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Rowsley - how to pronounce it?
« on: Thursday 16 November 17 13:55 GMT (UK) »
Is it Row to rhyme with sew?
or
Is it Row to rhyme with sow?
or
Something else entirely?

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Re: Rowsley - how to pronounce it?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 16 November 17 14:14 GMT (UK) »
I would pronounce it as in sow but it might not be correct  :D

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Re: Rowsley - how to pronounce it?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 16 November 17 14:57 GMT (UK) »
Don't sow and sew sound the same  :D

Or is that so and so

A search produces this result - pronounced "Roesly"

Derbyshire dialect.
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Re: Rowsley - how to pronounce it?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 16 November 17 14:59 GMT (UK) »
I would say Rowsley as in Rose.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
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WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
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Re: Rowsley - how to pronounce it?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 16 November 17 14:59 GMT (UK) »
Sow as in female pig is different, not sure how you'd write it....so row as in argument...
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Re: Rowsley - how to pronounce it?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 16 November 17 15:13 GMT (UK) »
Don't sow and sew sound the same  :D

Or is that so and so

A search produces this result - pronounced "Roesly"

Derbyshire dialect.

See what you mean, but I meant sow to rhyme with cow. 
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Re: Rowsley - how to pronounce it?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 18 November 17 15:40 GMT (UK) »
I agree with Jebber :)
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Re: Rowsley - how to pronounce it?
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 18 November 17 16:32 GMT (UK) »
Thanks peeps.  Rose-ley it is then  ;D

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