At 08:20 29-09-99 -0700, Jeanette wrote: <snip> It was fun to tease the ones who want >to pronounce it "barracluff" when our parents always used a >pronunciation that rhymed with slow. > Oooooooooooooooh. I just got really excited! Mine are Yorkshire Barracloughs, like most. But there is annecdotal evidence from the 1880s of mine striding down the streets of Wilcannia, in outback New South Wales (Australia), correcting people, and insisting the pronunciation was of the "rhyme with slow" type. And we still use that pronunciation here. :) Linda Barraclough Briagolong, Victoria, Australia List Owner: BARRACLOUGH-L email: [email protected] http://www.netspace.net.au/~kapana/index.html A descendant of James Barraclough, m.1825 at Bradford to Hannah Carter