I believe we can go back as far as Edgar Hunt and
an early edition of Variety of lute lessons for
the (1958) "true rather than thou" but I haven't
looked at it since 1971 when I purchased it in
Patelson's in NY and my memory is not airtight.
If I lent it to someone, please return it BTW. It's about time.
As for whether people's names follow regular
rules of pronounciation, well, I don't believe that.
I think toad is the way go, hoho.
d
At 02:33 PM 10/3/2008, you wrote:
I remember hearing somewhere (great source!) that it may have been
pronounced "dooland", and that "dolens" would have had the same vowel (oo).
Leonard Williams
On 10/2/08 5:54 PM, "Anthony Hind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dennis, and Jurek
> Perhaps Diana Poulton assumed this from the play on Dowland/Dolens,
> ""Semper Dowland Semper Dolens"" (and isn't that the vowel sound in
> her own name?).
> However, don't forget that the diphthongs at the time of Dowland were
> undergoing the process often called the Great Vowel Shift, and that
> the degree to which this process effected vowels varied according to
> dialect.
> Thus, even if Dowland had pronounced his name like "know", it would
> certainly not be the value it has in modern standard BBC English
> (although even that is varying), and unless we know what dialect he
> spoke, we wouldn't have much idea about the value he gave that vowel.
> Furthermore, names can vary in very wild fashion, where "Mountjoy",
> for example, can rhyme with "bungee".
> Anthony
>
>
>
> Le 2 oct. 08 à 21:21, Jerzy Zak a écrit :
>
>> Diana Poulton, at whose house in London I leved for almost two
>> years, instructed me Dowland should be prnunced like Poland. How
>> she's got that knowledge I don't know.
>> Jurek
>> _______
>>
>> On 2008-10-02, at 14:53, dc wrote:
>>
>>> I suppose this question has already been asked umpteen times, but
>>> here goes
>>> again: do we know how the ow in Dowland's name was pronounced? As
>>> in know
>>> or as in how?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>
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