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The Featherstonehaughs, a British dance company "Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh", an episode of the TV series Nanny and the Professor.; Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge (the middle name pronounced "Fanshaw"), a fictional character in the short stories of P. G. Wodehouse.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
The name "de Wodehouse" is attested as early as in the 11th century, of one Bertram, of Wodehouse-tower, Yorkshire, who lived at the time of the Norman conquest. [1]An elaborate pedigree of the Wodehouse family of Norfolk is on record beginning with Sir David Wodehouse (b.1053) Father of Sir Constantine de Wodehouse (b.1080) -who was married to Lady Isobel Botetourt (b.1085).
Robert Graves wrote that Wodehouse had based the character of Ukridge on Graves' brother Perceval, who was one of Wodehouse's personal friends. [2] Wodehouse himself, in a letter to Perceval, denies basing Ukridge on him; he says that Ukridge was based on a man named Craxton whom William Townend, Wodehouse's friend of school days, had described to Wodehouse, and, on another man Wodehouse knew ...
Wodehouse was a prolific writer throughout his life, publishing more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974. He worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneously.
Woodhouse is an English surname.. It is of the same etymology, but to be distinguished from, the surname of the Wodehouse family of Norfolk. The family of Woodhouse of Womburne Woodhouse originates with Benedict Wodehouse of Womburne (fl. 1550); the spelling Woodhouse was used from the 17th century. [1]
How do you pronounce Kamala Harris' name right? She has been in the public eye for quite a while. And yet, her first name still trips people up.
The BBC Pronunciation Unit, also known as the BBC Pronunciation Research Unit, is an arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) comprising linguists (phoneticians) whose role is "to research and advise on the pronunciation of any words, names or phrases in any language required by anyone in the BBC". [1]