"Martin Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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".
True, But when have you ever known us to stay on topic for more than a couple of posts, this one was very close to on topic, we are still talking about the same subject. -- Brian from Sunny Suffolk
