Re: OT: Pronunciation of meagre

In message <vpmvu39v2f8luhrvrbbtrus347jhjqhv65@xxxxxxx>, Linda Fox <linda.ff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:16:12 +0100, Al Menzies <al@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I live near a place called Segensworth. The world divides neatly
between those who pronounce if Segensworth (me included) and those who
pronounce it Sejensworth. I have no idea which is correct.

Paging Mr Jilliver!

lff

As my mother used to like to say, "for every gift there is a gin" (or something like that).

Our family pronounces our name with a soft G. (I wish it had been otherwise - it would have saved me endless corrections!) My father's adoptive parents were a mining family from Nottingham.

The only other ones I've actually met pronounced it with a hard G; they run the end-of-run book and magazine stall in Chelmsford market, and were a London family.

When I looked into it - maybe 15 years or so ago? - when there were only about 15 or so of us on-line (around the world), I found that the proportion was about evens.
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