I don't know if you folks realize it but one can subscribe for about $50.00
per year to the William & Mary Quarterly Online and it is downright fun!
Almost every, if not all, issue of the Quarterly is on there and there are
some fascinating articles from the days when the Quarterly did a lot of
genealogical work. One of the issues has an article on the old
pronunciations of Virginia names and that is like a trip down memory lane! I
live in York County but I grew up in Warwick County which was and should
still be pronounced "Warrick" but newcomers (who seem to be everywhere now)
insist on saying, "Wor-WICK", which is an abomination to my ears. Old timers
in Yorktown and York County pronounce "York" like "Yawk". A few years ago I
was visiting in Yorkshire England and I was tickled to hear those people
pronounce the word "yawk". Another word that Yorkshire people say  the way I
remember it being pronounced when I was growing up was "chimney". They say
"chimley" which is how I said it until I went to school and was taught to
say it the way it is spelled. Recently I was visiting in Lynchburg and heard
a man say "Charlottesville" like "Shaw-vul". And he wasn't even very old!
Baby-boomer vintage.
Some of the names listed in the Quarterly comparing names with pronunciation
are:
Spelt:
ARMISTEAD pronounced UMSTEAD
BERKELEY.......................BARKLEY or BARTLETT
BERNARD.........................BARNETT
BROCKENBROUGH........BROKENBUROUGH
BLOUNT........................... BLUNT
BURWELL.........................BURRELL
BOOTH..............................BOWTHE
CALLOWHILL..................CARROLL
CHAMBERLAINE.............CHAUMBERLIN
CHISMAN.........................CHEESEMAN
CRENSHAW......................GRAINGER
DEGGE or DEGGES...........DIGGS
DREWRY............................DRUITT
ENROUGHTY.................... DARBY
FARRAR-FERRER..............FARR
FAUNTLEROY...................FANTILROY
FONTAINE,,.......................FOUNTIN
FULGHAM..........................FULLJUM
GEDDY................................GADDY
GILLIAM.............................GILLAM
GOODWIN..........................GOODIN
GOOCH...............................GOUGE
HAIRSTON..........................HARSTON
HEYWARD..........................HOWARD
HAUGHTON-HAWTHORNE........................HORTON
HARWOOD.........................HAROD
IRONMONGER...................MONGER
JAMES..................................JEEMES
LANGHORNE......................LANGON
LEIGH...................................LEE
MALLICOTE.......................MALICUT
MAURY...............................MURRY
MICHEAUX.........................MISHER
MONTFORD-MUNFORD...MUMFORD
PATRICK.............................PARTRICK
RANDOLPH.........................RANDALL
SEWELL-SEAWELL............SOWEL
TALIAFERRO......................TOLIVER

That's a few listed.
When I send this to the List I don't know what format it will come through
as but I did my best to line everything up clearly.

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