Re: Kennedy

In article <MPG.1e2b099dad957d0898a27e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sam Nelson
<sam@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>C18 affectations by people whose names really were Fanshaw and Chumley.
>
>But you can't say `Connecticut' unless you do so with an American
>accent, and the first time an uninformed English person attempts to say
>`Milngavie' causes much cheap hilarity amongst Scots. The same is true
>of Cumbrians and Torpenhow (hill-hill-hill?).

If we're allowed places then there are three round me, Slaithwaite,
Linthwaite and my own village Kirkheaton pronounced locally as Slowit,
Linfit and Yeton.

Mike

--
Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange
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