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Mousehole?
Really?
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:06, 1 reply, 16 years ago)
pronounced thus:
Mowzle

with Mow rhyming with Now
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:08, Reply)
It means mousehole though, right?

(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:11, Reply)
dunno
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousehole
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:12, Reply)
Can't be arsed to read that.
Mousehole is a phontic rendering of the Minoan word for harbour.
The Minoans - and Greeks - traded for tin roundbouts.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 14:01, Reply)
bloody Cornish
and their weird pronunciations.


says the guy who lived in Milngavie - pronounced Milguy
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 11:13, Reply)

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