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Hi
This may be a daft question as I suppose there will be regional variations, but what is the most common pronunciation. Or if there are local 'specialities' what would be the Norfolk pronunciation?
Gotobed.
Is is pronounced Go-to-bed or Got-bd or ... something else?
Thanks
Jonathan
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I would pronounce it as most would! Go-to-bed !
apparently it is a variant of: Godbert, Godbald, Godbold, Godber. How it came to be spelt that way I have no idea!
I have to say it's almost as good as some of my ancestors who were: Goodenough's! ;)
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I would pronounce it as Go-to-bed.
Jill
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I went to infant school with a girl whose surname was Gotobed (funnily enough in Norfolk!) her family always pronounced their name Go-to-bed.
I was thinking about this girl not long ago as my daughter got a rocking horse at Christmas (purely because it was something I dreamed about having as a child!!). I can remember going to this Gotobed girl's 5th or 6th birthday party and all we did was cue up all afternoon for rides on her rocking horse!!!!
tabitha
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The GODBOLD variation is traceable to the 1080's Domesday Book - The name was listed in East Anglia and the West Country.
However, how the current ones are connected is another story.
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This is fun, Jonathan!
Sorry, that I cannot help... But, I would pronounce: "gotta-bed" or "go-da-bed" :)
Happy day to you, Donna
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This is fun, Jonathan!
Sorry, that I cannot help... But, I would pronounce: "gotta-bed" or "go-da-bed" :)
Happy day to you, Donna
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The red maple leaf is fine since 1965, but where is The Red Ensign
Let's have more variations of names
How about two actual errors for the Zelley/Zealey name
- Lilley and Cely - those two are variations to end all variations
enough to make one dizzy with excitement.
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My Gotobed ancestors were from the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire and pronounced their name Gott a bede
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I suppose Medieval scribes would write it as they heard it. Here is a Bartholomew Gotobed, of Burne, Cambs, husbandman, in 1468.
Second entry, third line
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/E4/CP40no826/bCP40no826dorses/IMG_1203.htm
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I'm from around the Cambs/Suffolk border and know a few Gotobeds and have one line in my tree.
I've always pronounced it as 'Go-tuh-bed'
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... apparently it is a variant of: Godbert, Godbald, Godbold, Godber. How it came to be spelt that way I have no idea!
Some of them may be, but certain surname reference books suggest that it was a medieval nickname with amusing connotations, like others such as Bullock or Toplady. No doubt when such allusions became less acceptable, more proper derivations were sought or dreamt up to save embarrassment.
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I didn't know the name Bullock had amusing connotations. Could you specify please?
Carol
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I didn't know the name Bullock had amusing connotations. Could you specify please?
Carol
“As a name, it most likely evolved from a nickname for an exuberant young man”
https://www.houseofnames.com/bullock-family-crest
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I didn't know the name Bullock had amusing connotations. Could you specify please?
Just try a different vowel after the B, Carol .... :o
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Oh, that. There's also the less obvious one involving the LL.
I thought you meant there was something like a slang usage, on the lines of 'Buckley's chance' or 'his name was Mudd'.
Carol
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I didn't know the name Bullock had amusing connotations. Could you specify please?
Just try a different vowel after the B, Carol .... :o
Inappropriate now as a bullock is a gelded bull.
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I know that, MS :)
Still hoping for an interesting story to help bring the name alive :(
Carol