“I’m not such an idiot as to romanticize Camden and Kentish Town… but sometimes I’ll sit out in the sunshine and sip a coffee, and I’ll see Peter go by in his pornographic swimming trunks…”
— Carl Barât in Threepenny Memoir, chapter 10.
Peter on Periscope a bit ago: They’re saying the circumflex doesn’t change the pronunciation.
Katia: Of…?
Peter: Of Barât to ba-rah
Katia: No it doesn’t
Peter: Everyone calls him BArat, baRAT… Tch, anyway-