Brian wrote... >"Bru Peckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> >> For whatever reason, it's wind as in how the wind blows. >> >I have always believed that because that's what people with more knowledge >than me told me, but do we really know? >You only need to look at the Norfolk dialect to see how words get corrupted, >Maybe it did start as wind as in clock, turn the key but some old boy from >Northampton with no teeth who also winds (as in north) his clock every >Friday, told Fred from Banbury he was going to wind his boat. Truth is from >200 years ago we don't know > But David, the OP, was asking how the word is pronounced and my experience is that, whatever the word's origin, most people on the canals pronounce "wind" to rhyme with "tinned". -- Martin Clark
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