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From: "R.A. Coates" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [EPNL] Railway pronunciation?
> What, not rhyming with "currant", as I was once firmly told in Hampshire? I
> note that Forster gives "Borrunt" or the equiv.
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> --On 23 June 2004 16:40 +0100 John Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrot
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> > Boarhunt in Hampshire is still pronounced "Borrunt".
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> > John Briggs
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