Re: Surname Pronunciation

Phil C. wrote:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:22:43 +0000, Andrew Sellon
<andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JJupar@xxxxxxx wrote:
You say Tomator and I say Tamarto, you say Patato and I say Potarter, lets call the whole thing off.
Which reminds me of my first (and only) visit to the USA. Having stayed with some cousins I then hired a car to make a tour of New England. Not having any maps and seeing a large AAA (the equivalent of our AA) office I went in and asked the girl at the front desk for some help. She looked at me in amazement, muttered something about waiting a minute, and disappeared.

A little time later she reappeared, accompanied by about six colleagues who all stared at me with rapturous anticipation; I found this attention from a bevy of young American beauties somewhat disconcerting, it transpired that they had all been summoned to listen to my real English accent! I obtained a plentiful supply of maps and guide books, for which there was no charge.

On a much more mundane level, I've just been eating some very nice
haslet. This led to a family discussion on pronunciation. Suvverners
present said hazlet. East Midlanders said hacelet, as did the butcher.

This whole stream of posts just describes the difficulties in noting any name or place in that time. And as result having to be flexible in searching the period. Its all as heard and then written to best knowledge. Take a surname as Vincent (pronounced the French way) and then tell me the different options to search the area this group covers. In Dutch at least one of the more extreme is Windzand.

Richard

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