"Harrod" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as, for instance, the horse rares up; and sounding the l in would. Common enough names, too, were clipped or contracted in English fashion. Thus, the names of Norwood and Harwood became Norrod in sound and Harrod in spelling; and the name of Currier, whether with any reference or not to the French Cuir, for leather, was not long since uniformly pronounced Kiah, with the long [i]; Thurlow was strangely transformed into Thurrill; and Pierpont, often formerly spelled Pierpoint, with entire ...
— Old New England Traits • Anonymous |
