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From: "Brian Austin" <>
Subject: Re: Lettice Knollys
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:23:41 +0000 (UTC)
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And exactly what point am I supposed to have missed?

Brian Austin
"Nick" <> wrote in message
news:dpbrsa$2c4$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>
> "Eve McLaughlin" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> >
> >>I would imagine that the only people who know and care that Knollys is
> >>really pronounced to rhyme with bowls is the upper class strata from
which
> >>the family comes. Indeed the fact that people would know the correct
> >>pronunciation would suggest that they came from that same strata, which
> >>presumably most of us don't.
> >
> > No - this is the normal pronunciation, and sometimes appearts
> > phonetically spelled as Nowles, so any researcher needs to know the
> > fact.. It is not elitist, any more than saying Wuster for Worcester,
> > Toaster for Towcester and Lester for Leicester is.
> >
>
> OK, well then how about Featherstonehaugh, which I understand is
pronounced
> Fanshawe.
>
> But whatever we pronounce our Knollys Road to rhyme with dollies. You can
> say this is the local pronunciation or whatever, but local pronunciation
is
> valid. The person who spoke about the people in Pepys Road not pronouncing
> it like the diarist seems to have missed the point.
>
> I remember my mother saying that she once went to Theydon Bois on the
> Central London line on the London Underground. She pronounced the Bois in
> her schoolgirl French to rhyme with moi. The booking clerk looked at her
as
> though she was mad.
>
> Whatever you say, it is quite clear that the way that people pronounce
> names, and pronunciation, shows whether you are in or out of a particular
> group. It is like a slang - after all why does the Queen speak like noone
> else?
>
> Nick
>
>


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