Talk:Cogenhoe

Peter Purves

He is listed as living in Cogenhoe. However, the Peter Purves article says he lives in Suffolk. Does he have two homes? Or is there a mistake somewhere? --A bit iffy 12:35, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Pronunciation

This article has for a while given the pronunciation by an ad hoc respelling in the second paragraph, and IPA /ˈkʊknoʊ/ was later added by User:Ojl. However, this blog comment, on a blog where many commenters have a thorough understanding of phonetics (but many may not, of course), respells it as "Cuckno", which suggests instead /ˈkʌknoʊ/. Which is it? I'm wondering if Ojl knows the place or was working on the basis of the respelling. I've enquired on his talk page. To be clear, the question is whether the first vowel is the one from look, book and took, or the one from luck, buck and tuck. Old Man of Storr (talk) 17:48, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

This list of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations also gives /ˈkʊknoʊ/, but again without a source. I guess the next place to ask should be Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire. Lfh (talk) 11:46, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to be slow to reply... Yes I know about it from working on an oral history project in rural Northamptonshire with Northamptonshire ACRE, but more just from having met folks since I live in the county. IMHO either phonetic spelling is valid, though /ˈkʊknoʊ/ is the better in that more people not from Cogenhoe will probably get closer to the local pronounciation than if they base their attempt on /ˈkʌknoʊ/. IPA is useful, but can't distinghuish subtleties yet distinct in the ears of indigenous folk.

North Northants dialect has the vowel in "look" somewhere between the RP for "look" and the RP for "luck". Either IPA spelling will suffice to avoid a local correcting your pronunciation, but neither will allow you to pass yourself off as one :-) Oliver Low (talk) 15:03, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

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Two Edits made on 27 March 2023

I have reverted these for four reasons:

1) Some useful information ,most if not all of it sourced was removed without explanation

2) Although the villages of Cogenhoe and Whiston are merged administratively they are visually separate and Whiston has its own article

3) A lot of the new information provided was useful and although I'm sure the editor had a source it was not given That could be reinstated if the source was cited

4) Some of the more minor changes were made for no particular reason Spinney Hill (talk) 08:15, 28 March 2023 (UTC)Spinney Hill (talk) 08:16, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Note also "stage carriage" is not the same as a "stage coach" A stage coach was horse drawn and each stage was originally usually a day without a night in an inn between stages. "stage carriage" is a way of working a bus route. Journeys within a stage (eg from one end of Cogenhoe to the other) are charged at a basic fare. Journeys of two or more stages (eg Cogenhoe to Great Billing or Northampton) are charged at a higher fare.-usually a multiple of the basic rate.