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- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!nscf!wa4phy!sam
- From: sam@wa4phy (Sam Drinkard)
- Subject: Re: Funny firms/place names
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.003230.50@wa4phy>
- Organization: Unix Business Solutions
- References: <19900.2b00d356@ul.ie>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:32:30 GMT
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- mckeonj@ul.ie writes:
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- >This is prompted by the "funny law firm names" thread.
- >In Bawmuf (my native heath) there is a firm called
- >Geare & Lynk; not alas engineers but estate agents.
- >Incidentally, Bawmuf is the correct local pronunciation
- >of Bournemouth. There are a number of places whose
- >pronunciation differs from official spelling, and they
- >are not confined to Britain.
- >So lets start a list!
- >Bawmuf
- >Lester
- >Arkensaw
- >Bristle
- >Abendon
- >LaHolla
- >Caja
- >--
- One of the counties a couple or 3 to the west of me pronounced as
- "Tolliver" but spelled as
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- Tallifero.
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- sam
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