Re: Norwich/Harwich? Which wich?, puddle or Piddle


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Posted by Jock on May 29, 2005 at 12:07:31 from 84.68.121.214 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: Norwich/Harwich? Which wich? posted by John Nichols on May 16, 2005 at 16:22:07:

I was always intruiged by the Dr Foster poem,

Dr Foster went to Glouster
In a shower of rain
He stepped into a puddle
Right up to his middle
and never went there again.


I have always pronounced puddle and middle with the same sound for the u and i when I read the rhyme to my daughters, using the English u sound (Ed that would be an o-ish sound to you). So I say muddle.

Maybe the nursery puddle was the Piddle,
Now that really would go up to his middle.
A tricky ford crossing for horse and Foster,
It's on the way from Corfe to Gloucester.
While however muddy, a fall in a town puddle,
Would get the royal clothes into a right muddle.



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