While the pronunciation of the name of the River Nene may vary between two towns thru both of which it flows — the Nen in Northampton & the Neen in Ptbro — there is only one town of Oundle, which occupies a fixed site; and the people who live in it, & attenders at its famous school, all favour the Own- [to rime with 'down'] over the Oon- pronunciation: so surely their wishes should be paramount among the general population, howsomever some eccentrics from elsewhere may prefer to distort the name for their own inscrutable reasons.