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Will Fly	Folklore: Local place names - local pronunciation (122* d)	RE: Folklore: Local place names - local pronunciation	14 May 15
Bosham in Sussex is pronounced "BOZZ-am", but Cosham in Hampshire, just down the coast, is pronounced "COSH-am". As for Burwash - "Burrush" or "Burrish" - very similar if said quickly! :-) Going back to my Lancashire teens, Great Harwood used to be known colloquially as "Snuffy Harrod"... ... and folks from "Westhoughton" in Lancashire were known as "Hofners" - and sometimes "Cow-yeds". The latter because a farmer in Westhoughton had a cow whose head got stuck in a gate. The gate was worth more than the cow, so he cut the cow's head off to free it. By, we had a reet gradely do in them days!

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