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Hi, Rusty!
Yes, the girl's name "Esther" is just sounded with a hard "t" - for want of a better way to express it, the "h" is silent!
And I have known an "Esther" (sounds like "Ester") in "real life"!
(Unless you have proof that the name is said differently in Scotland, I think you may have to back down gracefully on this one!)
I have just made a start on the rest of the Times 15 x 15.....
Who was Aeschylus? see clue 9A.
I know I only need the last letter..........but I just wondered who he was?

Hello, Elle,
I have no idea who Aeschylus was.
Up here we pronounce Esther with a "th".
I'll be back later.
Busy here.

Ok...........

Same as"Ruth"!

Hello, Elle!
I was listening to the wireless.
Chambers agrees with your pronunciation of Esther.
But I have met one or two Esthers and "th" was pronounced.
Maybe a local thing.
How do you pronounce "Thomas"?
Aeschylus was an old "tragedian", apparently.
How is your puzzle going?

Hi, Rusty1
What were you listening to on the radio?
News?
Or do you like to follow their plays?
I remember listening to "The Day of the Triffids" on the radio - it was a weekly serial.
Goodness, it was far more scary than watching it on the television.
That 'swishing' of the Triffids as they moved along.......!
"Thomas" is pronounced "Tomas"?
Thank you for the info on Aeschylus - I should have had to look him up had you not told me!
And that reminds me.....on a far less highbrow note (!), my book "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" has arrived today.
It is quite a thin book... I do not remember there being so little of it?
Or maybe that is in contrast to "Chesapeake".....?
My puzzle? it is going slowly...I am about a third of the way through.......
I liked 3d.
And I had to look up "stint" (11a) to check that it could be a wading bird!
At this rate, I shall be here all night!

Hello, Elle!
No, I was listening to the football on local wireless.
Some of the young ones were at the game.
We lost!
I pronounce Thomas the same as you!
Ruth, I pronounce rooth?
I can not remember the size of Miss Brodie.
Chesapeake is huge though.
You won't have met Jimmy, the blue crab, yet?
Or Onk-or, the Canada goose?
Be too soon for them.
I did not know stint, too.
I knew there was a stilt, though.
I have just ordered "Murders of the Black Museum" by Gordon Honeycombe. I think he used to read the news?
I have finished the one about Lord Lucan and the upper class.
Nary a saving grace among them!

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, "Rooth " sounds near enough"
No, I have yet to make the acquaintance of Onkor and Jimmy!
I am only at the beginning of Voyage Two, but I can already see the connection between the newly introduced characters and the ones from the previous chapter, such as Pentaquod.
I was wondering how the connection would be established.
Yes, I have heard of Gordon Honeycombe.
I feel sure that you are right and he was once a newsreader.
Although I do not personally remember him - I cannot put a face to the name?
It must have been a while ago?

Good morning, Elle.
Bit colder today!
I have investigated the pronunciation of Esther.
Seems the Ester pronunciation is to do with the translation from Hebrew?
There is Hester, too, but I do not know if they are linked.
Gordon Honeycombe was bald.
Read the News in the same era as Sandy Gall, etc.
He died in Australia several years ago.
Wrote a few books and did a bit of acting etc.

In my long-term fascination with family history, I once came across an Esther. She was variously known as Esther and Hester (in documents), though baptised Esther. I suspect his may be something to do with how people pronounce Hs. her surname was Honour, so I guess she could have been 'ester 'onour or Esther Honour! There was also a Job Honour.
Definitely "season of mists" round here. The postie is still wearing shorts, but he does run around.