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Originally Posted by jbjb
We'll have to agree to disagree over that one  . He's of Scottish background, and I've lived most of my life in Scotland and never heard the "Cumpton" pronunciation.
I'd also choose an Oxford dictionary's pronunciation of a British name over that from some random US-based website! Again, I suspect that "Cumpton" may be an American corruption - maybe correct in the US, but not in the UK, and not how he'd have pronounced it himself. |
"Cumpton" is not an American pronunciation. And you missed the part where I said I read the pronunciation in a
British book. As well as the inference that the point was made because it's an aberrant pronunciation.