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The few in the know pronounce it rolmondeley, As rarely is a modern Meatherstone-Haugh Only, I think, a high achelvoir Perhaps a Bohun can hum a tohun, This one is very unfair to anyone who may be unfamiliar with the range of insane pronunciations traditional with many surnames in English. Most people might know that Cockburn is pronounced Coburn or Co’bn, but did you know that Marjoribanks is Marchbanks, Wavertree is Wawtree, and Caius (the Cambridge college) is Keys? Had I used the latter in the poem, I might have written: Some Cambridge scholars, if you plaius, Now solve for all names! |
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