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- From: ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod)
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- Subject: Re: Featherstonehaugh
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:16:00 GMT
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- My old copy, long since mislaid, of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (one of the
- descendants, edited by the sainted H.W. Fowler, of the original OED) gave
- "Fanshaw" as the pronunciation of "Featherstonehaugh". Times change, no
- doubt, and we [sometimes] change with them. So Philip Whitman's and Rao
- Akella's sources are both correct.
- --Ax
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