Hi Josephine & Polly, How interesting ! I grew up in Bristol in the '50's and, at that time, never heard it pronounced without the T. It was always Cabot's Tower. It was only in later years that I heard it pronounced Cabo, and so assumed that some learned person had decided that Cabo was truer to the original pronunciation. (We also said that Boadicea was the person on our coins, but that's another story). Best wishes, Mike Gould Leicestershire, but born & bred in Bristol -----Original Message----- From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Josephine Jeremiah Sent: 31 January 2011 10:30 To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] Pronunciation of Cabot in Bristol On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:48:14 -0000, Polly Rubery <polly@rowberry.org> wrote: > I have never heard it pronounced with the "T" - it was always Cabo' when > I was growing up and going to school in Bristol. Thanks for this, Polly, because it was exactly what I thought! But then I did go to the same primary school as you:-) What brought about my query was that I was in Wales yesterday discussing shopping in Bristol. I said that I had never been to the Galleries in Bristol and relatives told me about the new shopping centre at Cabot Circus, which they had visited. The word Cabo' tripped off my tongue, but they said it was called Cabot with a t. So I began to wonder. Like you, I'd always pronounced Cabot without the t. I realize though, that spelling and pronunciation does change over the years. (Even the spelling of realize, which I have just used.) Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:59:12 -0000, Mike Gould <mike.gould@ndirect.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Josephine & Polly, > How interesting ! I grew up in Bristol in the '50's and, at that time, > never heard it pronounced without the T. It was always Cabot's Tower. > It was only in later years that I heard it pronounced Cabo, and so > assumed that some learned person had decided that Cabo was truer to the > original > pronunciation. Hi Mike, When I was young, Cabot Tower was prominent on our trips to Bristol and my Mum always pronounced the name Cabo'. Many years later, I discovered that she had learnt about the Cabot family during her schooldays in Bristol, in the 1920s, and I guess that her teacher had used the pronunciation Cabo', then. When Mum saw the 19th-century print of Sebastian Cabot, which is Plate 142 in my book, The Bristol Avon: A Pictorial History, she told me that she had drawn that very picture as a child. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com