Featherstonehaugh
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Can someone from the UK confirm the pronunciation of that surname? I just read about it, and had trouble believing it (even after Worchestershire sauce)
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The University of Manitoba has a high voltage laboratory, which used to be named the "Fetherstonhaugh High Voltage Laboratory". I don't see any trace of it now, and it seems to be renamed after somebody else. When I was there, we either called it "the high voltage lab" or "the Fenshaw lab". The spelling is a little different from what you asked but probably has the same pronunciation. I had always thought the name was Dutch but Google seems to think (as you seem to) that it is Olde English.
-- Harvey
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'Fanshaw' is how it is pronounced :) Living in Cambridge there are two colleges that have odd spellings: Caius pronounced Keys Magdalene pronounced Maudlin I remember reading somewhere that English is a bit of a mixture between a character based spelling system(like Chinese languages) and a phonetic system which is what makes it so difficult to learn. Character based because the pronunciations of "bough, though, cough.." bear no relationship to each other despite their similarity in spelling - so one has to learn to recognise the 'shapes' of words and their corresponding pronunciation. [edit - there's no 'h' in 'Worcestershire' ;) ]
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'Fanshaw' is how it is pronounced :) Living in Cambridge there are two colleges that have odd spellings: Caius pronounced Keys Magdalene pronounced Maudlin I remember reading somewhere that English is a bit of a mixture between a character based spelling system(like Chinese languages) and a phonetic system which is what makes it so difficult to learn. Character based because the pronunciations of "bough, though, cough.." bear no relationship to each other despite their similarity in spelling - so one has to learn to recognise the 'shapes' of words and their corresponding pronunciation. [edit - there's no 'h' in 'Worcestershire' ;) ]
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GuyThiebaut wrote:
pronunciations of "bough, though, cough.." bear
Don't forget thorough, rough, borough, trough among others.
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Can someone from the UK confirm the pronunciation of that surname? I just read about it, and had trouble believing it (even after Worchestershire sauce)
-------------- TTFN - Kent
You're going to have to be a lot more specific than that I'm afraid to get a 'correct' answer. Are we talking England, Scotland, Wales or Ulster. The north, south, east or west of England, Yorkshire north or south, Somerset or Kent, this village or that one and is the name a misspelled French name, a misspelled, mispronounced Irish Gaelic word like mine or so old that it predates the Normans and derives its pronunciation from Old English. This will be the case if it's in the doomsday book. You see 'it's spelled, "Raymond Luxury Yacht," but it's pronounced, "Throat Warbler Mangrove".'
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'Fanshaw' is how it is pronounced :) Living in Cambridge there are two colleges that have odd spellings: Caius pronounced Keys Magdalene pronounced Maudlin I remember reading somewhere that English is a bit of a mixture between a character based spelling system(like Chinese languages) and a phonetic system which is what makes it so difficult to learn. Character based because the pronunciations of "bough, though, cough.." bear no relationship to each other despite their similarity in spelling - so one has to learn to recognise the 'shapes' of words and their corresponding pronunciation. [edit - there's no 'h' in 'Worcestershire' ;) ]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote:
[edit - there's no 'h' in 'Worcestershire' ;) ]
Uhm...Not a single one? :-O Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
Yes - that letter after the 's' is masquerading as an 'h' :^)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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'Fanshaw' is how it is pronounced :) Living in Cambridge there are two colleges that have odd spellings: Caius pronounced Keys Magdalene pronounced Maudlin I remember reading somewhere that English is a bit of a mixture between a character based spelling system(like Chinese languages) and a phonetic system which is what makes it so difficult to learn. Character based because the pronunciations of "bough, though, cough.." bear no relationship to each other despite their similarity in spelling - so one has to learn to recognise the 'shapes' of words and their corresponding pronunciation. [edit - there's no 'h' in 'Worcestershire' ;) ]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
Dear God, and we trusted you lot to make a decent language. ;P Good thing we weren't expecting you to create good food. Thank you.
-------------- TTFN - Kent
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It's clearly "Fan-shaw" - why would it be different?
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Indeed, no reasonable person might expect otherwise. Thanks. -------------- TTFN - Kent
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The University of Manitoba has a high voltage laboratory, which used to be named the "Fetherstonhaugh High Voltage Laboratory". I don't see any trace of it now, and it seems to be renamed after somebody else. When I was there, we either called it "the high voltage lab" or "the Fenshaw lab". The spelling is a little different from what you asked but probably has the same pronunciation. I had always thought the name was Dutch but Google seems to think (as you seem to) that it is Olde English.
-- Harvey
Ah right, I forgot about that building (although when I was going, I probably just thought it was the :erm: incorrect pronunciation. And I suppose the mangling of Lagimodiere and Dauphin by Manitobans does irritate some people. -------------- TTFN - Kent
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Can someone from the UK confirm the pronunciation of that surname? I just read about it, and had trouble believing it (even after Worchestershire sauce)
-------------- TTFN - Kent
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'Fanshaw' is how it is pronounced :) Living in Cambridge there are two colleges that have odd spellings: Caius pronounced Keys Magdalene pronounced Maudlin I remember reading somewhere that English is a bit of a mixture between a character based spelling system(like Chinese languages) and a phonetic system which is what makes it so difficult to learn. Character based because the pronunciations of "bough, though, cough.." bear no relationship to each other despite their similarity in spelling - so one has to learn to recognise the 'shapes' of words and their corresponding pronunciation. [edit - there's no 'h' in 'Worcestershire' ;) ]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
[edit - there's no 'h' in 'Worcestershire' Wink | ;) ] Oh yes there is! :laugh:
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Indeed, no reasonable person might expect otherwise. Thanks. -------------- TTFN - Kent
