Re: USAGE: [T] -> [f] (formerly ChineseDialectQuestion)

My mate Alan Helsdon (local folk musician / composer) has a whole page
devoted to limericks based on the strange pronunciations of Norfolk place
names. Some are truly terrific! Go to:
http://quanting.care4free.net/limerix.htm
Mike
> >Don't forget the wonderful personal and family name
> >"Chalmondley" /tSVmli/, from which we deduce that in British
> >English, the word "almond" is pronounced /Vm/
> >
>
> That's Cholmondley
>
>
> There was a young woman named Cholmondley
> Who mused to herself rather glolmondley:
> "Were it not my squint And my rubicund tint
> I might be considered quite colmondley."
>
> from:
> http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~ad/LimericksDir/C.html
>
> and it doesn't beat Featherstonehaugh  /f&nSO:/
>
> David Barrow

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