaic Concept known as 'correct'; whereas using it in place of the noble and hardworking vowel E in both writing and speech is Wrong, incredibly Wrong, Wrong to the 33rd degree, Scion of an ancient pedigree of Wrong.

It naturally follows that the rest of the title is be pronounced as individual letters, as attempting to pronounce "b'threeta" on a regular basis would lead to the sort of tongue injuries found in amateur cunnilinguists, and additionally make one sound like a Foreigner of the Worst Sort, if not a 'Trekkie' or other subterranean misfit.

The name of this Venerable Website is Bee Three Tea Ay, sirs, and I will not have it Posited Otherwise on pain of a sounder thrashing than that which your Pathetic and doubtless Liberal fathers clearly neglected to administer when it was most needed.

Yours Fulminatively and heavily Mustachioed, partially inebriated and largely Dyspeptic, Falstaff's Spiritual Successor (retardedired).

*Edited at the request of a certain Knave.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:53, 5 replies)

what the hell is the eerd degree?

( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:14, closed)

Sir:
if I needs must repeat myself on the subject of the Difference between the numeral 3 and the letter E, I will redouble my efforts to Thrash you Soundly, then return and it again until you have finally gotten the message, Sir!
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:43, closed)

Hear hear! (that's what I call it, too)
(Mr_Lew, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 1:15, closed)

Can I ask why random words during your post have capital letters and not others as this confuses me.
(TaZ44, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 6:53, closed)

Sir:
You may very well be Puzzled at this usage of Language; while some might say such Puzzlement reveals you as the worst sort of uneducated Pithecanthropoid, I am prepared to be more charitable, and will direct you to the relevant section on this pathetic excuse for an Encyclopaedia or Bastion of Knowledge, which I have very little Time for due to its Bolshevik and Commonal, as well as transient and insubstantive nature, but which I expect will be the perfect vehicle for communicating a paltry Understanding of the grand old habit of Intermittent Capitalisation to one such as yourself, bring back flogging, this country is going to the dogs, etc etc.

Yours disgruntledly and flecked with rage and saliva, Brigadier Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, OBE, KFC, YMCA (ret)
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 10:15, closed)

January?
Or July...
(Jester_, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:52, closed)

Sir:
Gin is a great Leveller; indeed having consumed enough it not only levels but has a tendency to render one entirely Horizontal. You are lucky - nay, blessed - that I can even operate this Word Processor at which I sit, however in light of this you may consider my otherwise entirely reasonable and emphatically correct Diatribe edited.

Yours, etc.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:56, closed)

Haha
Nice one!

I also call this site bee-three-tee-aye. Any other way just seems wrong to me.
(Jester_, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:05, closed)