--- On Fri, 27/8/10, cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com <cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: Re names. It's not unusual for Cornwall. Cornish usually puts the accent on the second syllable, e.g. 'Tre-BIL- cock'[not as 'Treblecock'] Many mis-spellings in registers & elsewhere came about because the English didn't understand this principle, coupled with place-name prefixes as in 'Tre' followed by a syllable beginning with 's', such as ' Tre-sidder - not 'Tress-idder'. There is an example of this in the message about Peter Toy & Catherine Tres-idder (not Tress-ider) . Incidentally, the Tre is with a short 'e', not pronounced as 'tree'. Stephen Treseder (pronounced 'Tre-ZED-er!) Julia wrote:   My favourite name thusfar?  "Bar-net > Gar-trell", accents on the second syllables.  It sounds > almost like "Rhett Butler"....   (now you > KNOW I've been transcribing too much this week!)<VBG> > > Best regards, > > Julia > > Julia Mosman, OPC for St.Austell,Charlestown, and Treverbyn > > > Website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell > W. Briton newspaper transcripts at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad > > Please visit the OPC website at http://cornwall-opc.org > >     >          >            >   > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the CORNISH-GEN list administrator, send an > email to > CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the CORNISH-GEN mailing list, send an > email to CORNISH-GEN@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of CORNISH-GEN Digest, Vol 5, Issue 338 > ******************************************* >

Interestingly, the name of the well-known family of nurserymen, Treseders of Truro, was always pronounced TRES-iders, with the stress, albeit incorrectly perhaps, on the first syllable. Colin Ward Truro On 27 August 2010 10:27, stephen <kernowest@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > --- On Fri, 27/8/10, cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com < > cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Re names. > It's not unusual for Cornwall. Cornish usually puts the accent on the > second syllable, e.g. 'Tre-BIL- cock'[not as 'Treblecock'] Many > mis-spellings in registers & elsewhere came about because the English didn't > understand this principle, coupled with place-name prefixes as in 'Tre' > followed by a syllable beginning with 's', such as ' Tre-sidder - not > 'Tress-idder'. > There is an example of this in the message about Peter Toy & Catherine > Tres-idder (not Tress-ider) . > > Incidentally, the Tre is with a short 'e', not pronounced as 'tree'. > Stephen Treseder (pronounced 'Tre-ZED-er!) > > Julia wrote: > > My favourite name thusfar? "Bar-net > > Gar-trell", accents on the second syllables. It sounds > > almost like "Rhett Butler".... (now you > > KNOW I've been transcribing too much this week!)<VBG> > > > > Best regards, > > > > Julia > > > > Julia Mosman, OPC for St.Austell,Charlestown, and Treverbyn > > > > > > Website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell > > W. Briton newspaper transcripts at > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad > > > > Please visit the OPC website at http://cornwall-opc.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > To contact the CORNISH-GEN list administrator, send an > > email to > > CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > > To post a message to the CORNISH-GEN mailing list, send an > > email to CORNISH-GEN@rootsweb.com. > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the > > subject and the body of the > > email with no additional text. > > > > > > End of CORNISH-GEN Digest, Vol 5, Issue 338 > > ******************************************* > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information > http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

<because the English didn't understand this principle> And still don't! Tom Thompson, St Agnes.