[HN Gopher] Our Man in Fotheringhay
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       Our Man in Fotheringhay
        
       Author : Caiero
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-06-05 04:58 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/lsn55
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       | https://web.archive.org/web/20240605133656/https://literaryr...
        
       | OldGuyInTheClub wrote:
       | Pronounced "Fungy" with a hard 'g' if Wodehouse is to be
       | believed.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmy_in_Wonderland
        
         | gerdesj wrote:
         | That's a name that has meandered through some centuries, at
         | least two major divisions of English (off of England), a vowel
         | shift, and no doubt a lot of G&Ts.
         | 
         | I live in Somerset, which for some reason has a reputation for
         | some weird place names. It does too but no worse than the rest
         | of the country.
         | 
         | Hatch Beauchamp (Hatch Beech'um), Ryme Intrinseca (whatevs),
         | Tintinhull (Tint'nll), Crewkerne (Crook'un). Oh and there's a
         | bloody great chalk outline of a bloke with a massive club at
         | Cerne Abbas.
         | 
         | You may have heard of Glastonbury. That is pronounced in these
         | parts something like: Glasstunbree (run all the syllables
         | together, shorten all the sounds except the mildly sibilant ss
         | and trailing ee). The music festival is actually held near
         | Pilton but Glasto sounds much cooler.
        
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