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nigelswift wrote: Yes VBB but how was it pronounced?? You academics spend too much time reading stuff. My home village, Claverley, is spelt that way now and right back to the Domesday book but all we bumpkins pronounced it in a totally different way, one that doesn't appear anywhere on the internet. It's almost forgotten now Even the biggies we were taught as young uns were to be pronounced differently to how they were written it seems now only the written version is used. As antiquarians we often come up against this. In Orkney they have only made a very tiny attempt recently to reverse matters, but we still have Skerrabrae as Skara Brae even though until very modern times it was also written on maps as the former. Broch of Gurness is another case in point - it started as the place Knowe of Gurness and then became the Broch of Aikerness for differentiation, which it still is in the 1930s as I read the old newspaper reports. The best example is from the Brough of Birsay - they started excavating what was known as Peterkirk and within the space of a digging season this had been 'normalised' to St.Peter's Kirk before being finally becoming English-ed as St.Peter's Church ! Reply | with quote |  20th February 2007ce 13:43 In reply to: Re: Weedon upon the Swan-eeee river, far far awaye (nigelswift) |
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