Perth has a suburb called Cockburn - pronounced Coburn

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The ABC news reader became a little flustered when she said it as written - Cock Burn :grinning:

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Never drank Port

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Please explain?

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… or visited Porto in north Portugal where Port wine is made. Cockburns and yes it’s pronounced Co… is one of the British family names been operating there for centuries.

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Theres an area in Cumbria called Cockermouth,it`s very pretty too.

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Cockburn is one of many fortified wine makers in Porto who do not have Portuguese names. In fact they have distinctly English names - Cockburn, Graham, Taylor, Dow.
Next issue - what about cognac makers? Hennessey, Martell, Hind? Seems kind of Irish?
Last question - how do you pronounce these Scottish towns:
Strathaven
Strachan
Milngavie

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@Bretrick To quote an old but well viewed advert :point_down:

One doesn’t say Cock, one says Co :+1:

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Stray vn
Strawn
Mil gai

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Triple like your fluency. Especially impressed with the Strawn knowledge.

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Perth is in Scotland - obviously !!

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We had someone in school with the surname of Badcock.He insisted on pronouncing it co ,no one else did though :grinning:

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Sounds like some character from Blackadder. Ha, I’m Lord BadCock. Woof woof.

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