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From: Muke Tever

To: phoNet@egroups.com

Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 4:12 AM

Subject: Re: [phoNet] English by the book.

----- Original Message -----

From: "Mark Odegard" <markodegard@...>

>Quirky British realizations of place and proper names
>are are source of transpondential humor. The classic

>is how the Marquess of Cholmondeley realizes "Cholmondeley"

>('chumly'). The realization of 'Featherstonehaugh' as

>'fanshaw' is another one.

 

I've never heard 'Featherstonehaugh' pronounced; is that fans-haw or fan-shaw?

 

FAN-shaw ['fænʃɔ:], traditionally, though some of the families so named use pronunciations closer to the spelling (FEST-un-haw, FIERCED-un-haw, FEATHer-stun-haw, etc.). Anotherther quaint pronunciation employed by some of the living Featherstonehaughs is "FEACE-un-hay".

 

Piotr