Friday, March 25, 2022
Squeamishness
P.H. Reaney, The Origin of English Surnames (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967), p. 212:
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The squeamishness which insists on spelling Rowbottom as Robathan and pronouncing it Roebotham and in pronouncing Bottom as Bot-tom and Sidebottom as Siddybottarm, also says Coburn for Cockburn, Cofield for Cockfield, Coeshot for Cockshott, Glasscoe for Glasscock, and Sandercoe for Sandercock, and has succeeded in concealing all connexion with -cock in Alcoe, Badcoe, Bayco, Hedgecoe, Hitchcoe and Simco, as in Coeshall for Coxall or Coggeshall, from Coggeshall (Ess).
