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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: CP Addition: Richard Pole's 1st marriage to Alice Stradling
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:17:32 +0100
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French chickens go -- "klook, klook" -- rather than "kluck, kluck" ----
as American and English chickens do.

Their tone is also somewhat more nasal.

DSH

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| Tim wrote;
|
| <snip>
| > Have you seen, by the way, Constance Poole's will of 1570? It is on
the
| > Documents on Line site of the PRO. Not very legible but she seems
to
| > have used the spelling of the visitations of much the same time.
| >
|
| That reminds me of something I heard on the radio — the great vowel
shift of
| the 14c when long "o"'s became short "o"s (honest it was not on 1st
April)
|
| de Pole (with Poole , etc.) derived its meaning from residence near a
pool or
| tidal stream from O.E. "[P][long O][L]", and this must be a case where
the
| pronunciation and spelling remained unchanged, but the spelling of pol
(that is
| the pond) became pool.
|
| Some more modern "Pools'" derive from the name Paul, which brings us
neatly
| to "Poulett", earl Poulett , etc. which I understand is pronounce
Paulett
| rather than like a French chicken (I mean "poo-lay", not the sound a
french chicken
| makes, which sound I can not spell)
|
| Now what about Mainwaring (pronounced Mannering),
Fe(a)therston(e)haugh,
| (Featherstone) Beauchamp (Beecham), Berkeley (Barkly) Er Wemyss
(Weems) Grosvenor
| (Grovenor) Er Harewood (Harwood), etc., etc., etc.
|
| Adrian

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